“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – Flopping Aces

In March of 1962 JFK observed that “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”  Sixty years later his words resonate.

We are seeing the foundations laid for a revolution.  Whether that revolution is peaceful or violent remains to be seen.  With virtually every society over time power becomes accumulated into the hands of the few elites.  Those elites in turn run the nation as their personal fiefdoms where they utilize the machinery of the state to enrich themselves, accumulate power and use trifles to appease the exponentially larger population of serfs they rule over.

This reality applies to monarchies, to Communist tyrannies, to “democracies”, theocracies and even, as we’re coming to discover, republics.  It doesn’t have anything to do with economics either as it occurs in capitalist states, socialist states, Communist states and mercantile states.  The only difference is how long it takes for the structure to collapse. It took the Roman Republic 500 years to collapse, the French monarchy 1,000 years, the Soviet Union 70 years and the EU is shaky after just 30 years.  The American Republic finds itself on a precipice of collapse after less than 250 years.

Here, we’re seeing it unfold right in front of us.

There is perhaps no better example of the disconnect between the ruling elites that last month’s utterance from the clown who runs the GOP in the Senate, Mitch McConnell.