Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling
against the sovereign of the earth, which is the human race.
— Robespierre
Call me crazy, but I believe we'll look back on December 2017 as the month billionaire GOP donors signed their own death warrants.
In 1789, when France's overtaxed 98% decided enough privation was enough, they tore down the Bastille, looted the artisocrats' châteaux, and burned tax collectors' homes.
A month later, they enshrined equal opportunity in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Bye, bye, ancien régime. Hello, guillotine.
Riot and bloody mayhem.
It can't happen here, you say?
Republicanism (small R) runs deep in our history, from Jefferson to Lincoln to Eisenhower to Sanders. It doesn't suffer fat cats.
Criticized by newspapers at the time of waving the "waving the bloody shirt," Douglass warned the audience:
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
