“Wanted power for their own benefit?”
I give you the popes and good old Louis 14th.
Is your argument that they should have left the power in the hands of the king and his followers?
Sorry, the people storming the Bastille were heroes. The revolution went damned rough later, but the problem wasn’t the people reacting violently to a Monarch. It was the fact that for centuries they lived under a system of government that unjustly dominated their lives, claimed absolute rights to do so, and had no intention of going anywhere.
There is only one way out of that situation.
We should all just thank god that wasn’t needed in America. When our revolution happened, there was no massive seat of Monarchy with thousands of hangers-on to be brought to heel. When we beat the British, we had a free hand to construct a free government in a virgin land. A blessed opportunity.
The same could be said about the Bolsheviks in 1917. I don’t think either group were heroes.
Actually you missed my point entirely.
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