Pretty much every war in history has been about control over parts of supply and demand cycles with new money vs old money. The founding fathers were being blocked by the old money.
Washington was very self aware. He knew eventually he'd be judged as a slave owner and didn't want it hidden. We will judge eventually the same way but that's the nature history. We become pariahs or our sins are washed away.
It seems like places that acknowledge the truth as much as they can progress the fastest and the places that forget them do not.
That's the big problem with maga to me, the fill the airways with shit. Most neonazis haven't read both hitlers books. And if people start forgetting genocides, I don't see us progressing. The Chinese are at like 8000 or something silly total COVID deaths officially and spent an extra year and half fighting it because they were bsing records that's a recent example.
Tldr the minute we consider the founding fathers better than us, we are screwed.
Washington was just as guilty as anyone else. The mythology surrounding him was of this great Military leader. Washington was half the General his French Counterparts were. There was a signed confession of him having a French diplomat assassinated. That should have been a career-ending blunder but the US heirarchy was already sufficiently designed that people who fed their own legends could fail upward. And its these failures we have nearly deified, as opposed to the actual revolutionary minds of the day that have been buried under Nationalist History.
The problem with MAGA is not new. It's been done by every tyrannical heirarchy. Capitalize on the ignorance of the proletariat. Use the human gravitation to Faith heroes against us. Our Founding mythos is the root of the problem, because it is our National religion, not Christianity. Christian Nationalists wouldnt be such a threat without the Nationalism, because immediately they force the conversation to be simple:
- Do you value the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, everything that stands for?
Once you capitulate to this the follow-up is going to be them telling you how all that was influenced by Christianity, so it's ok that Chirstianity comes to dominate your life. I mean it already was and you take no issue with it, right?
This is narrative control 101.
The people who ACTUALLY stood against tyranny in the US didnt capitulate to that. They were bold enough to be Americans more in the likeness of Paine and Shays. Tyranny is wrong, it doesnt matter if it's a pauedo-democratic elected official or a Duke. Anyone who lives within the territory of a Narion deserves their say in how it's run. The Founding Fathers set up the same old protected classes just with different labels and titles, and took a lot of credit for sh*t England and France were already doing. Some of them had the nerve to speak of freedom while the Mothers of their own children were clasped in chains. The people who stood against this were often persecuted, financially ruined, executed, and imprisoned. That's American Revolution, it's a revolution of thought, not some exaggerated battles.
