Any time you mention revolution, you always get the same reaction from standard liberals: oh but we're against violence. Really?

If you pay taxes, you're contributing to violence.

If you voted for Trump or Biden, you were contributing to violence. You'll probably be doing it again in November. It's not like you apologized.

Actually, the violence you're contributing to is genocidal violence. So why should anyone listen to you when you say you don't like violence?

Right now I want to bring your attention to an article by Kai Heron and Jodi Dean in "e-flux," Revolution or Ruin, because it illustrates an important dilemma in today's politics which I've been discussing elsewhere on the Internet.

Here's Jimmy Dore echoing the same sentiment, kind of.

NOTE: This rant is not to poor cold water on Fire with Fire's essay, but that what started as a comment, turned into this... ramblings of a mindless lunatic!

How can there be a constitutional crisis when neither party, nor any federal or local law enforcement, actually recognizes the constitution any more? It's absurd.

Yan Lianke's (2010) novel The Four Books is about a re-education camp in China during the Great Leap Forward.