Le Coup pour Rien

 -- By Tom Phillips                   

The first rule of a revolution is that you need to win it; because you'll be harshly punished if you fail.  

Mao Zedong, who won the biggest revolution of the 20th Century, wrote:  “A revolution is not a tea party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery...  A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”

President Trump has been impeached for "incitement of insurrection," but it wasn't a real insurrection, and had no chance of winning.  It was just the the final episode of play-acting in a show that's been running for four years, a fantastical grand finale in which five people actually died.  Mr. Trump lives by appearances, and can't cope with realities -- e.g. the Coronavirus, or the election results.  He keeps thinking he can fix things without doing anything about them. 

This week, as he summoned a mob and sent it against Congress, he failed to understand that a show of force is not the same as actual force.  Actual force performs work, as in one class overthrowing another.  A show of force is just a photo-op.   

Viral Spring #6: Comes the Revolution

--  By Tom Phillips 

Newsweek Photo 

Somebody tell Bernie --Socialism is here.  

The White House last night said it will authorize $100 billion in emergency funds to reimburse hospitals and health care providers for treating uninsured people.   Universal health care, courtesy of the Coronavirus.  

The government is sending guaranteed income checks to everyone, and paying our medical bills.  And by the way: Immigrant farm workers, documented or not, are now classified as "essential workers" by the Department of Homeland Security. They are "critical to the food supply chain."  

Democrats could never win these battles -- the opposition was too entrenched.  So the revolution comes from the right, tinged with fascism.