Posted on 10/14/2024 4:42:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The revolution is the feast of the cannibals. Vanity, lust for power, and deadly rivalry invariably get mixed up with the particulars of ideology. Unyielding conceit appears in the guise of piety or secular altruism as purges degenerate into violent orgies. Sure enough, the outcome is the installment of another tyranny.
Three revolutions in France, Russia, and Iran legitimized destruction and violence with a narrative of political persecution, inequality, and social injustice under monarchical governments. After power struggles and cannibalistic purges, however, they all ended in tyrannical oppression of totalitarian proportions, characterized by ideological extremism and utter contempt for human life.
Swiss publicist Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749-1800) is known for the following reflection:
“Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.”
SNIP
To conceive of the “unholy” alliance between socialists and Islamists worldwide as an anomaly is a misunderstanding. Far from being contradictory, it is meaningful. What unites the ideological opposites is (a) hatred of Western civilization and (b) willingness to resort to violence to promote a totalitarian world order. In the long run, of course, peace is not going to last between them. They remain ideological arch-rivals. Strictly speaking, their alliance represents a pragmatic arrangement. The deadline for their pragmatism expires as soon as the last vestiges of the free world have been obliterated. Then one of them will make away with the other. The stronger eats the weaker party.
Basically, the same Saturnal rules apply during revolutions and showdowns in the criminal underworld: Those with the (a) cunning, (b) weapons, and (c) resolve to take or keep power, whatever the price in human blood and suffering, are going to prevail.
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The left has imported the destroyers of our civilization.
Feast of the Cannibals = Chicago Thanksgiving Weekend
The skinny: once the implicit alliance between the Leftists and the Islamists destroys Western Civilization, it becomes a contest of which devours the other (all based on the historical precedents the dude lays out).
Chilling article.
Three revolutions in France, Russia, and Iran legitimized destruction and violence with a narrative of political persecution, inequality, and social injustice under monarchical governments.
These were all revolutions against something they didn’t want.
Compare that with the American Revolution with a clear purpose.
If I shake you awake in the middle of the night and ask what you are fighting for, after you reach for your gun, what do you tell me?
Our Founding Fathers could tell us. Do you know what it was?
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