Yes, we should try to avoid the Judge Dredd Futzie Syndrome which has infected the “progressives” going back to Plato’s Republic and the Long Walls of Athens.
I want to Establish World Peece, Free all the Umptie Candeees, and KILL EVERYBODY!!
That’s how it always ends up with a “socialist” revolution.
Every. Single. Time.
Seen in that light, I’ve always been struck by just what a “black swan” event the American Revolution really was.
It was possibly the one Revolution in history that did not degenerate into a “Kill Everybody and Scream Incoherently” abattoir.
If our post-modern progressives have their way, that is exactly what their “Radiant Future” will be.
Because as Callahan said of Scorpio, they’ll do it because they like it.
RE your comment about the American one not being a “black swan” event, that’s a good observation. This is as much due to the temperament of the general populace, as the more well-known “founders” of the day. Word was often passed down between churches in different towns and it took quite awhile for colonists in South Carolina to feel a unity with someone in Boston. But the time was perfect (“ordained” almost) for that feeling to grow, tobacco farmer to tin smith.
I’d recommend “American Insurgents, American Patriots” by T.H. Breen to the Kommentariat here.
The genius of the Founding Fathers was that they preferred leaders such as John Adams to his brother Sam Adams.
Both were Patriots, but one was a servant leader of the first magnitude and the other a world class rabble rouser.
Or as King George said of George Washington at the end of his second term: “If he turns down being crowned King, he is the greatest man who ever lived.”
Too often we forget that. Washington had a chance to be king – his army offered it to him. He wisely refused. And after two terms as President, long before Congress approved the Twenty-second Amendment limiting Presidents to two terms, on March 21, 1947, George Washington established the precedent that on precedent by refusing to run for a third term.
Agree with you completely EON…….HOWEVER…..I think setting up a guillotine either on the National Mall or at the top of the stairs to the SCOTUS and publicly executing a few of the gutless, scum-sucking, soulless P’sOS who pushed all the hate and divisiveness that ultimately resulted in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, might not be such a bad idea!!!!!!!
Amen. String that assassin up in the middle of the mall. Then, draw and quarter the carcass, no grave, gibbets with the remainder. Let that sink in to the furry-minded, trans-crazy sects. “I don’t like it any more than uou do. But he wants it, so he gets it.”
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Yes, we should try to avoid the Judge Dredd Futzie Syndrome which has infected the “progressives” going back to Plato’s Republic and the Long Walls of Athens.
That’s how it always ends up with a “socialist” revolution.
Every. Single. Time.
Seen in that light, I’ve always been struck by just what a “black swan” event the American Revolution really was.
It was possibly the one Revolution in history that did not degenerate into a “Kill Everybody and Scream Incoherently” abattoir.
If our post-modern progressives have their way, that is exactly what their “Radiant Future” will be.
Because as Callahan said of Scorpio, they’ll do it because they like it.
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RE your comment about the American one not being a “black swan” event, that’s a good observation. This is as much due to the temperament of the general populace, as the more well-known “founders” of the day. Word was often passed down between churches in different towns and it took quite awhile for colonists in South Carolina to feel a unity with someone in Boston. But the time was perfect (“ordained” almost) for that feeling to grow, tobacco farmer to tin smith.
I’d recommend “American Insurgents, American Patriots” by T.H. Breen to the Kommentariat here.
The genius of the Founding Fathers was that they preferred leaders such as John Adams to his brother Sam Adams.
Both were Patriots, but one was a servant leader of the first magnitude and the other a world class rabble rouser.
Or as King George said of George Washington at the end of his second term: “If he turns down being crowned King, he is the greatest man who ever lived.”
Too often we forget that. Washington had a chance to be king – his army offered it to him. He wisely refused. And after two terms as President, long before Congress approved the Twenty-second Amendment limiting Presidents to two terms, on March 21, 1947, George Washington established the precedent that on precedent by refusing to run for a third term.
Agree with you completely EON…….HOWEVER…..I think setting up a guillotine either on the National Mall or at the top of the stairs to the SCOTUS and publicly executing a few of the gutless, scum-sucking, soulless P’sOS who pushed all the hate and divisiveness that ultimately resulted in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, might not be such a bad idea!!!!!!!
Robespierre’s Law: Power you give government to do unto others will be used to do unto you.
I’d rather we not rediscover that the hard way.
I see no law against public execution. It has legal precedent here in the USA.
It should be done for the right reasons: eg: assassins.
Amen. String that assassin up in the middle of the mall. Then, draw and quarter the carcass, no grave, gibbets with the remainder. Let that sink in to the furry-minded, trans-crazy sects. “I don’t like it any more than uou do. But he wants it, so he gets it.”
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