Ep. 38: The Right of Revolution
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Is political violence ever justified? The question has never felt more serious in our lifetimes than it does today. The hard truth is, America was founded on political violence, and yet, our founders understood the gravity and terrible cost of their drastic actions. When is that cost worth paying? In this episode of "Young Heretics," Spencer Klavan takes up that question in light of the Capitol riot and America's founding history.
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| 0:00.0 | is political violence ever justified? |
| 0:05.0 | That is the terrible question that we are up against today. |
| 0:10.0 | It's the second of three episodes about what the heck is going on and what to do about it. |
| 0:19.0 | And I say it's a terrible question and I mean it. |
| 0:24.0 | I want to be as serious about this as I know how to be because I'm seeing a lot of people, |
| 0:34.0 | followers of mine, friends of mine saying the situation in America has gotten so bad. |
| 0:41.0 | It's time for secession, it's time for civil war. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm seeing that Biden getting in, that the problem of fraud and the election, all of this stuff |
| 0:52.0 | is making people feel like they have no way of addressing their political concerns |
| 0:57.0 | except through violent rebellion. |
| 1:01.0 | And I want to take that incredibly seriously for two reasons. |
| 1:05.0 | First of all, because I don't just want to shrug it off with this kind of blithe slogan, |
| 1:09.0 | well political violence is never justified and leave it at that. |
| 1:13.0 | But also because I really do not think that people are thinking this through. |
| 1:17.0 | I don't think they're taking this seriously enough. |
| 1:20.0 | When I say that it's a terrible question, I mean what I said last week, |
| 1:23.0 | which is that when you are asking that question seriously, |
| 1:26.0 | there has been an abject failure of the government and of the regime. |
| 1:32.0 | And I said last week that I implicated everybody in it. |
| 1:35.0 | I do not mean by that that everybody is equally culpable. |
| 1:38.0 | I don't mean like, you know, oh yeah, hashtag both sides, everybody's to blame. |
| 1:43.0 | I don't mean that at all. |
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