Good post. Here’s my take:
The American and French Revolutions are very definitive, in my opinion. Two very different types of revolutions. The French Revolution was the first of many socialist revolutions throughout Europe, culminating in the Bolshevist Revolution. Thus, the French Revolution is the origin of Communism...when traced to its roots.
Since the world today is no longer composed of Monarchies, most governments, sad to say, have followed the lead of Rousseau and Robespierre, rather than Washington and Jefferson.
Moreover, governments that follow the French, not the American, template, deserve the epithet “Democratic.” True, many governments use the word Republic in their founding documents (as in France), but they are in truth, if they follow the French Revolution socialist template, a “Democracy.”
With these considerations, I am most happy to be a Republican...happy to distance myself from that most definitive word (Democrat) that has such connotations. I have heard people deride the Democrats by using the word “Communist.” Actually, they were spot on.
Unlike the French, our revolution made NO attempt to dismantle the church (any church) and had no ‘organized labor’ component.
Subsequent revolutions were very much land reform or labor driven and VERY irreligious.
It must be admitted that AMERICA as a stand alone Christian and representative system was for a very long time a truly unique and wonderful enterprise.