Front and Center - the left splits in half

The coming revolution is as sure as rain.

If there is any result of the Arab spring that will capture the attention of history, is the resulting irony of revolution in the US.

Why, we ask, did the Arab spring catch like wildfire across the middle east?

Simply because people witnessed the sheer power of protest, and how truly unstoppable it is.

The only component necessary, after the full disclosure of the actual risks of such a revolution, is the level of angst to outweigh the costs.

The costs of revolution through protest, thought to be quite high, has been discovered to be much less, causing a global adjustment to the cost/benefit equation of revolution.

There is now less of a threshold, a lower necessary level of discontent necessary to tip the scale.

Does any one think, after witnessing the Arab spring, that we cannot bring down any government on earth with simple passive resistance alone? Quite clearly, we can.

So, the threshold of pain has yet to be reached in the US. But when and if it does, we will not need to take up arms against anyone. The revolution will happen at the right time, and the people will be ready to form a new government when that time is right.

I listen to the Obama Democrats, as I call them, or those who voted for Obama twice.. and what I hear astounds me.

Obama is an obvious conservative, if anyone knows what the term means in context. Not only does the left not protest his imperialist military policies, but they stand in line to worship the man. Some of these same people were student leaders protesting the Vietnam war in the 60's. Hippies into Yuppies, they abandoned their principles in the booming 90's and haven't looked back.

I have to laugh when people talk about the banks causing the housing crash. It was personal greed, for the most part. I watched it all around me at the time. People took what they could get, with little concern for the big commune. These are the hippies, now driving hybrids and eying their 401ks.

Noam Chomsky and Cornel West both talk about how the values of the 'left' changed from social welfare to the protection of personal freedoms, ie civil liberties and the like. There was a time when lifting a citizen out of poverty was the central liberal agenda, as opposed to abortion rights, global warming, labor union protection and the like.

People talk about the extreme right and their salacious ideas, but the left has shrunk so far as to only include those who participated in the Occupy movement, those who mostly protest the voting system for lack of authenticity, and a majority of despondent and apathetic give-upers who have also chosen the selfish path.

And from this motley crew, we will find the leader of the next great American revolution.