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re: History: French Revolution
Posted on 1/21/21 at 2:14 pm to GhostOfFreedom
Posted on 1/21/21 at 2:14 pm to GhostOfFreedom
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Do we have any of the same conditions that led to that horrific revolution?
Not really
The first and Second Estate in France paid no taxes and were granted a privileged life under French law. The Third Estate - which was 97% of the population - paid all the taxes and held only 60% of the land.
In the US, the rich pay all the taxes. Not the other way around.
Not to mention, the Third Estate just literally voted the Second Estate back into office. In France, in 1789, the common people loathed the nobility. In the US, the commoners worship the nobility.
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Posted on 1/21/21 at 2:39 pm to Antonio Moss
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In the US, the commoners worship the nobility.
We worship the bourgeois elite, rich but culturally middle class people, who run the country, people like Biden, or Obama.
We did have a nobility at one point - people like Jefferson and Washington. But they are long since gone.
This post was edited on 1/21/21 at 2:41 pm
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