Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Expel the Metrics, Revere the Imperials" video.

Now, do you understand where the metric system originates, and why Americans in the US were so against it, and still are? The French Revolution, which leads directly to socialism. "The metric system is a system of measurement that succeeded the decimalised system based on the metre that had been introduced in France in the 1790s."
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@Adolf_Meowtler "The United States system of units of 1832 is based on the system in use in Britain prior to the introduction to the British imperial system on January 1, 1826. Both systems are derived from English units, a system which had evolved over the millennia before American independence, and which had its roots in both Roman and Anglo-Saxon units. "The customary system was championed by the U.S.-based International Institute for Preserving and Perfecting Weights and Measures in the late 19th century. Some advocates of the customary system saw the French Revolutionary, or metric, system as atheistic. The president of an Ohio auxiliary of the Institute wrote that the traditional units were "a just weight and a just measure, which alone are acceptable to the Lord". His organization later went so far as to publish music for a song proclaiming "down with every 'metric' scheme". "The U.S. government passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, which made the metric system "the preferred system of weights and measures for U.S. trade and commerce". The legislation states that the federal government has a responsibility to assist industry as it voluntarily converts to the metric system, i.e., metrification. This is most evident in U.S. labeling requirements on food products, where SI units are almost always presented alongside customary units. According to the CIA Factbook, the United States is one of three nations (along with Liberia and Myanmar) that have not adopted the metric system as their official system of weights and measures." [SIC] Wiki article The metric system came about over Robespierre's rule, where they also changed their calendar system. Henri de Saint-Simon was one of those revolutionaries, and he and Pierre Leroux were the ones who coined the term socialism and created the idea of that form of government, which included mandatory (forced) labor for everyone. "At the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, Saint-Simon quickly endorsed the revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the early years of the revolution, Saint-Simon devoted himself to organizing a large industrial structure in order to found a scientific school of improvement. He needed to raise some funds to achieve his objectives, which he did by land speculation. This was only possible in the first few years of the revolution because of the growing instability of the political situation in France, which prevented him from continuing his financial activities and indeed put his life at risk. Saint-Simon and Talleyrand planned to profiteer during the Terror by buying the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, stripping its roof of metal, and selling the metal for scrap. Saint-Simon was imprisoned on suspicion of engaging in counter-revolutionary activities. He was released in 1794 at the end of the Terror." "Saint Simon's conceptual recognition of broad socio-economic contribution, and his Enlightenment valorization of scientific knowledge, soon inspired and influenced utopian socialism, liberal political theorist John Stuart Mill, anarchism through its founder Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who was inspired by Saint-Simon's thought and Marxism with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels identifying Saint-Simon as an inspiration to their ideas and classifying him among the utopian socialists. Saint-Simon's views also influenced 20th-century sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen, including Veblen's creation of institutional economics that has included prominent economists as adherents." [SIC] Wiki article
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Garrus Vakarian Many do not understand the history of such things, and the determination of a free nation's people to push back against it. France was, indeed, in need of a new national system, as every town had its own weights and measures. It was truly a screwed-up place before the revolution. However, the US was founded by the English, and it was Christian, which led to the rebellion about the metric system. The major argument was that it was atheistic, which was what the regime of Robespierre really was. Weights and measures are all relative anyhow in what a people wish to use, with those of us who are older understanding both, where converting fractions of an inch is no harder than using the metric system. Machinists and engineers, as an example, have memorized the decimal equivalents of the imperial inch system, which is decimal-based, and hop between it and metric with no problem. The metric system was another thing brought in by Nixon before he left. Nixon was the first neocon president, who had surrounded himself by the founders of neoconservatism known as the New York Intellectuals that were Trotskyites that fled the D Party.
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@Cahnisama The truth is, at the time it was developed in France, other European nations, including Britain, already had the roots of socialism within them over the Protestant Dissenters, and they more easily adopted it over that. The socialists were behind the movement to adopt it, to be rid of the "imperial system," or that of the monarchs and the old three estates, which they wanted to overthrow.
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