On July 4, remember: We are not French
It has become fashionable to equate the French and American
revolutions, but they share absolutely nothing beyond the word
“revolution.” The American Revolution was a movement based on ideas,
painstakingly argued by serious men in the process of creating what
would become the freest, most prosperous nation in world history.The French Revolution was a revolt of the mob. It was the primogenitor of the horrors of the Bolshevik revolution, Hitler’s Nazi Party, Mao’s cultural revolution, Pol Pot’s slaughter, and America’s periodic mob uprisings from Shays’ rebellion to today’s dirty waifs in the “Occupy Wallstreet” crowd.
The French Revolution is the godless antithesis to the founding of America.
One rather important difference is that Americans did win freedom and greater individual rights with their revolution, creating a republic. France’s revolution consisted of pointless, bestial savagery, followed by another monarchy, followed by Napoleon’s dictatorship and then finally something resembling an actual republic 80 years later.
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