I hope people on both sides of those phrases remember how many benign people were killed during the French Revolution, to say nothing of how many "true believers" were as well (Robespierre was also executed by guillotine).
I hope people on both sides of those phrases remember how many benign people were killed during the French Revolution, to say nothing of how many "true believers" were as well (Robespierre was also executed by guillotine).
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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.
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.