Posted on 08/02/2021 9:26:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
There’s something remarkable happening in France right now, and it’s starting to feel a little “Louis XVI-ish.”
If you’re not familiar with the French Revolution (May 5, 1789 – November 9, 1799), it was an incredible period of sweeping political and societal change in France.
And while there were many different circumstances and reasons which sparked the revolution, it really boiled down to three main crisis points: social, political, and economic. And one of the most formidable groups spearheading the push for reform were the peasants — or as we’d call them today, the “working class.”
French peasants were furious over rapid population growth, harvest failures, physiocratic calls for modernization of agriculture — basically “agricultural economists” seeking to revamp farming – -as well as the rising cost of dues paid out to the Lords who owned the land.
These issues were the driving force behind the peasants’ desire to demolish feudalism in France.
In short, the monarchy had gotten far too big for its britches, and the working class said, “enough,” and grabbed their pitchforks and took to the streets… and the rest is history.
There was far more to it than that, but you get the picture.
And as it always does, history repeats its self… and once again, the French working class is back in the streets, with symbolic pitch-forks in hand, protesting a government that’s gotten far too big for its britches.
This time around, the French working class is furious over President Emmanuel Macron’s tyrannical Covid vaccine push.
Macron is basically telling people, you either take the jab or you lose any shot at a normal life.
Threats like that didn’t sit well with the hard-working people of France, and they came out to protest — hundreds of thousands of people.
However, what’s happening in France goes even deeper than vaccines — many of the people who are protesting are also experiencing mounting poverty, and a country that’s been overrun with refugees — this is true especially in cities like Marseilles, whose citizens have a natural inherent distrust of authority and government — they’re like the “Rebel South” in the US.
When you put the entire picture together, you can start to see those “Louis XVI” vibes I mentioned earlier, right?
The images coming out of France are stunning and for those of us in the United States, who feel we’re just a hop, skip, and a jump away from this happening in our country, it’s inspiring to see brave citizens stand up and fight back against tyranny.
Take a look:
One Day More 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/3nkuqaKjml
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) July 31, 2021
Nurses and doctors faced off against cops:
Healthcare workers hand in hand standing up to police in Paris, France protesting against the Macron government domestic vaccine pass. pic.twitter.com/IABbaxE4TA
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) July 31, 2021
Citizens again swarmed at the Place de la Bastille:
👀 Thousands are now arriving at the Place de la Bastille for a demonstration against France’s vaccine passport mandate. pic.twitter.com/QMM3QH8vvp
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) July 31, 2021
Bombs in the streets:
EXPLOSION: An an incendiary device is set off after Paris police charged a large group of anti-vaccine passport protesters. pic.twitter.com/Bd5nFy97Df
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) July 31, 2021
It’s quite a sight to see.
And it makes you wonder, as Emmanuel Macron gazes out his palace window, looking down upon the hordes of angry peasants below if he doesn’t feel a slight kinship to King Louis the 16th — another privileged man who couldn’t understand the plight of his people, and who ended up paying for it with his life.
Great, France has more balls than we do...
The French are also more inclined to go to extremes.
It took a long, painful time for France to recover from its Revolution. It was like a crude and cruel chemotherapy.
Seeing Macron dragged naked through the streets would be worth all the chaos it would entail
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‘Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice’ Barry Goldwater
It’s still too comfortable here in the US. The French are not a gun culture, so the government feels free to implement tyranny. In America, politicians will use policy to push agendas, but they know they’re in for a bad time if they try to put jackboots on the streets.
Still, I suspect we are on the precipice of a problem in this country. There’s a very palpable mood settling in across the nation.
“Do you hear the People sing?...”
Seems so. Now where is that white flag? Some reports of a lockdown speech being readied. Of course they can force that by coercion of businesses. Health inspections, liquor licenses, fire marshall, gaming boards.... We know the drill.
Well, yeah, but no Reign of Terror please.
Gonna have to get me a new ‘antenna’..........................
St.Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
French Revolution
Revolutions of 1848
Roll ‘em all up into one and have a general global cleansing. I wouldn’t mind.
I’m still confused about the economy being okay.
They must be pumping dollars into it.
How else can you close businesses for about a year and be okay?
It will be interesting to see the eviction moratorium fallout.
I read that 12 million households face eviction...
Les Deplorables.
I like it!
No, they’re being driven to extremes by extreme government.
Even the Germans, the most law-abiding, “yes, fuhrer” population on this earth, have been out in the streets protesting. And guess what...they got clubbed into the ground and dragged off by the police, who are now nothing but the forces of their respective central governments.
I saw a horrible video of a 40ish woman (clearly unarmed, wearing summer street clothes, no helmet or mask, her hair just down around her shoulders like a regular summer afternoon) being beaten by the police. When her 12-13 yr old son tried to crawl over to her to protect her from the beating, they slammed him upside the head, knocked him away, and then dragged her off.
There’s a war going on.
Setting cities on fire, fomenting racism, not paying police, stealing elections, letting in millions of Central Americans, and printing crazy money can lead to problems.
“...pulled out a 3 foot long radio antennae...”
I always felt those thin wire antennas embedded in the windshield were useless.
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