The Mob, We the People, and Arrogant Aristocrats � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

The Mob, We the People, and Arrogant Aristocrats � ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):

…..Our use of the terms “Left” and “Right” originated in the days of the French Revolution “when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president’s right and supporters of the revolution to his left.”

While it is indisputably true that the French left-wing was responsible for monumental bloodshed and terror, it would be a mistake to think that the right-wing was pure as the driven snow. There would have been no revolution had the French aristocracy not been largely arrogant a—holes. They were certainly no friend to the people. Link
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