Thoughts
For those not as up-to-date on the French Revolution or the Nix drama, the Nix foundation has recently convened a “constitutional assembly”
to create a democratic governance structure.
Now, a lot of the French Revolution was unavoidable, like a rubber band that’s been pulled too tight, there’s no easy to dissipate that tension. However, in my opinion, there was one major blunder that increased the chaos of the revolutionary period in France unnecessarily, and that was the decision by the National Constituent Assembly to make its own 1,300 members ineligible for the government organization that it created to replace itself, the Legislative Assembly. This seems noble or reasonable at first—like George Washington refusing to re-run for president. But this meant that the new government in the Legislative Assembly was composed almost entirely of people who were not “on board” with its creation—people who were too unpopular to have been elected 3 years earlier.
For some reason my brain has decided to connect these events.
Synergy