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It was a volcano. That, and france suffered the loss of the 7 years war and King Louis XV intervening in the American revolution also was costly for the economy.

The solution was one the Democrats would propose. Raise taxes on everyone but the elite. Finally they couldn't take it anymore and they cut off Louis's head.

Napoleon Bonaparte summed up the root causes of the revolution this way and I say it is the best way: The people no longer had anything to eat but the rich.

In today's America, many of the rich elite are liberal. When they raise our taxes they can take it easily by passing the buck. Napoleon's words should serve as warning especially to the golden state leftists.

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It was a volcano

Whereas all that was needed for the Holodomor -- genocide by famine -- in the Ukraine, was socialism by Stalin. Millions died.