French Revolution Attacking the American Revolution

National Review ^ | August 8, 2017 | Wesley J. Smith

[sparklite2]

be your own devil’s advocate

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Good advice. My problem is that no matter
how cynical I get, it’s never enough.

[Heartlander]

Not an appeal to authority – you called Prof. West’s expertise on the subject ‘idiotic’ and I was merely pointing out that he teaches Politics at conservative Hillsdale College - ‘one of the only colleges in America -- outside of the military academies -- that requires every student to take a course on the Constitution to graduate’ . It is obviously your prerogative to quickly dismiss him while encouraging others to ‘do the hard work of examining the arguments’…

Note – I did not once tell you what to think – I merely provided a quote or links so you could decide for yourself - or ‘be your own devil’s advocate’, so to speak…

[Jacquerie]

Good vid. Unlike our Revolution, the FR consumed itself.

It is what the Social Justice Warriors are doing on campus right now. Far Leftist Professors must be very careful lest someone points at them and shouts ‘J’accuse’!

[Jacquerie]

You know for a fact that the military academy students take a course on the Constitution?

[Heartlander]

I do not know that all military academy students take a course - especially after the last administration…

[Jacquerie]

Okay.

[the OlLine Rebel]

You’re going strictly on the Declaration and Jefferson’s words?

We’re going on the whole principle, which is borne out constantly by the whole of the AmRev discussions and debates, writings and so forth held by many of the Signers and Constitutional convention debaters, and contained within such as the Federalist Papers.

[otness_e]

Honestly, I actually get irritated when people think the French Revolution wasn’t an Enlightenment based Revolution. Let me point out that some of the guys the Revolutionaries had looked up to and tried to emulate regarding their works included the likes of Diderot and Voltaire, and those guys most CERTAINLY were of the Enlightenment, even if Rousseau wasn’t.

And for the record, Thomas Jefferson, not to mention Thomas Paine, outright supported the Jacobins and the other Revolutionaries in their horrors, even after the rest of the Founding Fathers became very privy to their crimes and rightfully condemned them. Just look at this if you don’t believe me: https://allthingsliberty.com/2017/05/understanding-thomas-jeffersons-reactions-rise-jacobins/

And as far as the Girondins being moderates, nice try, but they weren’t true moderates. They’re about as “moderate” as PBS, CBS, NBC, and ABC were “moderate”, or how Macron was “moderate.” If anything, they were about as radical as the Jacobins. Bertrand Barère, a member of the Girondins, actually advocated for turning Vendee into a graveyard. Read this if you don’t believe me: http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/Fidelity_archives/parricide.html

I do agree with you guys on one thing: Our revolution, despite being founded to some extent on similar Enlightenment literature to that of the French Revolutionaries, was definitely not similar to them at all.