Funny how all of the democrats conducting oversight visits have the same exact findings. Almost like they were given talking points from leadership to regurgitate while performing some normal activity like driving home from said facility. Performance Art at its finest.
Devoured by the Revolution I: The Jacobins
The Fever:
During the French Revolution, the Jacobins spoke in holy words: virtue, equality, justice, the people, the future. By 1793, those words had become death warrants. The revolution did not need criminals for long. It only needed categories.
The Use:
The mob supplied the muscle. Clubs, pamphlets, denunciations, tribunals, street pressure, and the guillotine made accusation into government. A man could be marked by class, friendship, hesitation, or silence. Innocence mattered less than usefulness to the spectacle.
The Turn:
Maximilien Robespierre was the Jacobin high priest of purity, the man who helped justify the Terror in the name of virtue. But by 1794, the machine had become too dangerous even for the men who built it. Every faction feared it would be next. Every rival understood that purity had become a weapon no one could safely hold.
So they struck first.
Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthon, and scores of their allies were arrested and sent to the same guillotine they had made sacred.
The Lesson:
Modern revolutionaries imagine they will control the machine because their hatred feels moral. They never understand that purity does not stabilize power. It makes everyone fear being named the next impurity.
The revolution promises justice, then teaches the crowd to count heads. Modern communists would do well to remember this lesson.
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