re: #267 Sharmuta

These two divergent schools of thought, though, primarily came out of the American and French Revolutions. The French had very different ideas than the Americans in how to best govern their respected societies. Here, we turned to the rule of law. In France, it was the rule of elites. They traded in one elite (a King) for other elites. You still have your elites! Very different sets of circumstances, imo, gave rise to these different schools of thought, but it doesn’t change the facts that now, more than ever, europe needs to learn the value of the rule of law.

Same with the Russians. I knew a Russian who said the Russian Revolution went the way it did because most of the country was used to taking orders from people in Moscow. The Communists replaced the Czars and their court, but the orders still came from a group of people in Moscow.