For those who still believe that america is for socialism marxism and communism (Reagan, death)

[Angel Calzadilla]

It has become fashionable in some quarters 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 the history of the world. (Until Democrats decided to give it away to the Third World.)
The French Revolution was a revolt of the mob. It was the progenitor of the
horrors of the Bolshevik Revolution, Hitler's storm troopers, Mao's Cultural
Revolution, Pol Pot's slaughter and America's periodic mob uprisings, from
Shays' Rebellion to the current attacks on White House employees and Trump
supporters.
The French Revolution is the godless antithesis to the founding of America.
One rather important difference is that Americans did win freedom with their
revolution and created a self-governing 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.
Both revolutions are said to have come from the ideas of Enlightenment
thinkers, the American Revolution influenced by the writings of John Locke
and the French Revolution informed by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This is like saying presidents Reagan and Obama both drew on the ideas of 20th-century economists — Reagan on the writings of Milton Friedman and Obama on the writings of Paul Krugman.
Locke was concerned with private property rights. His idea was that the
government should allow men to protect their property in courts of law, in
lieu of each man being his own judge and executioner. Rousseau saw the
government as the vessel to implement the "general will" and create a new
man. Through power, the government would "force men to be free."
As historian Roger Hancock summarized the theories of the French
revolutionaries, they had no respect for humanity "except that which they
proposed to create." To liberate man, they would "reconstruct his very
humanity to meet the demands of the general will."
Liberals dearly wish our Founding Fathers were more like the godless French
peasants, skipping around with human heads on pikes. But alas, our Founding
Fathers were God-fearing descendants of Puritans and Presbyterians. (And one Catholic!) King George denounced the American Revolution as “ Presbyterian war."
As Stephen Waldman writes in his definitive book on the subject, "Founding
Faith," the American Revolution was "powerfully shaped by the Great
Awakening," an evangelical revival in the Colonies in the early 1700s, led
by famous Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards, among others. Aaron Burr, the third vice president of the United States, was Edwards’ grandson.
There are books of Christian sermons endorsing the revolution. The barbaric
attacks on the church by the French revolutionaries would later appall
Americans and British alike, even before the bloodletting began.
Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, the date our written demand for
independence from Britain was released to the world.
The French celebrate Bastille Day, a day when a thousand armed Parisians
stormed the Bastille and savagely murdered a half-dozen guards, defacing
their corpses and sticking their heads on pikes -- all in order to seize
arms and gunpowder for more such tumults. It would be as if this country had
a national holiday to celebrate the Ferguson riots.
Among the most famous quotes from the American Revolution is Patrick Henry’s "Give me liberty or give me death!" Among the most famous quotes from the French Revolution is the Jacobins’ "Fraternity or death!" Or, as Jacobin Sebastien Nicolas de Chamfort satirized it: “Be my brother or I'll kill
you."
Our revolutionary symbol is the Liberty Bell, rung to summon the citizens of
Philadelphia to a public reading of the just-adopted Declaration of
Independence. The symbol of the French Revolution is the "National Razor"
-- the guillotine.
Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, all died of natural
causes in old age, with the exception of Button Gwinnett of Georgia, who was
shot in a duel unrelated to the revolution.
Only one other founding father died of unnatural causes: Alexander Hamilton,
who did not sign the Declaration of Independence. He died in a duel with
Burr because as a Christian, Hamilton deemed it a greater sin to kill
another man than to be killed. Before the duel, Hamilton vowed in writing
not to shoot Burr.
President after president of our new nation died peacefully for 75 years,
right up until Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
Meanwhile, all the leaders of the French Revolution died violently,
guillotine by guillotine.
The Fourth of July also marks the death of two of our greatest Founding
Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died on the same day, July 4th 1826, exactly 50 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
We made it for nearly another 200 years. And then, for some reason, the
Democrats decided to give our country away to the rest of the world.