Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Marquis de Lafayette: The Hero of Two Worlds" video.

I don't think that's fair to the French. It's rather arrogant of us Americans and other nationals who make such pokes. Really, the French among many other nations establishing a democratic republic from an absolute monarchy was always a difficult thing to pull off and to sustain. The US was only luck in that it had the British's Civil War and resulting constitutional laws to expand on, a constitutional Monarchy. And it wasn't all fancy pants and wonder berries for the US either, entering a civil war just 80 years later. Dutch, a republic during the US Revolutionary War, went back to being a constitutional monarchy that it has remained to this day. Venice and other Italian States were more monarchical or nobility republics a form of constitutional monarchy. Forming a republic isn't easy. It took France almost a century to eventually form a reliable one without it diverting toward an insane conspiracy cranked fueled lunatics like Robespierre or Banana Republic emperor dictator Napoleon. Russia's turned into a blood bath and still today they're in a weird pseudo republic dictatorship monarchy like thing. Germany's and Austria's only happened after World War 1, then it turned into... well we know how that went down. And only After WW2 did they form a long lasting non-monarchical republic. Democracies are still very very very new relative to recorded history. They're much better than all other governmental types to the common person, but difficult to create and to maintain. The French should be given credit, they had to keep trying over and over to develop a republic that would eventually work without turning into some new form of semi-constitutional/absolute monarchy or dictatorship. Their spur to incite revolution shouldn't be mocked. But admired. A democratic republic can only exist and be maintained if the people participate in it.
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