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Photo by   Thomas Curryer   on  Unsplash . . First published on Medium . . The French Revolution ended in death and destruction, then decades of on and off authoritarian monarchs, emperors, and others, oh my! The 1960s slid into Tricky Dick’s downfall, Swans Singing for Vietnam debacle, Disco, Ronnie Reagan, mass incarceration, welfare deformation, W’s Iraq War, and finally Traitor Donnie Trump, a boar bore. Of course, conservatives like to blame the 1960s on other occurrences and changes in society over the last five decades. That said, if we compare what the baby boomers did to what inspired the French Revolution, we can see both clearer. . Obviously, guillotines were never employed during the mid 20th century in the United States. Yet, there was a national, and more intensely, racially construed and pursued,   law and order   clamp down , during and after the riots in Watts, around passage of the civil rights acts, due to Martin Luther King’s murder, and prot...

Complete Real Name of Book… Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization The premise was very strained, like not enough Saran Wrap stretched over a casserole dish that ended up requiring duct tape to hold it together. Gregg doesn’t like liberals, fine. That said, the way he developed the ideas of the philosophes was by employing a very narrow agenda. He wanted to prove their ideas were so bad that we shouldn’t learn about them, or we will turn into Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Mao, and kill a billion people. Yes, some people don’t get their minds fully around new ideas, and become horrible people, maybe due to a philosophy or quotes. Yet religion has spurred people to do bad things, both Christians (Crusades, colonization, slavery, KKK, American Indian boarding schools, W.’s Iraq war, etc.) and Muslims have done it. Rather than going back to Mao or Stalin, consider Trump. He was elected due to a similar mixing up of barely ideas into a terrible soup of nut-so, which he spoo...