S1 E0 Trailer The Peaceful Political Revolution in America

Hi and welcome to the Peaceful political Revolution in America podcast. I'm your host, John Mulkins.

If you were following the presidential election of 2020 as I was, you will most likely recall the phrase "political revolution."  It was popularized by Bernie Sanders and it became synonymous with his campaign.  Bernie didn't win the nomination of course, and it appears that his aspirations for a political revolution have been more or less restrained, so if you're like me you're wondering what will happen to Bernie's call for political revolution?

I have been informally studying the history of our constitution for the past 15 years I have been reading about people like Thomas Payne and James Madison George Washington Thomas Jefferson and James Wilson I've read quite a few good books on the topic of constitutions I've read democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville.  I have also had the great pleasure to correspond on occasion with some of our nations top constitutional scholars  activists and political scientists, and one thing has really stuck out to me.  Although everyone I spoke to agreed on the basic history of our constitution something was being avoided.  There was a ghost in the room, and no one wanted to talk about it. I wondered, how could it be that these experts did not want to acknowledge something so obvious.  It was as if the ghost in the room made them all speechless, it had become taboo.  So I thought it would be very timely and important to share with you what I happen to be seeing and why it was so mysteriously invisible to everyone else.

It's actually one of the most important things you probably don't know about revolutions and it might just didn't power you to change the world.  It turns out peaceful political revolution is the actual basis of our form of government.  You may recall a certain convention in 1787.  It was followed by a national debate. That was followed by a series of conventions, where representatives of the people voted on the question of whether or not to adopt the new Constitution. Our ancestors changed their political system of government in 1788.  They did it using their words and their pens, and it was the first peaceful political revolution in the world.  The question we may all have to soon answer is, will it be our last?