Posted on 01/02/2023 2:50:17 AM PST by Phoenix8
Apparently Rooster never read of the French Terror.
“The Reign of Terror (French: la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety.”
The Committee of Public Safety almost wore out the guillotine. They only stopped when members of the Committee were accused of treason. A few years ago there was a story on the French Revolution that included that era on you tube.com. I don’t know if it was pulled or not. I watched it. It was factual. Interesting.
There are plenty of so-called democratic countries around the world which are dictatorships.
And there are plenty of mobs running around in dictatorships and/or totalitarian regimes, but that doesn't mean such country is under mob rule, does it?
You had better watch out for all those straw men you are creating, you wouldn't want to trip over all that straw.
BTW, you are sorta new around here, but most folks know it is common courtesy to ping people you refer to in a post so it doesn't look like gossip.
They’ve got dental - and their kids need braces.
Yes. I think that’s a very large part of it. People just look the other way hoping things will get better on their own.
How sid I set to up a straw man? The French Republic was all about democracy just making a point a democracy can be authoritarian. You had the view democracies can’t be authoritarian…they can be the worst sort actually as I pointed out.
And as far as gossiping I figured you could see my post which you did. I could have sent a Pm if I wanted to do that. Yes I admit some ignorance in the pinging part.
Finally I was around here when you were probably still getting lunch money from your parents 🤣. I just left for a long, long time.
(same post just fixed the massacred first sentence)
How did I set up a straw man? The French Republic was all about democracy, just making a point a democracy can be authoritarian. You had the view democracies can’t be authoritarian…they can be the worst sort actually as I pointed out.
And as far as gossiping I figured you could see my post which you did. I could have sent a Pm if I wanted to do that. Yes I admit some ignorance in the pinging part.
Finally I was around here when you were probably still getting lunch money from your parents 🤣. I just left for a long, long time.
And a real totalitarian government isn't democratic either...otherwise it wouldn't actually be a totalitarian government.
The straw man you set up is that you used a case in which a government was democratic in name only and then used it to demonstrate how "democracies" can be something other than democracies. Or more accurately, you seemed to misconstrue my original statement (that a democracy cannot be totalitarian) by showing how some governments who were democratic in name only could have elements within them that weren't democratic.
I have been on FR for over 20 years. Jim has graciously (and after many sincere apologies on my part) allowed me to keep coming back.
Ok I see your point.
Thank you.
A democratic government (or a republic like ourselves) can temporarily be something other than a democratic government when, in an emergency, a state of martial law is declared.
That said, FR has been the biggest source of my growth in understanding over the last 20 years. The guys and gals here are smart as hell, and just as big-hearted as they are smart.
Thx again for your response.
Well it’s more than just a place to talk to (mostly) nice intelligent people.
I really believe our representative capitalistic Western oriented system is in danger of defeat and destruction.
Yep. Our country is in the midst of an internal war with the Marxists. Hard to believe many folks are still in denial of that fact.
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