Wretchard continues to do a singular service for an extended community. It’s clearly a trans-national community he attracts, in that it comprises people from a number of nations. But it’s made up mostly of people satisfied that while the trans-national Socialist progressives have failed spectacularly with their schemes, the Westphalian system of sovereign nation states continues to produce a robust and generally wholesome international community.

I am guilty here of posting a lot of alarmist and pessimistic comments, for which I apologize.

It doesn’t take a lot of insight or wisdom to pierce the veil of a lot of scams, whether they are petty or grand. But you have to be willing to trust your judgment, take off the blinders, and finally to ACT.

We must act resolutely, but with great restraint. I do not advocate violent acts, but I do advocate determined and vigorous resistance to the daily violations of established legislation, precedents, regulations, and legislative procedures by people who were elected to serve finite terms, and who swore to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution.

The Marxist radicals currently misruling the U.S. give hourly evidence of commitment to policies so outrageous to the majority that they are clearly intended to provoke violent reaction. These delusionals truly believe they have the right, and they truly believe they have the wisdom and means to control and direct whatever passions and energies they unleash by their provocations.

In this, as in everything else, they are children playing with unexploded ordnance.

The French revolution contrasts horribly with the U.S. Maybe it’s more comparable to the U.S. “Civil War.” A prominent aspect of the French Revolution is the momentum that took over the vengeful bloodletting. Thousands of people beheaded in front of cheering crowds… everyone seems to know about that. But fewer seem to be aware of other atrocities far greater, such as the suppression of the Catholics (protesting the harsh treatment of their priests) and allied Royalists in the Vendeé coastal region south of the river Loire. Republican forces sent during 1793-95 to put down these “counter-revolutionaries” are estimated to have killed between 117,000 to 450,000 men, women, and children – at any rate, some 15 percent of the region’s population – over a period of just about two years.

Once the bloodletting begins, it takes on a life of its own.

In particular, people always use the chaos of civil strife and upheaval as an opportunity to settle old scores and grievances, real and imagined.

I invite readers to do a search on the name “General François Joseph Westermann.”