tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post8402873945819963190..comments2024-03-19T11:28:58.168-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Tocqueville - In ConclusionDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-60709191618328545602017-01-09T10:17:23.780-05:002017-01-09T10:17:23.780-05:00Professor
Great commentary.
I may have to read ...Professor<br />Great commentary. <br /><br /><br />I may have to read Tocqueville some day. Should have done so long ago...<br /><br /><br /><br />The Democratic Revolution, successful first and most fully here, failed to meet the ideals either of the reforming Enlightenment aristocrats and monarchs who first inspired it, or of the republican and Jacobin common men, and common colonists here, who transformed and ultimately benefitted most from it, to the ultimate detriment of everyone in the West. <br /><br />There are a lot of reasons for that rather pessimistic conclusion. I can't go into them all here, obviously.<br /> <br />The Revolution 'from above' would probably have served everyone better in the long run here in the West. <br /><br />Most people in the US, long steeped in anarchic democratic or laissez faire economic ideals now, will heatedly disagree. That does not bother me.<br /><br />All the best<br /><br /><br /> <br />Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com