Posted on 03/03/2016 5:47:01 AM PST by Texas Fossil
Wikipedia - great for scientific and other factual data. Anything remotely political? Forget about it.
“The ballot box is still preferable to the cartridge box.”
Absolute agreement, until and unless such time as the ballot box is shown to be ineffectual.
“a bas les aristos!”
The American Revolution WAS NOT a populist undertaking, it was over before it had the support of anything approaching the majority of Americans.
The American Revolution was a revolution based on PRINCIPLES, it wasn't about telling people what they wanted to hear. Hell, the Boston Tea Party wasn't even about a tax increase, it was a TAX CUT.
The fury and fervor is why the 2016 election is as close to the French Revolution as America will ever get. The conditions are similar with people being out of work, a mostly stagnant economy, rising costs of health care and other products, and a country which seems weaker than it has in the past. People are desperate, so they’re throwing their lot in with the one guy they believe will get them to the next level. It doesn’t appear anyone will be physically led to the guillotine, but the anger certainly has the chance to send the Republican Party to the chopping block
(Bold mine) Millard is wrong in thinking America could never have a French Revolution-style bloodletting. If Trump does not do what he says, and conditions deteriorate further, I think we could have something like that.
This is no longer the moral country it was at the Founding. Americans, especially in the large cities, are Godless, soulless, petty, selfish, and vengeful.
Such a bloodletting wouldn't happen before Trump, I think. Most Americans want to have a political solution, a peaceful solution. There isn't one, of course, but most Americans don't know or believe that, and Trump will get a trial first.
But if Trump breaks most of his promises, and conditions worsen, I know of only one other thing holding back such a bloodletting: Americans are, by and large, peaceable. Put another way, most Americans are too cowardly to use violence to solve societal problems. We don't have the stones to guillotine politicians. And in a way, that's good.
All of what you said and more. The American revolution (to me) was about empowering the individual, about making it so that no one or government could impose their will upon us unless it was consented. That the individual was Sovereign over his world and could tell anyone who wanted something from him (including big brother) to go to H_LL and be completely legal.
“This will not suddenly go away. The Elections in November will not end it.”
You are correct. Regardless of outcome, the Elections are just one pitched battle in a culture “war” that could last for generations, if we are lucky enough to even survive. It may already be too late. The problem is the populace has been dumbed down by communist subversion of schools and other influential institutions until too many people see Socialism as benign or even beneficial. Poor ignorant deluded fools! They are too wilfully blind to consider the fate of Venezuela.
“... it didn’t happen with Caesar, it didn’t happen with Robespierre, and it won’t happen here.”
As my dad once said, “Revolutions rarely turn out well”. Ours was the exception, not the rule. I attribute our past success due to an overall public morality based on Christian values. That seems no longer the case. Simon Bolivar commented after his own failure that North America must be populated by angels.
Well how long did the American Revolution war last, in years? Did the interest in freedom grow over the course of time?
Thank-you for your response!
Agree
“And in a way, that’s good.”
Agree.
But, we do have citizens (many X-military) who know how to overcome that reluctance and deal with real threats.
I saw an interviews and she is radiantly beautiful, exquisitely elegant, loyal and modest. I think she’d go for powerhouse charity fundraising as First Lady. But she’s not the usual power-hungry feminist like Elaine Chao.
LMAO!!
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