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are so basic to modern world it's impossible to imagine they were ever revolutionary....and frum/will (whoever) ignores history in order to say, in effect, the wealthy and powerful are better educated and have virtues which us 'common people' lack...we are the 'mob' the great unwashed, ie the easily duped, and if the dupers want to interfere with the top down patriarchy then they are evil- to the extent communism, which enslaved billions and murdered millions (damn them monsters!)- proves. Frump, or was it the geewill(?), made their silly argument in a rightwing neocon newspaper, and it disappeared down the old memory hole (the intellectual perverts' best most trusty asset) One effect of the 'privileged few' running everything is that our understanding of history itself is warped because its writers were hiclass...warped in some cases so badly that guys like Robespierre become synonomous with unreasoned cruelty...but it's interesting to note the french tried to outlaw slavery and planned to give everybody the vote (the 'weirdos' even thought women were entitled!) The entire french revolution has been bad mouthed (see 'tale of 2 cities'by dickens; the scarlet pimpernel etc) and its leaders, Danton, Marat, Robespierre etc, demonised or so obscure few heard of them: nevertheless, though the revolution eventually derailed, Napoleon incorporated many of its best ideas, and they've become universal, at least until reagan began the reversal...that's where frum, geewill, limbo, tweetybird, cnn, foxnews geebush etc come in we needa bring back the gullotine... ;)
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