“Make France Lafayette Again” is a more historically interesting, if not a better, meme than “No Kings.”
What good news for the world when America was born with the help of France in the 18th century.
After winning crucial battles, and helping to fund, the American Revolution, before he was 25, Lafayette worked with Thomas Jefferson on “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” during the French Revolution. He supported the abolition of slavery. He was chased out of France by French Revolution extremists and the Austrian army caught him in the Netherlands and threw him in jail for 5 years. (Ah! Europe!)
President James Monroe invited Lafayette to the United States in 1824, where he visited all 24 states to a deserved hero’s welcome. A young Poe was in one of the Lafayette parades.
When Lafayette died, and France allied herself with Opium Wars Britain in the 19th century under Napoleon III, the world fell apart.
During the American Civil War, France was in Mexico. Britain and her ally, France, told the Confederacy “you win some battles and we’ll recognize you” leading to a 3 year Robert E. Lee meat-grinder, from which the United States has never quite recovered.
France’s Salon des Refuses (avant-garde art) in the 1870s was a French government act, killing history painting; preferring color-ist art to better hide international crimes.
France since then has pretty much led the way in destroying classical art and conservative values. Khomeini arrived in Iran from Paris. Pol Pot studied in France. Jean-Paul Sartre (“hell is other people”) and Simone de Beauvoir (“one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”) are your typical, 20th Century French intellectuals.
Rapacious, snobby, Europe (Britain’s monarch was the monarch of India until the middle of the 20th century) has been the academic standard for American intellectuals—since the libeled author Poe was murdered in 1849.
The Armory Show, which brought Duchamp and modern (French) art to America in the dark days which culminated in World War One, was facilitated by John Quinn, an Irishman, who joined British intelligence as an associate of Aleister Crowley, and was an attorney for T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. The American public greeted the new art in the Armory Show with, “this is crap!” But they would soon be instructed.
American who aspire to be “educated” are inhibited by deep shame (“we’re just hillbillies”) and still grovel, for many complex reasons, before European “theory.”
The magazine “Vanity Fair” is a typical snobby example of Americans succumbing to everything Europe. Of course their politics is far-weird-Left.
Americans who did resist the pull of Europe were merely funneled into the American avant-garde, trapped in the bottom of William Carlos Williams’ red wheelbarrow.
America fueled Europe’s two world wars with Texas and Pennsylvania crude—Europe was all too happy to go to America for gas and muscle and make their “dumb cousin” be the fall guy for everything. Britain stole Iran’s oil, but the United States (far less imperial, in truth, than greedy, insane Europe) became the “great Satan.” It didn’t hurt that MI6 trained the American-hating CIA.
American presidents: Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, basically boobs. JFK’s father was ambassador to England. JFK, therefore, had some class. But Americans had no class. One still looked to Europe for that. And America couldn’t even keep their one classy president alive.
France: “Hey, U.S. we failed in Vietnam, you give it a try.” U.S. “OK!”
European intellectuals do the talking. USA, you listen.
But there’s been a steady erosion of European brains and morality since Lafayette lost the handle on the French Revolution, the Lafayette who in 1824 visited the widow of Poe’s revolutionary war hero grandfather when he toured the U.S.
America should bring back the rigor of “Philosophy of Composition” Poe, swept away by “Make It New.”
I know, I know, we do so love a good English accent! It makes a person sound so smart! (Prince Andrew. Simon Cowell. Tony Blair.)
Oh, this bowing and scraping before Europe.
A New Yawk accent is perfectly fine.
Maybe we could stop chanting USA! USA! USA! and instead whisper, “United States of America! United States of America! United States of America!”
Maybe that wouldn’t work.
But conservatives need to have a march and print hats that say,
“Make France Lafayette Again”
Let’s gooooooo!
Scarriet 