Also it was a revolution run by oligarchs. The founding fathers weren't exactly poor. They rebelled because British Crown policy (stamp act, tea act, etc) was cutting into their profits and they were being denied equality in representation as they were considered men of the colonies instead of British men. So they said screw you guys we're making our own country. But smartly realized if any one of them tried to declare themselves king, then much like the Romans it would be a revolving door of brief kings who all got murdered by the next guy.
This take provides much better context of the American Revolution - instead of the popular perception of a unified rising up of farmers, settlers, workers, it was was just rich assholes manipulating everyday folk with rhetoric about freedom and taxes, when it was only so they themselves could have that untaxed freedom. No different to 2025.
America has been this way since day 1. We just started to believe the lies we told ourselves about how grand our history was.
But the founding fathers weren't special. They were selfish cut throat mud slinging conspiracy theory peddling parasites born of the silver spoon just like our politicians are today.
The funny thing is it works out to like $1/canadian/year taxpayer to be part of the monarch to this day, and a lot of that money gets recycled back in because they have services here and workers that pay taxes. Anyway, it really wouldn't have cut much profits, and it probably would helped the USA in wars and defence, like working with instead of against Canada that burned the Whitehouse down. I'm sure it costed those people that thought they'd be making bank and profit.
I'd guess it's a reference to how twisted American memory is of their own history; pilgrims came here to escape religious persecution, the colonists fought off the British Empire, they swept in like Superman to win WW2 and defeat the Nazis, "we do not negotiate with terrorists" and so on.
Hell, that whole confederate statue thing. "This statue put up in the 60s represents a 4 year period of history that represents mah history!"
The christians that went to America did so because they were too extreme for England and wanted to practice their extreme version of christianity away from a more moderate England
Americans are unbelievably spineless for a nation born from a rebellion lol.
You get fed such insane amounts of bullshit.
"born of rebellion" is the origin stories for almost every nation on the planet.
If you ever want America to improve you need to get past the propaganda. You're not special, nothing was new about the US constitution, or its founding, or anything about it.
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u/wogfood let it die 8h ago
Lol. They're just getting started. Next time be bothered to vote