John Pavlovitz: A Revolution of Nothing

[ARPad95]

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2021/01/10/a-nothing-revolution/

Here's an excerpt from John Pavlovitz's excellent blog:

But the question decent Americans are asking today is the same one we were asking on January 6th, the same one we’ve been asking since November of 2016:

a revolution of what?

What precisely were they overthrowing?
What exactly were they protesting?
How specifically had this nation so grievously wronged them?

As critical as those questions are, they are a fruitless endeavor, because the truth of the matter is—they would not be capable of a response.

This was a nothing revolution: an empty display of cheap anger formed in staggering privilege, made of fake oppression, inflamed by a massive lie—and directed toward a man who fully embodies them: one who has had everything in this life handed to him and is perpetually outraged when he cannot have more.

[czarjak]

1. Work hard and play by the rules and you can be successful in America...

Fool-proof.

[Quixote1818]

2. Pretty simple. Yep. nt

[bullimiami]

3. This is exactly what I've been wondering. The Civil War had slavery. An actual serous schism.

WTF is this even about?