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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: This is how a political party dies:Trump, Sanders, and the collapse of our failed party elites [View all]Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)41. Not sure you want to adopt Dr. Antoine Louis' infamous invention
as the symbol for your anticipated and much touted "Political Revolution".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror#The_Terror
The Terror (French: la Terreur), was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and The Mountain, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris),[2] and another 25,000 in summary executions across France. ...
The guillotine (called the "National Razor"
became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité (Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans), and Madame Roland, and others such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade. During 1794, revolutionary France was beset with conspiracies by internal and foreign enemies.
The guillotine (called the "National Razor"
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"A key remaining question is whether it will come to THIS or not. They certainly deserve no less."
Not convinced that the majority of the American public would follow you down this route.
You're advocating a Terror-style overthrow of TPTB, heh?
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