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The French Revolution is generally agreed to have started with the third estate forming their own assembly and storming the Bastille a month later to depose the
by BoxFour 2y ago
The French Revolution is generally agreed to have started with the third estate forming their own assembly and storming the Bastille a month later to depose the king.
Whatever you think of Jan 6, we clearly haven't deposed the President nor has any vocal section of Congress formed their own legislature so any argument that the revolution has actually begun seems specious or is stretching the definition of the word "revolution" so much as to be meaningless.
Revolutions usually involve going through a door of no-return, and there's little evidence to suggest we've hit that point. Congress could, tomorrow, announce a wealth tax and sweeping reforms and etc and most aggrievances would be resolved.
We don't say a ball is on the ground just because it's in freefall and likely to be on the ground shortly barring any last-second intervention.
- ttyprintk 2y agoYet the right-wing narrative building since 2016 is that Trump and close legislative allies are counter-revolutionary. “You’re not going to have a country anymore” is not suggesting a return to a 1950s tax regimen.
- BoxFour 2y agoOh here’s my other favorite part of this discussion: Which revolution are we talking about? Left vs right? Wealthy vs poor? Capitalism vs Socialism (yes, that is very different from the previous one)? All extremely different revolutions even if they’re all bubbling to the surface now! Hopefully when the glorious revolution comes, it’s the one people are hoping for and not one of the other ones. There are plenty of people who will find this murder and the reasoning behind it abhorrent but still support violent overthrow of existing power structures.
- ttyprintk 2y agoHearhear. I suppose the first tenet of conservatism in light of the education of founders of America is that rapid change in social order tends to be a net negative. Other preoccupations have been bolted on, but now we see a Republican Party that itself is changing faster than the Democratic Party.