Professor Drier uses far too broad a brush to paint riots as purely expression
s of social discontent and anger; in fact many riots are co-opted by those who have other purposes in mind, getting even with someone or using the riot as a cover for robbery or worse. Americans accept protest as a valuable expression of discontent
, of free speech, and rally behind causes and people that espouse "heat of the moment" views, in some cases, but true social movements in others.
I do agree with Professor Drier that more civil protests are needed; not for the "social justice" causes he supports, but for the social and economic justice, the "personal freedom and personal consequenc
e, individual opportunit
y and individual achievemen
t" that Americans have long valued more, and which made this country, issuing from what the Founder's professed were the true ideals of a new nation.
Professor Drier's lambasting of Obama for not being even more "progressi
ve socialist" typically offers the liberal laments of "ideology gone bad," the true believer's pilloring of a leader "renouncin
g faith," co-opted by evil business and Conservati
ve interests in the (long-odds
) hope of getting re-elected
. In fact, Obama has a chance to be re-elected
, if there is significan
t positive change in the economy.
Absent that, Professor Drier is wailing in the wind, a prevailing wind which has changed direction and is allowing "voices in the wilderness of discontent
" to be heard, faintly at first, but growing in number and volume.
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