Posted on 07/14/2017 4:14:14 PM PDT by jfd1776
Utter hogwash.
Utter hogwash.
Spot on.
You got to break some eggs to make an omelette.
A lot of broken eggs ... but no omelet.
“And by overthrowing the absolute monarch and replacing him with ... a committee of soulless butchers...”
Once the eggs are broken, it takes some time to prepare the omelette.
In that process, the eggs are broken and they are beaten, but in the end the final product is usually better than the previous situation.
Again, not all revolutions have a positive outcome.
Actually you missed my point entirely.
That sounds like a quote from Lenin.
In that process, the eggs are broken and they are beaten, but in the end the final product is usually better than the previous situation.
Name one. Soviet Russia? China? Indochina? Angola? Cuba? The Congo? Venezuela? Chile? Argentina?
The "revolutions" you describe are little more than cultural cataclysms. They effect little long-term change, and they certainly don't change the human nature that gave rise to the "intolerable" conditions that spark them.
The exception is the American Revolution, which begat an entirely different way of approaching government. But, as we're seeing these days, it too is succumbing to the moral erosion that betrays its original purpose. We're "progressing" right back into what we revolted against in 1775. It just took a little longer than it did in France or Russia.
There are so many academics who look to the French revolution as THE intellectual source of modern “civil rights”, ignoring as they do what the terrors the French revolution brought. The U.S. revolution was conducted honorably with respect to our adversaries in our midst. The French led by mob rule. They still resort to that at times when some faction excites the populace, and their intellectual friends in the U.S., the Marxists, do the same every chance they get.
What is the one true purpose of the political mob? It’s to inflame and excite passions in an attempt to intimidate those willing to take a more rational approach.
So are you going to denounce King David, then? By your logic, King David is an irredeemable tyrant who deserves to die. Heck, God and Jesus themselves are that as well, if we are to use your argument
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