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The leftist revolution has played out over the last 50 years with occasional convulsions (Roe v. Wade, Obamacare, various time bombs like the Dept. of Ed.), but it is a revolution.

It's a counterrevolution, I would say instead. It's been waged by thoroughly-domesticated East Coast urbanites who, from the 1850's to today, never ever really got a flavor for what America was, or is. They're half-American, half-European, and half-Communist. Their thinking and cultural values are dominated by the values, such as they are (Ayn Rand knew and despised them), of Atlantic coast megalopolitan "parlor pinks" who play at ideology and have no care what it costs others who are not comfortably bathed in a warm, steady stream of bond coupons, preferred-stock dividends, and tenured-faculty compensation. They're set and they're smug, while all around them other people eat all the caltrops they strew around the highway of life in the form of regulations and taxes required to make their heavily-managed "society" function the way they want it to.

They're Europeans who think they're Americans, when they're not even close, because they never ventured out of their cities to see the land and the real people who actually made it the greatest country on earth.

They're hothouse parasites, horse-stable ticks.

But they're not Real Americans.

No wonder the Communists do so well among them.

There, I said it.

They're Europeans who think they're Americans,

The Culture wars of the last half-century have nothing, nothing to do with old Europe. The Marxist/Gramschi/Kinsey revolution has just as much to do with certain kinds of American moderns as with the European scribblers of the 19th century. It is a libel against those in Spain who fought against a real Anarchist/Marxist revolution and died doing it, to associate that work of the devil with old Europe.

America, the America of our near past, did not reject greatness from other parts of the world. We appreciate Beethoven as well as Gershwin, Dostoevsky as well as Twain, Marconi as well as Edison.

Ayn Rand's Soviet-style atheism infected her soul and crippled her thinking; this Russian transplant CERTAINLY does not reflect the soul of America as she was founded.

I went to prep school in Connecticut, and I know parlour pinks and crony capitalists and those who are so shallow in their thought, they don't even know they are shallow. Those kinds have been around forever, and for all of their bad influence, it generally stayed within their own circles. Not so much anymore. Their's is the Revolution. They are not so much undermining the American Ideal as civilization and western thought itself. It is not strictly a European thing. John Dewey was one of ours.

Maybe you have a different idea of what a revolution is, but we are in the middle of one, and we are not faring well.