The French Revenge

[PoliticalChic]

No, not syphilis, the scourge of the 15th century, ‘The French Disease,’ as it was once called. But three centuries later, in the late 18th century…..that fateful revolution that was an attack on morality and monotheism. And not only did the Bolsheviks see it as their model….but we are seeing its effects on our streets today.




1.It took nearly two and a quarter centuries to convince large numbers of our population to abandon the values that made our civilization so great. But….

…truth be told, there was reason behind it, note that infamous comment attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an example of Marie-Antoinette’s obliviousness to the conditions and daily lives of ordinary people.” Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?

Yet, with all those geniuses behind the movement, Rousseau, Diderot, et al, shouldn’t they have intuited that it would get out of control, and presage the end of Western Civilization. Call me Jerimiah, but I say that that is exactly were we are today: looking the abyss in the face.



2. “If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century.

In fact, Rousseau has been called the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror

In a few short years, three millennia was dismantled…..leaving us with the remnants, ANTIFA, BLM, the Democrat Party.



3. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



They say that within each of us we carry the seeds or our own destruction, based on our choices.

Seems the same is true of entire cultures, and societies.

And the French Revolution was one of those seeds.

 

[bluzman61]

No, not syphilis, the scourge of the 15th century, ‘The French Disease,’ as it was once called. But three centuries later, in the late 18th century…..that fateful revolution that was an attack on morality and monotheism. And not only did the Bolsheviks see it as their model….but we are seeing its effects on our streets today.




1.It took nearly two and a quarter centuries to convince large numbers of our population to abandon the values that made our civilization so great. But….

…truth be told, there was reason behind it, note that infamous comment attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an example of Marie-Antoinette’s obliviousness to the conditions and daily lives of ordinary people.” Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?

Yet, with all those geniuses behind the movement, Rousseau, Diderot, et al, shouldn’t they have intuited that it would get out of control, and presage the end of Western Civilization. Call me Jerimiah, but I say that that is exactly were we are today: looking the abyss in the face.



2. “If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century.

In fact, Rousseau has been called the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror

View attachment 381084

In a few short years, three millennia was dismantled…..leaving us with the remnants, ANTIFA, BLM, the Democrat Party.



3. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



They say that within each of us we carry the seeds or our own destruction, based on our choices.

Seems the same is true of entire cultures, and societies.

And the French Revolution was one of those seeds.

Thank you for another fantastic post, PC. Nicely done.

 

[PoliticalChic]

4. The Enlightenment, so optimistically named, was a fork in the road for humanity. One side of that fork, based on the ideas that God created every human in His image and human beings are able to investigate and make rational conclusions about the world. But another side that was based solely on mankind making itself god and relying on his own judgement. A sad mistake.



5. The mistake should have been seen early on, as the first side gave us the American Revolution, and the second, the slaughterhouse of the French version.

“The juxtaposition between the American Revolution and the French Revolution demonstrates the contrast btween the strains of Enlightenment thinking. The American Revolution, based on Lockean principles regarding the God-given rights of individuals, the value of social virtue, and a state system created to preserve inalienable individual rights, broke sharply with the French Revolution, based on Rousseau’s ‘general will,’ Voltaire’s scorn for traditional virtue, and an optimistic sense of the perfectibility of mankind through the application of virtue-free reason.”
Ben Shapiro, “The Right Side Of History,” p. 122



6. Although attributed to Rousseau, it was Diderot who gave the model for totalitarianism of reason: “We must reason about all things,” and anyone who ‘refuses to seek out the truth’ thereby renounces his human nature and “should be treated by the rest of his species as a wild beast.” So, once ‘truth’ is determined, anyone who doesn’t accept it was “either insane or wicked and morally evil.” It is not the individual who has the “ right to decide about the nature of right and wrong,” but only “the human race,” expressed as the general will. Himmelfarb, “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68



Disagree....and the consequence is death. Such is the view of every totalitarian regime.
Here's one version:

"Black Lives Matter protesters stand over diners at DC restaurant demanding they show solidarity"

BLM protesters stand over diners at DC restaurant demanding solidarity

<p>Video of a furious contretemps outside a Washington eatery has fuelled an already acrimonious row over what constitutes reasonable protest</p>

www.independent.co.uk

 

[bluzman61]

4. The Enlightenment, so optimistically named, was a fork in the road for humanity. One side of that fork, based on the ideas that God created every human in His image and human beings are able to investigate and make rational conclusions about the world. But another side that was based solely on mankind making itself god and relying on his own judgement. A sad mistake.



5. The mistake should have been seen early on, as the first side gave us the American Revolution, and the second, the slaughterhouse of the French version.

“The juxtaposition between the American Revolution and the French Revolution demonstrates the contrast btween the strains of Enlightenment thinking. The American Revolution, based on Lockean principles regarding the God-given rights of individuals, the value of social virtue, and a state system created to preserve inalienable individual rights, broke sharply with the French Revolution, based on Rousseau’s ‘general will,’ Voltaire’s scorn for traditional virtue, and an optimistic sense of the perfectibility of mankind through the application of virtue-free reason.”
Ben Shapiro, “The Right Side Of History,” p. 122



6. Although attributed to Rousseau, it was Diderot who gave the model for totalitarianism of reason: “We must reason about all things,” and anyone who ‘refuses to seek out the truth’ thereby renounces his human nature and “should be treated by the rest of his species as a wild beast.” So, once ‘truth’ is determined, anyone who doesn’t accept it was “either insane or wicked and morally evil.” It is not the individual who has the “ right to decide about the nature of right and wrong,” but only “the human race,” expressed as the general will. Himmelfarb, “The Roads to Modernity,” p. 167-68



Disagree....and the consequence is death. Such is the view of every totalitarian regime.
Here's one version:

"Black Lives Matter protesters stand over diners at DC restaurant demanding they show solidarity"

BLM protesters stand over diners at DC restaurant demanding solidarity

<p>Video of a furious contretemps outside a Washington eatery has fuelled an already acrimonious row over what constitutes reasonable protest</p>

www.independent.co.uk

Thanks for another fine post, PC.

 

[alang1216]

No, not syphilis, the scourge of the 15th century, ‘The French Disease,’ as it was once called. But three centuries later, in the late 18th century…..that fateful revolution that was an attack on morality and monotheism. And not only did the Bolsheviks see it as their model….but we are seeing its effects on our streets today.




1.It took nearly two and a quarter centuries to convince large numbers of our population to abandon the values that made our civilization so great. But….

…truth be told, there was reason behind it, note that infamous comment attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an example of Marie-Antoinette’s obliviousness to the conditions and daily lives of ordinary people.” Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?

Yet, with all those geniuses behind the movement, Rousseau, Diderot, et al, shouldn’t they have intuited that it would get out of control, and presage the end of Western Civilization. Call me Jerimiah, but I say that that is exactly were we are today: looking the abyss in the face.



2. “If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century.

In fact, Rousseau has been called the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror

View attachment 381084

In a few short years, three millennia was dismantled…..leaving us with the remnants, ANTIFA, BLM, the Democrat Party.



3. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



They say that within each of us we carry the seeds or our own destruction, based on our choices.

Seems the same is true of entire cultures, and societies.

And the French Revolution was one of those seeds.

In short the people of France protested what they saw as an unfair distribution of wealth and political power being held by a small minority. The protests were met with violence by the existing powers and what resulted was a long period of revolution, anarchy, and violence. A cautionary tale for us today: listen to the protesters while you still can.

 

[alang1216]

The American Revolution, based on Lockean principles regarding the God-given rights of individuals, the value of social virtue, and a state system created to preserve inalienable individual rights

Unfortunately not all individuals were included. The result was decades of continued slavery, a Civil War, a painful reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement. Maybe the lesson is that EVERYONE needs to be included if the country is to move forward and lots of people in this country do not feel they are included.

 

[PoliticalChic]

No, not syphilis, the scourge of the 15th century, ‘The French Disease,’ as it was once called. But three centuries later, in the late 18th century…..that fateful revolution that was an attack on morality and monotheism. And not only did the Bolsheviks see it as their model….but we are seeing its effects on our streets today.




1.It took nearly two and a quarter centuries to convince large numbers of our population to abandon the values that made our civilization so great. But….

…truth be told, there was reason behind it, note that infamous comment attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an example of Marie-Antoinette’s obliviousness to the conditions and daily lives of ordinary people.” Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?

Yet, with all those geniuses behind the movement, Rousseau, Diderot, et al, shouldn’t they have intuited that it would get out of control, and presage the end of Western Civilization. Call me Jerimiah, but I say that that is exactly were we are today: looking the abyss in the face.



2. “If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century.

In fact, Rousseau has been called the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror

View attachment 381084

In a few short years, three millennia was dismantled…..leaving us with the remnants, ANTIFA, BLM, the Democrat Party.



3. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



They say that within each of us we carry the seeds or our own destruction, based on our choices.

Seems the same is true of entire cultures, and societies.

And the French Revolution was one of those seeds.

In short the people of France protested what they saw as an unfair distribution of wealth and political power being held by a small minority. The protests were met with violence by the existing powers and what resulted was a long period of revolution, anarchy, and violence. A cautionary tale for us today: listen to the protesters while you still can.

"The protests were met with violence by the existing powers ..."


No they weren't.

I know you're not lying....you're just ignorant, and uneducated......the usual government school grad.

When the mob stormed the Tuileries, the weak King Louis XVI, a kind of David Dinkins of kings, actually ordered his Swiss guards who were defending him to surrender. (This strategy, known as “unilateral surrender” would later become the cornerstone of the Democratic Party’s national security policies). Of course, upon surrender, the mob massacred over 600 of the guards, ripped them to shreds and mutilated their corpses, and marched around with their heads on pikes.
Coulter

. “What followed was a scene of tremendous butchery. More than two thirds of the Swiss Guard were slaughtered, many of them hacked to death by axe-wielding sans culottes. Heads were removed and displayed on pikes or kicked around for sport. Body parts were dismembered and waved around, then fed to dogs. Hordes of women from the city’s underclass followed behind the advancing soldiers, stripping the corpses of Swiss Guardsmen of their uniforms and belongings, scything off the genitals and stuffing them into their mouths."
The attack on the Tuileries



Three days after the completion of The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, the mob stormed the Bastille, and marched around with the head of the prison’s commander, Marquis de Launay, on a pike. Shortly, the greatest nation in continental Europe became a human abattoir.




This is what happens when constituted authority bows to the savage revolutionaries.....Minneapolis, Portland, Kenosha.....

 

[PoliticalChic]

The American Revolution, based on Lockean principles regarding the God-given rights of individuals, the value of social virtue, and a state system created to preserve inalienable individual rights

Unfortunately not all individuals were included. The result was decades of continued slavery, a Civil War, a painful reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement. Maybe the lesson is that EVERYONE needs to be included if the country is to move forward and lots of people in this country do not feel they are included.

And herein we find proof of the difference between Liberals and conservatives.

Liberals are impulsive, and imprudent. They believe in quick changes, and risk new abuses worse than the ‘evils’ that they would sweep away, since remedies are usually not simple. Plato said that prudence is the mark of the statesman. There should be a balance between permanence and change, while liberals see ‘progress’ as some mythical direction for society.




The difference is the difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. They meant to do good: free mankind from the oppression of Le Rouge et le Noir- the red and the black, royalty and the church. But they went way overboard: by any means necessary. Including slaughter.



The French Revolution is identified by the Great Fear, the storming of the Bastille, the food riots, the march on Versailles, the Day of the Daggers, the de-Christianization campaign, the September Massacres, the beheading of Louis XVI, the beheading of Marie Antoinette, the Reign of Terror, then the guillotining of one revolutionary after another, until Robespierre got the “national razor.” That is, not including various lynchings, assassinations, insurrections….this was the four-year period known as the French Revolution.
The rabble, led by the Jacobins proceeded to smash every trace of the past- religion, law, the social order, even the weights and measures system, and even the calendar.


The excesses, and thousands upon thousands of deaths and mutilations take no back seat to the Russian revolution, or Mao’s mayhem.



This was not a revolution that was likely to end, as the American Revolution did, with the motto “Annuit Coepis” (He [God] has favored our undertakings) on its national seal.

 

[Sunni Man]

PoliticalChic has really outdone herself with these posts.
Well researched and on target.
Some of her best work. ...

 

[alang1216]

The American Revolution, based on Lockean principles regarding the God-given rights of individuals, the value of social virtue, and a state system created to preserve inalienable individual rights

Unfortunately not all individuals were included. The result was decades of continued slavery, a Civil War, a painful reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement. Maybe the lesson is that EVERYONE needs to be included if the country is to move forward and lots of people in this country do not feel they are included.

And herein we find proof of the difference between Liberals and conservatives.

Liberals are impulsive, and imprudent. They believe in quick changes, and risk new abuses worse than the ‘evils’ that they would sweep away, since remedies are usually not simple. Plato said that prudence is the mark of the statesman. There should be a balance between permanence and change, while liberals see ‘progress’ as some mythical direction for society.




The difference is the difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

How many generations must wait patiently for their freedom? Is 200 years too long?

 

[alang1216]

No, not syphilis, the scourge of the 15th century, ‘The French Disease,’ as it was once called. But three centuries later, in the late 18th century…..that fateful revolution that was an attack on morality and monotheism. And not only did the Bolsheviks see it as their model….but we are seeing its effects on our streets today.




1.It took nearly two and a quarter centuries to convince large numbers of our population to abandon the values that made our civilization so great. But….

…truth be told, there was reason behind it, note that infamous comment attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an example of Marie-Antoinette’s obliviousness to the conditions and daily lives of ordinary people.” Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?

Yet, with all those geniuses behind the movement, Rousseau, Diderot, et al, shouldn’t they have intuited that it would get out of control, and presage the end of Western Civilization. Call me Jerimiah, but I say that that is exactly were we are today: looking the abyss in the face.



2. “If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century.

In fact, Rousseau has been called the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror

View attachment 381084

In a few short years, three millennia was dismantled…..leaving us with the remnants, ANTIFA, BLM, the Democrat Party.



3. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



They say that within each of us we carry the seeds or our own destruction, based on our choices.

Seems the same is true of entire cultures, and societies.

And the French Revolution was one of those seeds.

In short the people of France protested what they saw as an unfair distribution of wealth and political power being held by a small minority. The protests were met with violence by the existing powers and what resulted was a long period of revolution, anarchy, and violence. A cautionary tale for us today: listen to the protesters while you still can.

"The protests were met with violence by the existing powers ..."


No they weren't.

I know you're not lying....you're just ignorant, and uneducated......the usual government school grad.

When the mob stormed the Tuileries, the weak King Louis XVI, a kind of David Dinkins of kings, actually ordered his Swiss guards who were defending him to surrender. (This strategy, known as “unilateral surrender” would later become the cornerstone of the Democratic Party’s national security policies). Of course, upon surrender, the mob massacred over 600 of the guards, ripped them to shreds and mutilated their corpses, and marched around with their heads on pikes.
Coulter

. “What followed was a scene of tremendous butchery. More than two thirds of the Swiss Guard were slaughtered, many of them hacked to death by axe-wielding sans culottes. Heads were removed and displayed on pikes or kicked around for sport. Body parts were dismembered and waved around, then fed to dogs. Hordes of women from the city’s underclass followed behind the advancing soldiers, stripping the corpses of Swiss Guardsmen of their uniforms and belongings, scything off the genitals and stuffing them into their mouths."
The attack on the Tuileries



Three days after the completion of The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, the mob stormed the Bastille, and marched around with the head of the prison’s commander, Marquis de Launay, on a pike. Shortly, the greatest nation in continental Europe became a human abattoir.




This is what happens when constituted authority bows to the savage revolutionaries.....Minneapolis, Portland, Kenosha.....

How many different governments ruled France from 1789 to Napoleon?

 

[PoliticalChic]

No, not syphilis, the scourge of the 15th century, ‘The French Disease,’ as it was once called. But three centuries later, in the late 18th century…..that fateful revolution that was an attack on morality and monotheism. And not only did the Bolsheviks see it as their model….but we are seeing its effects on our streets today.




1.It took nearly two and a quarter centuries to convince large numbers of our population to abandon the values that made our civilization so great. But….

…truth be told, there was reason behind it, note that infamous comment attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an example of Marie-Antoinette’s obliviousness to the conditions and daily lives of ordinary people.” Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?

Yet, with all those geniuses behind the movement, Rousseau, Diderot, et al, shouldn’t they have intuited that it would get out of control, and presage the end of Western Civilization. Call me Jerimiah, but I say that that is exactly were we are today: looking the abyss in the face.



2. “If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century.

In fact, Rousseau has been called the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror

View attachment 381084

In a few short years, three millennia was dismantled…..leaving us with the remnants, ANTIFA, BLM, the Democrat Party.



3. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



They say that within each of us we carry the seeds or our own destruction, based on our choices.

Seems the same is true of entire cultures, and societies.

And the French Revolution was one of those seeds.

In short the people of France protested what they saw as an unfair distribution of wealth and political power being held by a small minority. The protests were met with violence by the existing powers and what resulted was a long period of revolution, anarchy, and violence. A cautionary tale for us today: listen to the protesters while you still can.

"The protests were met with violence by the existing powers ..."


No they weren't.

I know you're not lying....you're just ignorant, and uneducated......the usual government school grad.

When the mob stormed the Tuileries, the weak King Louis XVI, a kind of David Dinkins of kings, actually ordered his Swiss guards who were defending him to surrender. (This strategy, known as “unilateral surrender” would later become the cornerstone of the Democratic Party’s national security policies). Of course, upon surrender, the mob massacred over 600 of the guards, ripped them to shreds and mutilated their corpses, and marched around with their heads on pikes.
Coulter

. “What followed was a scene of tremendous butchery. More than two thirds of the Swiss Guard were slaughtered, many of them hacked to death by axe-wielding sans culottes. Heads were removed and displayed on pikes or kicked around for sport. Body parts were dismembered and waved around, then fed to dogs. Hordes of women from the city’s underclass followed behind the advancing soldiers, stripping the corpses of Swiss Guardsmen of their uniforms and belongings, scything off the genitals and stuffing them into their mouths."
The attack on the Tuileries



Three days after the completion of The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, the mob stormed the Bastille, and marched around with the head of the prison’s commander, Marquis de Launay, on a pike. Shortly, the greatest nation in continental Europe became a human abattoir.




This is what happens when constituted authority bows to the savage revolutionaries.....Minneapolis, Portland, Kenosha.....

How many different governments ruled France from 1789 to Napoleon?

Did you wish to thank me for the educational lacunae of yours that I fill in?

 

[PoliticalChic]

The American Revolution, based on Lockean principles regarding the God-given rights of individuals, the value of social virtue, and a state system created to preserve inalienable individual rights

Unfortunately not all individuals were included. The result was decades of continued slavery, a Civil War, a painful reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement. Maybe the lesson is that EVERYONE needs to be included if the country is to move forward and lots of people in this country do not feel they are included.

And herein we find proof of the difference between Liberals and conservatives.

Liberals are impulsive, and imprudent. They believe in quick changes, and risk new abuses worse than the ‘evils’ that they would sweep away, since remedies are usually not simple. Plato said that prudence is the mark of the statesman. There should be a balance between permanence and change, while liberals see ‘progress’ as some mythical direction for society.




The difference is the difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

How many generations must wait patiently for their freedom? Is 200 years too long?

"How many generations must wait patiently for their freedom? Is 200 years too long?"


Better ask the Democrat Party....

1.Doubling down on their support for slavery and segregation, the Democrat Party blocked every anti-lynching to come to the Senate.

2. Dragging their feet on post-war freedom for their slaves, they imposed poll taxes and Jim Crow laws.

3. The Obama ‘Promise Program’ made it almost impossible to remove thugs and criminals from ghetto schools, to make certain that learning was impeded.

4. Authored gun laws that only law abiding citizens would obey, preventing black citizens in crime ridden neighborhood from protecting themselves.

5. Promoted bogus anti-police hatred, while ignoring some 350,000 blacks killed by lawless blacks. 324,000 U.S. Blacks Killed by Blacks In Only 35 Years

6. In nearing a century of Democrat welfare, blacks remain as the lowest income racial group.

7. Allied with the International Left, the Democrat party makes certain that racial animosity never dies down.

8. The Democrats made and make certain that religion and morality is barred from the schools and from the public arena. “…will America be made better by curbing religion in the name of secularism, of vice versa?” Ben Shapiro


9. The Democrat judicial system is based on the idea that all blacks are felons, so felons must be released from jails. Carter-appointed judge Norma Shapiro “ is one of the worst offenders among that influential cadre of federal judges who have substituted the ACLU's prisoners' rights wish list for the Bill of Rights and have trifled with public safety concerns. …” In 1992, black youths were nine times more likely to be murdered than white youths. Democrats lied, kids died.

10. But wait…..they did manage to ban one single word from common parlance.

 

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8. With the Jacobins in control of that revolution, the “de-Christianization” campaign kicked into high gear. Inspired by Rousseau’s idea of the religion civile, the revolution sought to completely destroy Christianity and replace it with a religion of the state. To honor “reason” and fulfill the promise of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen that “no one may be questioned about his opinions, including his religious views,” Catholic priests were forced to stand before the revolutionary clubs and take oaths to France’s new humanocentric religion, the Cult of Reason (which is French for ‘People for the American Way’…Coulter).



"The Cult of Reason (French: Culte de la Raison)a was an atheistic belief system established in France and intended as a replacement for Christianity during the French Revolution."
Cult of Reason - Wikipedia



Joseph Fouché, head of the de-Christianization, arranged for the “bankers, scholars, aristocrats, priests, nuns, wealthy merchants, their wives, mistresses and children” to be dragged from their homes and killed by firing squads. He then wrote that Christianity in the provinces “had been struck down once and for all.”



In Lyon, the archbishop refused to swear allegiance to the republic, and was removed, replaced by the revolutionary bishop Antoine Lamourette. But the people of Lyon responded by clinging to their guns and religion. So, the Convention ordered that Lyon, the second-largest city in France, be destroyed and a monument erected on the ashes proclaiming: “Lyon waged war against liberty; Lyon is no more.”
From “Demonic,” by Coulter.



You can see the mirror image in the neo-Marxism that has infected our culture.

 

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No, not syphilis, the scourge of the 15th century, ‘The French Disease,’ as it was once called. But three centuries later, in the late 18th century…..that fateful revolution that was an attack on morality and monotheism. And not only did the Bolsheviks see it as their model….but we are seeing its effects on our streets today.




1.It took nearly two and a quarter centuries to convince large numbers of our population to abandon the values that made our civilization so great. But….

…truth be told, there was reason behind it, note that infamous comment attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an example of Marie-Antoinette’s obliviousness to the conditions and daily lives of ordinary people.” Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?

Yet, with all those geniuses behind the movement, Rousseau, Diderot, et al, shouldn’t they have intuited that it would get out of control, and presage the end of Western Civilization. Call me Jerimiah, but I say that that is exactly were we are today: looking the abyss in the face.



2. “If the French revolution was the end of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and the emergence of the common man and democratic rights, it was also the beginnings of modern totalitarian government and large-scale executions of "enemies of the People" by impersonal government entities (Robespierre's "Committee of Public Safety"). This legacy would not reach its fullest bloom until the tragic arrival of the German Nazis and Soviet and Chinese communists of the 20th century.

In fact, Rousseau has been called the precursor of the modern pseudo-democrats such as Stalin and Hitler and the "people's democracies." French Revolution - Robespierre, and the Legacy of the Reign of Terror

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In a few short years, three millennia was dismantled…..leaving us with the remnants, ANTIFA, BLM, the Democrat Party.



3. This is what we had within our grasp: Compared to an earlier time, mothers and their children can expect to survive childbirth, and their children live another eight decades. Almost every American lives in a climate-controlled home with food and a TV. They have a car, refrig, microwave, and a cell phone. We have computers with internet, buy products from all over the globe, and cheaply, at that. None will be enslaved, few murdered, and free to have unpopular views or lifestyles. You can worship as you wish, or not at all. There is no institutional racism, and no governmental requirement to have or not have children. There is no aristocracy, no perennial wealth class, and most will die richer than when they were born. Western Civilization, here, and promised to the whole world.



They say that within each of us we carry the seeds or our own destruction, based on our choices.

Seems the same is true of entire cultures, and societies.

And the French Revolution was one of those seeds.

In short the people of France protested what they saw as an unfair distribution of wealth and political power being held by a small minority. The protests were met with violence by the existing powers and what resulted was a long period of revolution, anarchy, and violence. A cautionary tale for us today: listen to the protesters while you still can.

"The protests were met with violence by the existing powers ..."


No they weren't.

I know you're not lying....you're just ignorant, and uneducated......the usual government school grad.

When the mob stormed the Tuileries, the weak King Louis XVI, a kind of David Dinkins of kings, actually ordered his Swiss guards who were defending him to surrender. (This strategy, known as “unilateral surrender” would later become the cornerstone of the Democratic Party’s national security policies). Of course, upon surrender, the mob massacred over 600 of the guards, ripped them to shreds and mutilated their corpses, and marched around with their heads on pikes.
Coulter

. “What followed was a scene of tremendous butchery. More than two thirds of the Swiss Guard were slaughtered, many of them hacked to death by axe-wielding sans culottes. Heads were removed and displayed on pikes or kicked around for sport. Body parts were dismembered and waved around, then fed to dogs. Hordes of women from the city’s underclass followed behind the advancing soldiers, stripping the corpses of Swiss Guardsmen of their uniforms and belongings, scything off the genitals and stuffing them into their mouths."
The attack on the Tuileries



Three days after the completion of The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, the mob stormed the Bastille, and marched around with the head of the prison’s commander, Marquis de Launay, on a pike. Shortly, the greatest nation in continental Europe became a human abattoir.




This is what happens when constituted authority bows to the savage revolutionaries.....Minneapolis, Portland, Kenosha.....

How many different governments ruled France from 1789 to Napoleon?

Did you wish to thank me for the educational lacunae of yours that I fill in?

Should I thank you for answering a question with a question?

 

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The American Revolution, based on Lockean principles regarding the God-given rights of individuals, the value of social virtue, and a state system created to preserve inalienable individual rights

Unfortunately not all individuals were included. The result was decades of continued slavery, a Civil War, a painful reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement. Maybe the lesson is that EVERYONE needs to be included if the country is to move forward and lots of people in this country do not feel they are included.

And herein we find proof of the difference between Liberals and conservatives.

Liberals are impulsive, and imprudent. They believe in quick changes, and risk new abuses worse than the ‘evils’ that they would sweep away, since remedies are usually not simple. Plato said that prudence is the mark of the statesman. There should be a balance between permanence and change, while liberals see ‘progress’ as some mythical direction for society.




The difference is the difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

How many generations must wait patiently for their freedom? Is 200 years too long?

"How many generations must wait patiently for their freedom? Is 200 years too long?"


Better ask the Democrat Party....

1.Doubling down on their support for slavery and segregation, the Democrat Party blocked every anti-lynching to come to the Senate.

2. Dragging their feet on post-war freedom for their slaves, they imposed poll taxes and Jim Crow laws.

3. The Obama ‘Promise Program’ made it almost impossible to remove thugs and criminals from ghetto schools, to make certain that learning was impeded.

4. Authored gun laws that only law abiding citizens would obey, preventing black citizens in crime ridden neighborhood from protecting themselves.

5. Promoted bogus anti-police hatred, while ignoring some 350,000 blacks killed by lawless blacks. 324,000 U.S. Blacks Killed by Blacks In Only 35 Years

6. In nearing a century of Democrat welfare, blacks remain as the lowest income racial group.

7. Allied with the International Left, the Democrat party makes certain that racial animosity never dies down.

8. The Democrats made and make certain that religion and morality is barred from the schools and from the public arena. “…will America be made better by curbing religion in the name of secularism, of vice versa?” Ben Shapiro


9. The Democrat judicial system is based on the idea that all blacks are felons, so felons must be released from jails. Carter-appointed judge Norma Shapiro “ is one of the worst offenders among that influential cadre of federal judges who have substituted the ACLU's prisoners' rights wish list for the Bill of Rights and have trifled with public safety concerns. …” In 1992, black youths were nine times more likely to be murdered than white youths. Democrats lied, kids died.

10. But wait…..they did manage to ban one single word from common parlance.

A lovely set of historical spins but certainly not answers to2 simple questions:
"How many generations must wait patiently for their freedom? Is 200 years too long?"

 

[PoliticalChic]

The American Revolution, based on Lockean principles regarding the God-given rights of individuals, the value of social virtue, and a state system created to preserve inalienable individual rights

Unfortunately not all individuals were included. The result was decades of continued slavery, a Civil War, a painful reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement. Maybe the lesson is that EVERYONE needs to be included if the country is to move forward and lots of people in this country do not feel they are included.

And herein we find proof of the difference between Liberals and conservatives.

Liberals are impulsive, and imprudent. They believe in quick changes, and risk new abuses worse than the ‘evils’ that they would sweep away, since remedies are usually not simple. Plato said that prudence is the mark of the statesman. There should be a balance between permanence and change, while liberals see ‘progress’ as some mythical direction for society.




The difference is the difference between the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

How many generations must wait patiently for their freedom? Is 200 years too long?

"How many generations must wait patiently for their freedom? Is 200 years too long?"


Better ask the Democrat Party....

1.Doubling down on their support for slavery and segregation, the Democrat Party blocked every anti-lynching to come to the Senate.

2. Dragging their feet on post-war freedom for their slaves, they imposed poll taxes and Jim Crow laws.

3. The Obama ‘Promise Program’ made it almost impossible to remove thugs and criminals from ghetto schools, to make certain that learning was impeded.

4. Authored gun laws that only law abiding citizens would obey, preventing black citizens in crime ridden neighborhood from protecting themselves.

5. Promoted bogus anti-police hatred, while ignoring some 350,000 blacks killed by lawless blacks. 324,000 U.S. Blacks Killed by Blacks In Only 35 Years

6. In nearing a century of Democrat welfare, blacks remain as the lowest income racial group.

7. Allied with the International Left, the Democrat party makes certain that racial animosity never dies down.

8. The Democrats made and make certain that religion and morality is barred from the schools and from the public arena. “…will America be made better by curbing religion in the name of secularism, of vice versa?” Ben Shapiro


9. The Democrat judicial system is based on the idea that all blacks are felons, so felons must be released from jails. Carter-appointed judge Norma Shapiro “ is one of the worst offenders among that influential cadre of federal judges who have substituted the ACLU's prisoners' rights wish list for the Bill of Rights and have trifled with public safety concerns. …” In 1992, black youths were nine times more likely to be murdered than white youths. Democrats lied, kids died.

10. But wait…..they did manage to ban one single word from common parlance.

A lovely set of historical spins but certainly not answers to2 simple questions:
"How many generations must wait patiently for their freedom? Is 200 years too long?"

What sort of moron gripes about black folks not getting treated equally.....then supports the very party responsible same?

Raise your paw.

 

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9. The instruction of the French Revolution wasn’t lost on Pol Pot, who had studied in Paris.

Starting in April ’75, the Communist Khmer Rouge defeated Lon Nol in Cambodia. Democrats, starting with the 1974 budget, refused to allocate another penny, and forbade US military action “in or over” Indochina. Just as the right had warned, the communists began a systematic war on the entire populations of their nation, so savage, it is hard to comprehend. It is estimated that the number of dead numbered between 1.7 to 2.5 million out of a population of around 8 million.
Killing Fields - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



a. As frequently found in totalitarian death cults, the Khmer Rouge cadres were mostly teenagers, some as young as ten or twelve, produced by cruelty and indoctrination. Consistent with other communist conquests, the Khmer Rouge began the massive and grotesque project of remaking society from scratch. They began by emptying the cities: every single person in Phnom Penh- including the lame, hospital patients on intravenous drips, the sick and the elderly, mothers who had just given birth, the pregnant, and infants, - everyone was forced to march.
Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

b. “The pedicab did not move to the side of the road so a soldier killed the driver with machine gun fire….A young soldier thrust his rifle through the window of the car, then shot the driver through the heart, and he crumpled in the arms of his wife…”I’m going to pick up my family,” Without warning, a soldier sprayed him with machine gun bullets….The frantic parents protested and sought to reclaim their children on the other side of the communist column. The patrol leader thereupon fired a volley of rifle shots, killing both mother and father.”
Barron and Paul, “Murder of a Gentle Land, “ p.26-28.

c. Later, to save bullets, the Khmer Rouge switched to other methods of execution, including clubbing, asphyxiation, and dousing the head with gasoline and setting it on fire.
Courtois, et.al., “The Black Book of Communism,” p. 611



How difficult would it be to envision the very same sort of events in America's streets if the Bidenistas take control?



Ivan Karamazov, in “The Brothers Karamazov,” exclaimed ‘if God does not exist, then everything is permitted.’

 

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What sort of moron gripes about black folks not getting treated equally.....then supports the very party responsible same?

Raise your paw.

What sort of racist assumes that Black folks support Dems because they don't know what is in their own best interests?

Raise your hood.