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Just wanted to clue you into how an actual revolution may play out. The commies & leftists in the French and Russian revolution seemed to run the same playbook and there are discernable patterns.
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Exploitation. take pre-existing resentments and tension and exacerbate them. So the French peasants & Russian serfs were under-represented and hungry and suffering. In America, the tensions they are attempting to exploit is race relations. whites are the new bourgeios. the crisis that may make things worse would be economic collapse / inflation / collapse of dollar.
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Crisis. open armed revolt that overthrows the King / Czar and setting up a replacement government by the revolution. Bolsheviks in Russia, Jacobins in France.
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Civil war. The French jacobins had to fight monarchists, UK, Germans, Italians. Bolshevik reds had to fight White russians, UK, USA, Czechs.
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Terror. In France you have the 'Reign of Terror' and in Russian you have the 'Red Terror' to kill anyone who is against the revolution where hundreds of thousands / millions died from secret police or starvation.
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Eating their own. The revolutionaries turn against each other. Robespierre was killed by his fellow jacobins. Stalin purged the bolsheviks and had Trotsky killed.
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Strongman eventually takes control and all this talk about equality and liberty turns out to be a farce. Napoleon becomes Emperor in France and Stalin becomes the Socialist Dictator.
By overthrowing the government, the revolutionaries just created a power vacuum where a popular general (Napoleon) or well-connected dictator (Stalin) could take control. Revolutions are NEVER clean and almost always lead to massive bloodshed and the eventual need, the NEED, for a strongman to restore order.
Problem. Reaction. Solution.
Thesis. Anti-thesis. Synthesis.
Pray this does not happen to America.
It is true the cases you cited, however:
There was a revolution in the late 1700s that instead turned to one of liberty and freedom - that of one American Revolution.
What we would hope is if it came to a Second American Revolution, we have learned our lessons from our Founding Fathers to not take the route you cover in your post.
We call it the American Revolution, but it was a rebellion, a war of secession, much like the South in the War Between the States. The colonists didn’t seek to overthrow or replace the monarchy, only to separate from it. Likewise, the South didn’t try to overthrow the American government and replace it. It is a fine distinction. America has not had a true revolution yet. God help us if we do!