REVOLUTIONARIES AND RULERS | 2006-06-01
I get the impression that each revolution is made by one group and then taken over by another.
Sam Adams had a LOT to do with the Bston Tea Party and he formed the Liberty Boys. His brother became president, but Sam had nothing to do with governing once the revolution got under way.
Southern history was wiped off the books in 1865, but Christopher Gadsden had the same role in the states down here, and he, too, disappeared from history.
Patrick Henry had no role in the government. The author of Common Sense, who had most to do with gettting public opinion on the side of outright independence, was likewise no part of government.
This rule is even sharper in Europe. The revolutionaries in France ended up making Napolean emperor.
Those who overthrew the Tsar made for Lenin's tyranny that made the Czar look childish.
I have been keeping you abreast of a running dialogue between me and the guy on Stormfront, bless his lion heart
.
He is a good illustration of the people who help make revolutions and then disappear.
He asked me for a statement of what MY policies would be if ***I*** had to take power.
I've been there.
In the end, all he was really interested in was the latest news about what Cheney planned to do in Saudi Arabia. He kept trying to get me to admit that if I was perfectly willing to force us, and nobody else, to give us oil at reasoable prices by a threat of force, I was really just like Cheney.
I think revolutionaries more or less die when the revolution occurs. Their minds are still back with how to be different from what they overthrew, certain words trigger emotions in them from the past.
In a revolution the name of hte game is that the past is OVER.
So governing AFTER a revolution is something entirely different.
When the Reagan Revolution was supposed to happen in 1981, those who had been in its making had no clue of what to do next. They ended the oil crisis right quickly and they took down the Soviet Union and they ended stagflation, three pretty good accomplishments for one political takeover, but the word on the street today is that nothing happened.
Each of those accomplishments was simply a result of ending the dumbass liberal policies that CAUSED those problems.
After that, Reagan's crowd had no policy OF THEIR OWN.
So the "Revolution" dribbled away.
When you ask someone like me what MY policy is, I am not reading the latest scandals on how mean Cheney is.
I could take over the presidency or advise a new president after the present crowd is tossed out.
Revolutionaries can't.
And that is a major part of world history in one quick lesson.