HHAddendum EP30 So, you say you want a revolution?
Added 2024-08-01 06:35:00 +0000 UTCThis show could also have been called “Violent Reflections” as Dan repurposes old work he did on the revolutionary era of the late 1960s. This is NOT a deep HH-style look at the period, but is instead a brief gaze at a potential “Past is Prologue” moment.
Keywords: 1960s, 1970s, revolution, New Left, politics, Nixon, Vietnam, protests, counterculture, riots, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Black Panthers, Weathermen, radicalism, Lyndon Johnson, peace movement, Civil Rights
Show Notes:
1. A Timeline of 1968: The Year That Shattered America
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/timeline-seismic-180967503/
2. “Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence” by Bryan Burrough
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As a center-right fella, I see very often any criticism of the current administration as having to have come from some leftist ideology. The current party is so detached from republicanism and has been trampling over countless federalist ideals in it'squest for centralization. It is defined by demagoguery, contradiction, and fear. That is not republican ideology, those are means of disrupting a democracy and centralizing power. Contradiction is a big one. It guts the power of the party, as no one can say anything for certain and creates a follow-the-leader dynamic.
SloppyxxCorn
2025-09-09 16:18:23 +0000 UTCHi Dan, I supported Trump in the most recent election, but I know you're not a fan. I believe it's critically important to balance one's political perspectives by listening to the opinion of folks across the political spectrum. Your moderate center-left assessment of the culture in Common Sense is greatly missed. Here's to hoping you'll take it up again soon!
Forrest Barfield
2024-12-13 12:40:39 +0000 UTCDan you should sign up for blue sky. A bunch of people were asking if you were there
chris playo
2024-11-17 16:12:53 +0000 UTCCome on to TYT. Please do an episode on Old School just Dan Carlin and Cenk Uygur. Common Sense meets the progressive movement. Love your show. I think we need a third party in The House in order to avoid Abe Lincoln's warning of what could happen to divided houses. Justice For All Party 2026
Sal
2024-09-14 17:40:58 +0000 UTCWhat I took from the intro was that we’re not able study the history of dictators to develop principles we can apply to today’s dictators. Dan, curious your thoughts on Ayn Rand’s “The Roots of War” essay? She has a way of finding the essential properties of a dictator.
Gene
2024-08-03 02:10:36 +0000 UTCThank you Dan
Jesse Grivois
2024-08-02 22:56:57 +0000 UTC