Did Democrats learn About the French Revolution?

@lakewhut
Learn history before slinging mud

Many Democrats are well educated and studied the French Revolution.
There is nothing similar about the current civil unrest in the USA and the French Revolution.

#1 No one is trying to overthrow a monarch who rules by divine right
#2 We have no official Estates or classes in the USA
#3 All adult citizens are free to vote, although Republicans nationwide are trying to make it harder to do so
#4 We have no official state religion to threaten the mob with hell or purgatory for not obeying the Divine Right monarch.
#5 The Press and social media is not subject to the monarch’s censorship and coverage is LIVE, not delayed and available to the few who were literate (as in France of the 1780S).

You need to get a life and stop wasting time with conspiracy theories

1. It is politically incorrect to study ancient history, especially of civilizations that were deficient by 21st century standards. Since most dumb ideas have been tried previously, if politicians studied history they would have to give up all their favorite proposals and would be truely bored, and would have to come up with no, and probably worse, dumb ideas.

2. However not overreacting to a mob has much that can be said for it. What if, on Jan. 6, the Capitol Police and National Guard and opened fire and killed a few dozen unarmed, but rioting, protesters? Past examples of excessive force have often backfired (e.g. Boston 1770, Amritsar 1919, St. Petersburg 1905). If a mob is angry, one should find a way to address their grievances without making matter worse.

@lakewhut

Wrong again, what a surprise.
Yes I have studied the aftermath of the French Revolution. Not all was a disaster.
Not fond of public beheadings or the reign and wars of Napoleon.
I did like the emptying of the Bastile.

Revolution is a change that can return to the beginning. The French started and ended with a King named Louis.

To: Lakewhut

The mob on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 were hardly Communists. Ask what would have happened if the police mowed them down. You would have dozens of martyrs, and the “deplorables” would be in open revolt against the government.

Consider the three examples I cited above. What if in 1905, on “Bloody Sunday”, instead of opening fire, the Czar politely accepted the petition, and told his staff to act on aspects that were tolerable. I doubt that anyone other than historians of failed Marxist movements would know who Lenin, Stalin or Trotsky were.

I don’t say one should “appease” a mob. But one can “catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”, and most mobs, by nature, are easily subverted and redirected.

The topic should be reworded Learn from the Aftermath of the French Revolution, the Reign of Terror. It happened in Iraq if there is a vaccum in leadeship, insurgents take over. The Torah warns us not to destroy the kenanim fast as the wild animals will take over.

ctlawyer >> the Trumpsters who invaded the Capitol and belong in prison for life?

Same thing happened in Germany. You can not win an argument who is worse – Nazis or Commies.
We should not use excesses on the other side as a reason to destroy what works in the country.

>> Law enforcement will make sure that they do not succeed.

this is 9-1-1. Sorry nobody can answer your phone right now, as we were all dismissed for being insensitive. Good luck, hope you can deal with your problems yourself.