I remember a discussion, long ago with an old mate, about Revolutions. Were they good or bad?
I took the side of Bad.
I argued that overall, over history, revolutions had not turned out well. Not the French Revolution. Nor the Soviet one. And certainly not the Maoist one.
On the other side there's the US revolution against the British colonial overlords. Which I'll concede is in the positive-revolutions column. But not too many.
I later looked up "Revolutions" in Wikipedia and found a long list, with a kind of grading system as to how they'd turned out. Which supported my view: most had not turned out well. That article, though, is no longer there. Such is the fate of certain views, no matter how fact-backed, in pre-revolutionary times.
Above, Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, looks at some of the insanity on the streets of the United States, especially in Minnesota, the hysteria over the legal operations of ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Police. The crowd. Its rage. Its violence. Its immunity to logic. The signs of the French Revolution right there. And many in that mob calling for exactly that. It is incipient.
One worries about the US. I worry about the US. Having been a long time cheer leader of the US. Now worried that there are forces at work that may destroy even this so-strong superpower.
Sigh....
