The Gadfly
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- Feb 7, 2011
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Sallow and Truthmatters, you've done a good job educating on this thread.
The French Revolution is not a model for anyone, PC. It's an object lesson.
You're so busy trying to figure out a way to attack OWS that you completely miss the reasons for revolutions. You seem to believe that they are simply misbehavior by those who ought to know their place. You fail to realize that people reach a tipping point. You fail most spectacularly to realize that people-poor unnamed people-were dying from starvation before the revolution ever started.
The French Revolution, the Russian revolution, Gandhi's movement for India's independence, the Civil Rights movement, all of these have one thing in common-people had been pushed to their limit by tyranny. Real tyranny. Not "I don't want my taxes to pay for museums and schools" Tea Party tyranny. This is not to say that the French Revolution was good. It is to say that it was inevitable.
Sure sounds like the left wants a replay of the French Revolution to me; "See this is what you're gonna get if we don't get our way! You conservatives better be afraid!" That's what you meant to say, is it not? Well no, Sallow, I'm not afraid at all, because one thing I know about the American Left, is that like that avatar of yours, it's far more bark than bite. Your hippie progenitors were going to start a revolution too-how did that work out? The vast majority of you have neither the stomach nor the training for a real fight; all you have, is screeching and bluster. Just those people on the right, described as bitterly clinging to guns and religion, have considerably more capability than your side does in that department. I eagerly await your revolution of the masses; if this OWS crowd is any indication what we'll be up against, I'm not at all worried about the outcome. This is your "revolutionary army"? It wouldn't last an hour in a rock-throwing contest, much less a battle!