The Election Of Donald Trump And The French Revolution

As I watch the liberal elites in Hollywood, academia, politics and the press lose their collective minds, an old adage comes to mind. "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

I look at the left trying to quell the popular uprising around Donald Trump and it makes me think of the French Revolution, with our "elite betters" playing the part of Marie Antoinette. "Let them eat cake" they have told those they wish to lord it over. Paying no attention to the concerns of the masses. The only things that matter to them are their desires for the way they want things to be and what will move their visions forward. If us unwashed heathens don't realize that their betters will decide what's best for us, well then we can just "eat cake".

They never saw the storm clouds on the horizon because they had become so comfortable in their little enclaves of power on the east and west coasts that they never bothered to look out the window. Why would they? They were in power and had been for as long as their goldfish memories could recall.

They had wielded their power over the masses, unabated, for so long, they had come to believe their own bullshit. Anyone failing to toe their line was clearly some sort of radical deviant. How could anyone possibly question anthropomorphic global warming? Even though they had jiggered the data at every turn and it was clear that those pushing it the hardest were amassing huge fortunes from forcing others to comply, all the while suppressing commerce. Since they were in control, what could the peons do?

With the liberals living in their echo chambers, they didn't recognize the thunder of the approaching storm for what it was. They continued to believe their own press releases.

While Hillary and Cain struggled to draw flies to their rallies, Trump and Pence played to packed houses. Yet the tame press tried to tell the country that it was just racists, sexists, homophobes, islamophobes, etc, etc at their rallies. Even though many were the same folks who voted for Obama, twice.

Well, thanks to the new media, the truth of what was happening got out. And despite the old power elites aligning against them, Trump and Pence were swept into power as those who were not being represented or even heard by the elites stood up and said, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" (Thank you Network)

So on November 8th, the media, the elitists, academic leftists and the far left politicians got to play the role of the out of touch French Aristocracy while middle America played the role of the ignored and put upon French people. They figuratively beheaded the beast by sending Hillary to the showers, hopefully for good. And with any luck we've seen the end of the Clintons in American public life.

To those who are crying and moaning about how could the country have not seen how the elites have all the answers if we would just follow them, let me turn their own arrogant words back on them. Elections have consequences and your ways have been rejected.

Or so it would seem to an old farm boy.