Posted on 05/08/2023 4:47:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
At peak woke, our reign of terror is beginning to lose momentum because its continuation would destroy all the work of 247 years of American progress and sacrifice.
The decade-long French Revolution that broke out in 1789 soon devolved into far more than removing the monarchy, as it became antithetical to the earlier American precedent. American notions of liberty and freedom were seen as far too narrow, given the state, if only all-powerful and all-wise, could mandate “equality” and force “fraternity” among its subjects.
Each cycle of French revolutionary fervor soon became more radicalized and cannibalistic—until it reached its logical ends of violent absurdity.
Originally, the idea of curbing the power of a Bourbon king through a parliamentary republic became lethally counter-revolutionary.
Soon even attacks on the Catholic Church and the abolition of the monarchy entirely were deemed insufficient. The king himself and his consorts had to be beheaded. Monasteries and churches were to be ransacked, and priests exiled or lynched.
The sometimes moderate Girondins, who favored constitutional government, were mostly executed by their former friends among the Montagnards. In turn, the latter were soon deemed too conservative for the emerging crazy Jacobins. So they, too, had to be decapitated. The ensuing year-long reign of terror guillotined thousands of innocents, deemed guilty of being guilty of something.
By 1793, the revolution had turned nihilist and suicidal. The foundational date of France was recalibrated (not as 1619 but) as 1789—or “year one.”
Jacobins sought to wipe out religion, both materially and spiritually. They replaced God, first, with the atheistic “Cult of Reason” and then a stranger still “Cult of the Supreme Being”—a dreamed-up, living, humanistic god that only the murderous Robespierre could fully envision, but eerily similar to our own Green New Deal deity.
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I have not seen wokeness slowing down at all. Every new day seems crazier than the last.
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There was, at that time in France, a very deliberate and calculated plan to ‘de Christianize’ the society.
I don’t they ever really recovered from that
The French Revolution was Communist Revolution V 0.0
Convince me otherwise.
It may only end like, as in France, when what the revolutionaries did to so many others gets visited back on them.
Victor Davis Hanson is a history student of ancient nations. But he is very perceptive in today’s world.
“Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden’s regime is most revolutionary Left-wing since FDR”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3DYd7m2DYA
I agree. This goes to 2030 at a minimum and will get much worse than it is now. You will know it is almost over when you see mass exodus from our borders, rather than the influx we see now. Buckle up, we’re in for a wild ride and near total collapse before this gets going in the other direction.
Victor Davis Hanson is an excellent historian.
But, it is a mistake to judge the actions of the past based upon our view of the world today.
Those worlds are NOT the SAME.
We see the Crazy hate filled Left today trying to destroy the USA. And of course, they don’t know how to run a taco stand much less a nation.
During the French Revolution there were a lot of old grudges washed in blood in the streets. Both the French Monarchy and the corrupt French Pope earlier were both serving Great Evil.
Once the carnage began, it was hard to extinguish and much harder to rebuild.
And yes, Look at France today?
“Finally, what could not go on, did not go on”
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holds true in the US as well.
Loserferianism is so ancient it even predates human history.
Uncovering the truth of who did what is healthy but may also conflict with “established history” - a hard pill to swallow.
Let’s make it simple: evil is destructive, good is constructive.
You chose your orientation, right down to your present mental/emotional status. Don’t let it be chosen for you.
You could be made to act on false feelings, false thoughts.
In the end, dark forces’ greatest weapon ... is you.
>This goes to 2030 at a minimum and will get much worse than it is now.
I think it goes until you start to see other countries begin to mock us. Leftists hate being mocked by people they can’t destroy.
The wokeness is accelerating at an alarming pace both here and abroad. The Uniparty and NATO feign concern for Uke freedom while continuing to enslave the country for Western corrupt wokeness. We are on the verge of fighting WWIII to destroy the nations that will not take a bended knee for woke pervo globalism. Domestically, the DC corrupt Uniparty (R) oligarchs are only getting richer. Nothing changes unless Trump returns from his seditionist imposed Elba.
Well Victor, let it all come out. Preachit brother preach it
The reason for inequality is the fact that many are unequal
The reason for inequality is inequality
We are currently watching the PBS series Marie Antoinette. While watching the story line, I am also closely watching the actions of the court. The court lives in Versailles. The court exists separate and distinct from France. The court has no clue there is a real world out there. The court has no knowledge that France is not the KIng.
Only in France, half the population gets murdered by the other half and they call it a Revolution. France is a vile, POS, third class country with little redeeming social value.
Wow! Just wow!
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