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Our French Revolution - America now has three potential futures and two are bad.
American Greatness ^ | 5 Apr, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/06/2023 5:16:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber

We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary.

The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020.

It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support.

The American people want affordable power and fuel and energy autonomy. They do not want a Green New Deal that results in dependence on the Middle East.

They want fiscal sobriety, not a permanent stagflationary economy marked by bank failures, soaring interest rates, crony capitalism, and subsidies for those who choose not to work.

They know no country can exist without a border, much less while offering blank checks to foreign cartels that kill 100,000 Americans yearly.

They demand realist deterrence abroad, not the current woke military whose erosion is spelling the end American credibility and global stability.

Racialists are eerily embracing discredited Neo-Confederate notions of racial chauvinism, discrimination, segregation, and the old-one-drop rule of racial obsession. They are turning America toward a Balkanized war-of-all-against-all.

To implement such an unpopular program, the new Left must radically alter our institutions.

So the “Democrats” periodically threaten to pack the courts, end the filibuster, destroy the Electoral College, and override the states’ prerogatives to establish balloting laws.

They deny the committee assignments of the House minority leader. They engage in stunts like tearing up the State of the Union address on national television. With impunity they mob the homes of Supreme Court justices to leverage their decisions.

This revolution is run by elites and is a top-down operation.

University deans all but prompt students to disrupt invited campus speakers. District attorneys release violent arrested criminals without bail. Woke generals call their Chinese counterparts to warn them...

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; jacobin; jacobins; revolution; vdh
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1 posted on 04/06/2023 5:16:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

That is what we have, a bunch of Jacobins.


2 posted on 04/06/2023 5:17:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 04/06/2023 5:17:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

ALL DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL!


4 posted on 04/06/2023 5:18:57 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

YES, every damn one of them!


5 posted on 04/06/2023 5:21:31 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: MtnClimber

The Democrats were always about Fairness.

Now, they are about Equity.


6 posted on 04/06/2023 5:23:04 AM PDT by MMusson
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To: MtnClimber

The French were eventually forced to start executing Jacobins in large numbers to save themselves.


7 posted on 04/06/2023 5:26:53 AM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: MtnClimber

Thank you for your faith. Also appreciate such a post.


8 posted on 04/06/2023 5:27:10 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: MtnClimber

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9 posted on 04/06/2023 5:28:51 AM PDT by gattaca (Either you will control your government, or government will control you. Ronald Reagan)
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To: MtnClimber

The ‘democratic’ party vanished long before 2020.

The democrats are now close to being a bully tyrannical communist party. You can’t distinguish the democrats from the communists of 50-60 years ago.

Communism does not tolerate different opinions. Democrats do not tolerate different opinions. Communists arrest those that don’t comply with their ways; democrats are exactly the same. Communism indoctrinates kids from k-12 and in colleges/universities. Democrats have been doing the same for over 60 years. Communists have control of the media, thereby making their media companies state-owned/state-controlled. Democrats want the same with American media companies and have succeeded to a large extent with that. Democrats want government control of the economy, just like it is under communism.

IN fact, as we can see now, the democrat party is progressive 100%, and progressive is just another word for communism. Democrats are full communist now. No difference whatsoever.

Fortunately, the U.S. still has opposition against communism, or against the democrat party. There is still hope for the U.S.

Communism, aka: the democrat party, needs to be stopped!


10 posted on 04/06/2023 5:38:58 AM PDT by adorno
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To: MtnClimber
Excellent article. Though I found this paragraph confusing:
As the country collapses under leftist nihilism, the revolution’s last gasp is to destroy Donald Trump—by empowering him. That is, the leftist legal vendetta is designed to win him just enough empathy to be nominated the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, but then to keep on indicting, gagging, and hemorrhaging him legally until Election Day 2024.
It sounds like VDH is saying that Trump is the Left's candidate of choice so that by getting him nominated they can then destroy him in the general and win again in 2024.

I don't think that is correct.

Trump is the Left's greatest nightmare. I think Bragg wants to destroy Trump completely...not propel him to the nomination by generating empathy for him.

11 posted on 04/06/2023 5:42:00 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: MtnClimber
"They want..."

The problem is, the American people also want someone else to provide that for them. As long as things continue to be easy, they are easily manipulated by the left with promises of more. The American people will not make change, change will be forced onto them, and by that time, they are going to live through some really tough times.

12 posted on 04/06/2023 5:44:42 AM PDT by Yogafist (Voting rino is voting for the managed decline of America.)
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To: AAABEST
The French were eventually forced to start executing Jacobins in large numbers to save themselves.

I don't say this to be bombastic, but eventually, that will have to happen here. Who is going to do it is a mystery given that all institutions have been taken over by the American Jacobins. I guess it will have to be done by a citizen army.

13 posted on 04/06/2023 5:45:11 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: MtnClimber

Another ploy.. bribing the pubs as well as the dems, so both parties have a vested interest in keeping the status quo and ensuring a uniform hatred of Trump gaining office.


14 posted on 04/06/2023 5:47:44 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: RoosterRedux
I respectfully disagree. We have one play left before doing that. We have to treat the political battle like it really is -- an extension of a larger spiritual war. Today's Dims are anti-church and require people bow to their cult religion -- just like the Jacobins.

One thing we have on our side that the Christians in 18th century France did not, is we're not dealing with a stain of a control-freak church intertwined with government. It was hard for the true Christians in France to convince people to stick to Jesus and love God and others -- when the church was part of the oppressive government. Christians in the U.S. today don't have that hurdle. We should take advantage of this opportunity to remind people that the anti-Christians are in charge of our ever oppressing government. We should ask people how hedonism is working out for them and their community.

This is too herculean a war to win without the Lord. We have to arm up with God's Spirit more than anything else. And that means playing God's long game (helping win the spiritual war).

15 posted on 04/06/2023 6:06:11 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

VDH nails it again.


16 posted on 04/06/2023 6:08:11 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Tell It Right
I respectfully disagree back at you (I think).;-)

If you are saying that we have a functioning, true believing Christian church (collectively) in this country, I think you are (mostly) incorrect.

I think the churches have gone Woke too. And the ones that haven't gone Woke are filled with people who don't want to rock the boat.

Have I misunderstood your point?

17 posted on 04/06/2023 6:20:06 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: MtnClimber

Here sits a noose,
it’s going to cook your goose.
You can do what’s right or wrong,
but you’re going to have to choose.


18 posted on 04/06/2023 6:24:07 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MtnClimber

Nice article. Its conclusions are starkly brief.

Conclusions 1 & 2, however, have little to distinguish between them.

Conclusion 3, the only “good” one, is implausible. It states that the people will see how childish the A. Bragg indictment is and will say “enough already”. Fat chance.

I’ve got a 4th option that might be better: the Lord Himself causes the curtain to be drawn back, like in Wizard of Oz, to reveal the fraudsters: Hillary, Brocko, Comey, Rosenstein, Clapper, Wray, Brennan, Vindman, Schiff, Schumer, Pelosi, Bragg, et al, for who they really are. That would have to be a supernatural act; and it would be a definitive one, too. What are the odds? I don’t know. It depends whether the Lord has finished with America, or not. I pray He will consider it a nation worth saving.

But it may be that, as before the Flood, Sodom, the Babylonian captivity, and 70 AD, He has seen enough.


19 posted on 04/06/2023 6:35:23 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: Tell It Right

Remember that the Lord may work with only a Remnant.


20 posted on 04/06/2023 6:37:12 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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