The French Revolution Never Ended. It Moved Into the Public School Classrooms.

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14 July 2026
The French Revolution Never Ended. It Moved Into the Public School Classrooms.
While the French suffer a humiliating defeat on the pitch, their bloody, atheistic revolution has successfully metastasized in the American education system.
Brian O’Leary

Every July, the left demands that Westerners bow their heads in reverence to Bastille Day. In enclaves of progressive radicalism like Portland, Oregon, this correspondent’s hometown and a city long ago surrendered to the suffocating grip of leftist groupthink, the citizenry mindlessly applauds a foreign revolution.

A local blogger penned a marvelous piece of leftist propaganda this morning, urging the seal-clapping public to hoist their metric-measured beverages toward Paris. It is fitting that they embrace the metric system, itself a godless base-ten construct, stripped of human scale and tradition, perfectly mirroring the cold, bureaucratic atheism of the revolution they celebrate.

They toast to “Liberté, égalité, fraternité,” willfully blind to the historical reality that this slogan was baptized in the blood of the innocent.
What these progressive strongholds celebrate is not a triumph of freedom fighters over a tyrannical monarchy, but the civilizational rot of the West. The French Revolution was an unmooring of decency in the public square, orchestrated by a murderous mass of French psychopaths. It was the physical manifestation of the Enlightenment ideology that preceded it.

Intellectual arsonists like Voltaire provided the ammunition, advocating for the destruction of the Catholic Church and the suppression of the divine in society.
The revolutionary blueprint was carved in religious persecution. When the French revolutionaries passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, it was an attempt at complete ideological conquest. They dismantled the monarchy, seized Church assets, drove tens of thousands of priests into exile, and executed hundreds.

At Nantes, the horrors unfolded with shocking clarity. Catholic priests, nuns, and innocent families were drowned in the Loire River at the hands of revolutionary forces, an act of religious cleansing that radical Jacobin Jean-Baptiste Carrier gleefully dubbed “the national bathtub.”

Portland ignores history, even as a different Franco-Spanish clash unfolds today. Just before this dispatch was put to bed, the referee’s final whistle blew, and the French national soccer team lost two-nil to the Spanish in the semifinals of the World Cup. Watching this contest, the astute observer sees the parallels between the nations on the pitch and the bloody legacy of the European continent.

The prelude to the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s was a direct descendant of the madness of the French Revolution. In Spain, rampant leftism and secular humanist zealotry resulted in the slaughter of thousands of priests, monks, and nuns. It was a repetition of the Jacobin terror, a deliberate attempt to erase the Christian foundation of a nation.

It took Generalissimo Francisco Franco to step into the breach, cleaning up the Marxist mess, halting the secular slaughter, and making Spain ascendant once more. Franco understood that a nation detached from its faith is a nation destined for the abyss.

Today, a half-century after Franco’s passing, Spain has surrendered its hard-won soul, spiraling back into a dismal morass of socialism and a predominantly leftist worldview.

Yet, the revolutionary cancer that ravaged France and Spain did not remain confined to Europe. It spread across the Atlantic, finding a new host in the American educational system. The ghosts of Robespierre’s acolytes now stalk the classrooms of the United States. What began in 1789 did not end with Napoleon’s rise. Across the West, it metastasized, lodging itself in the heart of academia.

The Cult of Reason, a state-sponsored atheistic movement that sought to replace Catholicism with a civic religion, has been resurrected by modern educational bureaucrats. Progressive school reformers like John Dewey rejected all mention of God, making it their mission to replace the divine with secular humanism. Dewey worshipped democracy and saw government schools as his new churches.

The result is the vacuous totalitarianism of bureaucratic atheism seen today. It is a regime where Christian symbols are outlawed while pride flags are mandated, traditional holidays are swapped for “winter celebrations,” and the government school apparatus demands authority over the moral formation of youth through diversity training and climate hysteria.

Forgotten Americans who send their children to these institutions of secular indoctrination face the same choice that confronted French Catholics in 1793: submit or resist.

The revolutionary fervor that toppled altars in Paris now topples traditional values in classrooms across America. The revolutionaries understood that controlling education meant controlling the future, targeting the Church because they recognized a truth modern secularists also understand. Christianity is the very foundation of our cultural inheritance.

The current leftist onslaught against our heritage, faith, and history is a deliberate echo of the prelude to the Spanish Civil War and the French Revolution. The aggressive secularism, the destruction of historical monuments, the ideological capture of institutions, and the relentless heterodoxy are the unmistakable symptoms of a society on the precipice of ruin.

Our civilization stands at a terrifying crossroads. It simply cannot afford another such cataclysmic event. The battle for the minds of the next generation is a continuation of a centuries-old war against the soul of the West.

If the modern Jacobins are allowed to succeed, if the Cult of Reason is permitted to completely extinguish the faith and traditions that built the modern world, the Occident will not slip into decline. It will perish.