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unlike then, today global mobility is within the means of most the western world. A French Revolution today could very well extend globally to identify and re p
by bushbaba 2y ago
unlike then, today global mobility is within the means of most the western world. A French Revolution today could very well extend globally to identify and re patriot.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> French Revolution today could very well extend globally to identify and re patriot We have zero historical or contemporary precedent for this, and strong incentives for everyone else in the world to not play along. (As they did in sheltering the French aristocracy.) In a hypothetical American revolution, foreign powers would be looking for their slice of the pie. To think through this dispassionately, imagine civil war breaking out in Russia or China. A second American revolution à la the first would put today’s billionaires and political elite in a room to draft a new constitution to their liking.