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May 16, 2006
Gandhi's famous four-step description of a movement's process to power
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
SusanG over at Daily Kos did an interesting write up about the failing and collapsing Republican revolution today. I always enjoy Gandhi quotes, but she took a different spin on it that I had ever considered. She attempted to apply it to the Republican Revolution. Which on the surface is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, what good is a theory if it doesn't work to explain all instances of a situation. She got in trouble as she tried to explain why the Republican collapse was happening and I think I've got a better way to explain it. It's actually very simple...any revolution based on immoral objectives will not follow the path that Gandhi laid out. The Netroots for example, is a moral revolution and as we see it's heading through the states just as Gandhi would predict. But immoral revolutions, those whose only objective is the oppression and destruction of other human beings can never last. It's just the nature of such vile behavior, something deep down inside the human condition will resist it, even if it takes generations and rise up to defeat it. It's just something in our genetic code that makes us able to realize inequity and injustice, we can be taught to ignore the goodness within our own souls, but the reality is that you can never stamp it out no matter how evil you are or how hard you try. Our own humanity will resurface and we will right the wrongs of the past, which is why these kinds of "revolutions" do not follow the rules of a moral revolution. They are doomed to fail from the moment they are started. It's only the fools that follow them that don't have that realization.
Read more over at Daily Kos.
Posted by ManDrake at May 16, 2006 3:47 PM
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