Tea at Trianon: The Democrat Leninist Revolution Is Here

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, April 1, 2019

The Democrat Leninist Revolution Is Here

From The American Thinker:

The Democratic Party's Leninist fundamental transformation is near complete. It was November 6 and 7, 1917 when Lenin and his Russian Bolsheviks led a coup d'état against the Duma's provisional government. The parallels between the Bolshevik takeover, which begat the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the über-leftward turn of the Democratic Party are impossible to ignore. Lenin and the Bolsheviks did not significantly differ ideologically from the Romanov monarchical dynasty they ended with their takeover, or from the Mensheviks, from whom the Bolsheviks spilt in 1903, just as the new Democrats don't differ much from the old Democrats.

In the lead-up to Lenin's hijacking, the various Russian factions all sold iterations of socialism, democratic socialism, and communism. These -isms, at their core, are mostly the same. Lenin sold a revolutionary narrative of a proletariat revolt, in which the political power rests with the peasants and workers, which would evolve into socialism — equal social ownership of all produced by the workers.

Like any collectivist promise, it was all a colossal lie. What Lenin intentionally established was the Communist Party dictatorship, which lasted seven decades. It is, in principle, the same lie propagated by America's Democratic Party and its "democratic socialists." Socialists don't actually believe in the socialism they peddle, just as the Rolls-Royce-owning Lenin didn't believe in the Leninism he peddled. They believe that only everyone else should live under their oppression.

Every post–Industrial Revolution "revolution" is only about unfettered power and is always heavily influenced by Karl Marx, whom Lenin was an acolyte of. There is no war more importantly waged by the "revolutionaries" than a class war — the basis of Marxism. The opiate sold to the masses is that resources and capital are finite, hence the zeal against "capital"-ism, designed to make the masses junkies of the most addictive drug in man's history: government dependency.

The "new" Democrats — U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) — attack at will the "old" Democrats. Omar was perfectly comfortable comparing President Trump with President Obama, calling the former president a "pretty face" whose "hope and change" shtick was utter balderdash.

Tlaib admonished her Democratic Party for the same alleged Islamophobia rampant in the GOP. She also recently fantasized about her enemies floating dead in a river, as she proudly proclaimed that "the Muslims are coming," which is weird, because the Muslims have been here since our Founding. Recall Ocasio-Cortez's "New party, who dis?" dis against former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, who has rendered himself obsolete due to his calls for some ideological balance. Note the wording: "new party." (Read more.)