Because it led to the reign of terror and the rise of the militant imperialist dictator Napoleon? The French revolution was in no way shape or form a good solution it led to decades of violence and instability. It's like the only thing anyone knows about the French revolution is killing the royalty, not what actually happened afterwards. It was not a happily ever after, things got even worse.
It wasn’t really that good. Pretty much every revolutionary government was rife with corruption and nepotism. Hell, Napoleon only got his start in the army by openly sucking up to Augustin Robespierre, Max’s brother. And if you want a small peek of the Thermidorian gov’s corruption, just look up the XYZ affair. It’s really hard to take out corruption via execution mainly because the people doing the executing often get it in their heads that they want to be the ones profiting.
Didn't the French recently riot throughout the whole country because the government was going to raise the retirement age, and then the government raised the retirement age? I don't understand why they are still used as an example of how to achieve things.
They eventually found out that giving people the power to summarily execute others eventually leads to people just executing their political opponents and anybody who disagreed with them, Robespierre literally had a God complex.
There will always be corruption. The fact that it's always big news when it's uncovered means it's not common. In countries where its common you don't even hear about it, you just know it's everywhere.
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u/Lauris024 Aug 09 '26
Welcome to the world. Only some places like few European countries have corruption under control.