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To: VietVet; HarleyLady27; V K Lee
I like your suggestion, VietVet.  Let's modify the lyrics a bit.

Revolutions are not started by the common people.  But certain pivotal events rouse them to join the cause in righteous indignation.  Hillary's insult of Trump's supporters is such an event.

When I visited Dublin a few years ago, someone suggested I visit Kilmainham Gaol (Jail), a gruesome 18th century jail where the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising of the Irish Revolution were jailed and executed.

At first, I thought, visiting a jail isn't my idea of something to do on vacation.  But I'm glad I went because the excellent guided tour closed my knowledge of the Irish Revolution, which I felt important as an Irish-American.

Interestingly enough, the Irish people were at first opposed to the rebels.  But in the aftermath of the fighting, the cruelty of the British sparked the ultimate overthrow of British rule a few years later.

The story is explained very well by Elizabeth Covart on her history website:

This callous act of executing a wounded man under medical treatment became the straw that broke the camel's back. The people rose up and the British were ejected in the Irish War for Independence (1919-1921).

Likewise, Hillary's cruel and unjust "deplorables" comment has roused America's intelligent and uneducated rabble to raise their pitchforks.

30 posted on 09/20/2016 12:48:27 PM PDT by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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To: poconopundit

I visited Yad Vashem once when I was on vacation.

Some things you just gotta do.

Thank you for the background on the Irish Revolution.


40 posted on 09/20/2016 2:26:03 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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