Ted Kennedy, Bernie, and history repeating itself right now

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36. The buggy makers and those whose jobs are being replaced with automation would disagree with you

The technology revolution in the end is a good thing, but to pretend that there are no losers in it and that it isn't radically disrupting our entire society is foolish.

Gandhi's revolution had that whole split with Jinnah and Pakistan that resulted in deaths estimated between 200,000 and 2,000,000 in Punjab in a religious genocide and the forced relocations of 14 million people where another 3 million people can't be accounted for in India, Pakistan or Bangladesh. Sure some migrated to other countries, but a lot of them died. And there's the fact that they still suffer from cross-border violence and ramped up their nuclear weapon programs in an attempt to intimidate the other. Clearly not a quiet little revolution.

MLK's revolution such as it was, didn't achieve many of its goals. But there was also the growth of more violent movements like the Nation of Islam. But more to the point, I would argue that the Civil Rights movement was only one stage of a much longer revolution that started at the latest with the Civil War and is still going on. MLK led a very significant portion, but you don't get to that point without Reconstruction, without WWII, without the chaos of southern lynchings. Looking at MLK in isolation doesn't even begin to cover the larger scope of the revolutionary aspects the larger civil rights movement.

Claiming the Enlightenment didn't lead to chaos ignores the direct line from that to the French Revolution which resulted in all sorts of chaos. When the head of the revolution ends up getting his head separated from his body for not being radical enough, that's chaos.