History may not repeat, but it rhymes...
Fascinating article.
Thanks for posting this.
The French attempted republicanism without God. They wanted to implement what the British did just a few decades previously. The big difference was that the British did it with a reformation view of Christianity while the French employed the renaissance view which was more secular humanist. God was why we succeeded.
Kunstler sees correctly, that "open border, their lust for another world war, their drive for censorship, their sadistic lawfare, their race and sex hustles, their compulsive lying, and their sick destruction of every norm and boundary in daily life."
From our time in Germany as legal residents until we returned home after retirement, The above seems apt to describe many in power in Europe and atop the EU, as well as the Biden administration here.
When average Joes stop fighting one another and set aside rhetorical differences in favor of simply looking at reality, there will indeed come when today's "insane Jacobin WOKE program of terror and social derangement" will be stopped in its idiotic tracks.
I thought this was gonna be a thread about lobster.
Sorry.
The biggest differnence between the French revolutionaries and the American revolutionaries was:
The American revolutionaries understood man was, at heart fallible, corrupt, greedy and power-hungry. Those proclivities had to be controlled. Hence, the limited government of the Constituion.
The French revoutionaries were inspired by Rosseu and the "nobile savage" model. In that model, man is by nature good, kind, and has been corrupted by civilization. Just get rid of civilization, all the institutions developed over centuries, and voila' ... instant utopia. Of course, you have to kill a lot of people to get to that point...
This is very close to the model embraced by Democrats...
The last paragraph, the one paragraph omitted in the excerpt, I am glad to see. Something has to be done sooner rather than later if it is to yield a good outcome.
And speaking of France:
‘In Hoc Signo Vinces’: How French Youth Are Raising the Cross Across the Nation
by Michael Haynes
February 26, 2024
Excerpt:
“ The pagan Roman Emperor Constantine won his famous battle at the Milvian Bridge after heeding the vision he received, telling him that he would conquer by using the sign of Christ, the cross. SOS Calvaires’ work is raising that same standard across the landscape of the eldest daughter of the Church once more since the truth remains constant: “In hoc signo vinces,” meaning “in this sign you shall conquer.”
BTTT
Everything continues to be as it is until it is not. Our national nightmare will end and those who caused it will pay.
Wonderful piece, great comments.
British author Paul Johnson once pointed out that the American Revolution was unique in that the aftermath did not follow the usual revenge-motivated murders that accompanied virtually every other revolution and rebellion in history. Approximately sixty thousand former British American Colonials, still loyal to the crown, departed the new America for Canada and Britain. They were not molested or abused on their way out, despite the terrible privations inflicted on their neighbors and former friends by those they had supported during the duration of the conflict.
This was a remarkable distinction that rarely gets attention, and is in stark contrast to what happened in France shortly after.
“ Democratic Party elites such as those on CNN are not just angry but genuinely confused by the fact that American voters don’t obey them”
And we have our own share of control freaks right here on FR
Many many lobster victims met their just end...as Lobster Thermidor.
The 13 colonies (soon to be states) all had functioning governments prior to and after the war of independence.
The situation in France was entirely different.