France had a revolution, so did the US. Outcomes were incredibly different. Nature of the citizens and stature of those leading the revolt.
Solution? Purge the Commies and Traitors who are destroying the US.
Lighen up, Francis. No one is talking about trotting out
actual guillotines. Yet.
Can we tar and feather them first?
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Try to steal the nomination from the citizens choice and they might see a real French revolution instead of a rhetorical one.
The solution requires that the individual look beyond his or her own personal desires to the good of the cou try and its Constitution.
The ballot box is still preferable to the cartridge box.
I will personally engineer a new twin guillotine if I get front row viewing for the Dorkbama/Hillabeast completion following CW-II.
We had a war of independence. France had a revolution, or rather a devolution.
It was more about the nature of the revolt.
The American Revolution was all about Americans wanting to keep what was theirs, and not liking to be taxed and ordered about by far-off England, for the benefit of the English elites. It was a revolution of the American middle class against those who wanted their stuff.
The French Revolution involved the seizing of the property of the old elites, and degenerated into a fight over who would have power over those appropriated assets. It was a revolution of the underclass, to seize and redistribute wealth. As such, it resembled the later Russian Revolution.
IOW replace damn near everyone in the current government.
Alexis De Toqueville came to America to study this difference in outcomes. His conclusions were very pertinent to our situation today. The French revolution took over an existing powerful central government. Ours created a new condition working from the small town governments up with a very weak (by design) central government. He was not optimistic about the future if the power was reversed.
Americans were not starving. America did not have the wealth controlled by the Church and the nobility
Perhaps also important, France had America
The Democrats should be very worried about having their names on the list. When they are dealt with perhaps Mitt and old Bob and Mitch will appear near the top of the list
This writer’s comparison of the electorate to the Incredible Hulk is apropos—it is about rage. Pure rage.
Rather, it is the “American Revolution” Part 2.
This is more like a second American Revolution. Remember, the origianal tea party was not a friendly social event.
The American Revolution was about fighting for unalienable rights endowed by our Creator. The French Revolution was about fighting for the rights of man. How did that turn out?
..we got the Constitution. France got Robespierre, the guillotine, and Napoleon—guess which revolution was rooted in a Judeo-Christian worldview...
Trump is a big government liberal. All that drank the kool-aid will be tearing trump bumper stickers off their cars within 6-months of Inauguration Day.
That's because France had a revolution, but the colonies had a reformation. The French wanted to tear down their government, but the Patriots originally wanted the government in London to recognize that they had the same rights as free people in Britain, and only declared independence when the Crown refused to recognize those rights.
Reformations, when done successfully, return societies to their original principles. Revolutions, by contrast, always start with the exhilarating overthrow, then collapse into chaos and then massacre, which brings on dictatorship to end the collapse.
One of the things that scares me about the present time is how blithely some people here dismiss the "side effects" of revolution, that if we just get someone to kick a$$ and take names everything will somehow go back to how it should be, when that is never what happens: it didn't happen with Caesar, it didn't happen with Robespierre, and it won't happen here.
The fury and fervor is why the 2016 election is as close to the French Revolution as America will ever get. The conditions are similar with people being out of work, a mostly stagnant economy, rising costs of health care and other products, and a country which seems weaker than it has in the past. People are desperate, so they’re throwing their lot in with the one guy they believe will get them to the next level. It doesn’t appear anyone will be physically led to the guillotine, but the anger certainly has the chance to send the Republican Party to the chopping block
(Bold mine) Millard is wrong in thinking America could never have a French Revolution-style bloodletting. If Trump does not do what he says, and conditions deteriorate further, I think we could have something like that.
This is no longer the moral country it was at the Founding. Americans, especially in the large cities, are Godless, soulless, petty, selfish, and vengeful.
Such a bloodletting wouldn't happen before Trump, I think. Most Americans want to have a political solution, a peaceful solution. There isn't one, of course, but most Americans don't know or believe that, and Trump will get a trial first.
But if Trump breaks most of his promises, and conditions worsen, I know of only one other thing holding back such a bloodletting: Americans are, by and large, peaceable. Put another way, most Americans are too cowardly to use violence to solve societal problems. We don't have the stones to guillotine politicians. And in a way, that's good.