Posted on 01/14/2026 6:56:48 AM PST by Starman417
During college, one of my professors in Political Philosophy said that the only real revolutions in modern Western civilization were the French and the Russian. He was right, but I didn’t quite get it at the time. I do now.
While the American Revolution was ostensibly a revolution, in reality, it was more of a divorce where the kids kept the same parents, they just lived with their Mom. Their Dad was still their Dad, but they didn’t have much to do with him. In contrast, the French and Russian revolutions were basically the children taking their parents out back and shooting them…
The American Revolution was a revolution, but it wasn’t revolutionary. But what was revolutionary was the United States Constitution.
For the first time in history, a government was formed by a written constitution that described rights that were inherent from God (as articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the constitutions of most of the original 13 states), upon which the government could not impede. What’s more, the entire thing was created for the specific purpose of limiting the power of government. This was made clear by the Bill of Rights, which—beginning with Massachusetts—became the quid pro quo for getting the Constitution ratified. And in case anyone missed the point, the last of the ten amendments that make up the Bill of Rights states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
That was every bit as revolutionary as the French sending King Louis XVI to the guillotine or the Bolsheviks shooting Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family in a basement. But what’s more, unlike those other two revolutions, the American Constitution didn’t result in rivers of blood and a collapse of society. On the contrary, it set the American experiment on its slow but methodical march to revolutionize the world and unleash the potential of man.
The American experiment worked… for almost 200 years. Of course, it didn’t work perfectly for everyone all the time, nor for some people any of the time, but for the overwhelming majority of people who have lived in the United States over the course of its existence, life has been better here than almost any other place on Earth.
But that experiment is in the process of collapsing. Why? Simple. Because the nation that was birthed with a constitution specifically geared towards limiting government power has metastasized into a nation where the government controls virtually everything.
Today, it’s almost impossible for a person to get out of bed and go through a normal day without violating one or more laws. Just the federal government alone, which was the government the Constitution sought to control the most, today has so many laws that it itself can’t tell you how many there are. Justice Gorsuch estimates as many as 300,000. To his credit, President Trump sees the problem.
But that is just one part of the problem. Another, even more dire, is playing itself out on our X accounts and on TV right in front of us – except obviously, the MSM… I’m of course talking about the criminal enterprise that is known as what seems like the entire Somali population in America. It appears that Somalians in America have stolen almost as much money from American taxpayers as the entire GDP of Somalia itself.
This, of course, comes mere months after we saw DOGE discover the USAID / NGO grift machine documenting tens of billions of taxpayer dollars going to fund countless leftist programs. Not surprisingly, both involve Democrats… but that’s an issue for another day.
As enraging as all of this is, these treacheries are just a drop in the bucket of where America has gone off her Constitutional rails. One needs to look no further than the federal budget to understand it. Today, 70% of federal spending goes to things that did not exist when the Constitution was written.
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So, NOT the embrace of the warm collective then? 😂👍. Some people are NOT trying to keep the repubic.
Some day, in the not to distant future, those on the left who hate the government and those on the right who hate the government will look at each other and realize they hate the same people.
And that will be an uncomfortable day to be a government hack.
No we didn't. Abraham Lincoln did, and people applauded him during the entire time he was doing it.
The Civil War spurred the greatest growth of government and government power in our history.
This stared with president Wilson and his progressive measures. The 16th, 17th, and 19th amendments set this country up for a collision course we are seeing today.
Yes. Trump formed an interesting coalition people on the left that actually have things in common with maga. There is overlap... the leftists against corporate kleptocracy and against corporate poisoning of the food supply and against endless foreign war for example.
The government was never intended to be a charity.
Along with the creation of the Federal Reserve (printing $trillions out of thin air) and in 2013 when congress allowed taxing income from whatever source derived.
America's Caesar by Greg Loren Durand
Nothing new here; in fact, I would say that it is completely impossible, not just almost. In a book called My Six Convicts, by Donald Powell Wilson, a study is mentioned claiming that the average "law-abiding" citizen in one (unnamed) city would unwittingly break enough laws during one year of ordinary living to be sentenced to over 1,825 years in prison and to be fined over $2 million.
That book was published in 1951.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. (see tagline)
Since the American Revolution rejected hereditary monarchy (even British Constitutional Monarchy) as a political model, it was indeed revolutionary and radical for its time. It was part and parcel of the revolutions in Europe that gradually eroded the power of the monarchy and the aristocracy and replaced it with representatives of merchants, farmers, and other freemen.
The fact that it rejected the rule of a monarch and went its own way as opposed to murdering the monarch is due to a combination of military logistics combined with the fact that the leaders of the American Revolution were fundamentally decent and sane people in ways that the leaders of the French and Russian Revolutions were not.
It's hard to say when it started. But the Civil War, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, and the Iraq War (among others) all helped grow the state.
Every war, every military intervention, leaves the government more in debt, and more powerful.
Seems to me the left support the “poisoning” of our food supply. They hate RFK for doing so.
Just type it out. I don’t read tag lines.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
Madison was right in interpreting the welfare clause. Hamilton couldn’t see past his interpretation how the greed and evil of men would crush this nation.
The hope is the man who was the victim of that Leviathan ‘spying on my campaign’, and every day since of that long train of abuses and usurpations, will obliterate and drain it all, just like is presented as a premise in the 1776 Declaration.
I would argue that geography played the number one role here.
That’s what I meant by “military logistics” - but there’s also the fact that assassinating George III really wasn’t on the radar of the American Revolution’s leaders. They weren’t murderers, unlike Robespierre and his followers.
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