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PH Tollbooth's avatar

Political order depends less on universal agreement than on a settled answer to one question: who gets the final word when agreement fails?

kurt klingbeil's avatar

consider the so-called Declaration of Independence...

It was in fact a Declaration of Unilateral Abrogation of

Imperial Colonial Branch Operation Agreements

The colonies started on pretty tenuous economic grounds

and came close to collapse / default / abandonment

The growth of cash-crops like cotton (which was initially cultivated by white indentured immigrants

but given the high rate of demise due to malaria in the hot fetid swamps hence the need to import black slaves from malaria-ridden regions in Afrika for their immunity)

and tobacco - (deliberately targetted at the unwashed hordes because of its addictive nature)

succeeded

Loan agreements were made and undertakings to the Crown and special dispensations and commitments of Military force to "soften up the locals"

Once the economics were stable and profitable, the colonials resented paying the tributes to the Crown and at some point summarily decided to "Pull It"

Of course it was expedient to wrap all that in bullshit sophistry about "taxation without representation"

Look you monkeys - you were colonials - wards of the crown - the most unwashed of the unwashed hordes and somehow feel entitled to TheVote and stuff ?

Of course The RedCoats are Coming The RedCoats are Coming - to enforce the colonial branch operation agreements - just like if a McDonalds franchisee decided he didn't "need" HQ any more

kurt klingbeil's avatar

as I recall the phrase

"we hold it as self evident that all men (sic) are created equal"

is immediately followed by the enumeration of all the ways in

which all men (and women) are decidedly unequal and disequal

More fraudulent sophistry and propaganda

A simple way to clearly make a break from the Old World Tyranny

would have been to not just import and enact the whole pile

of Brrrritisch legalese gibberish and lawforms without any effort to

implement and enact any of the high-minded "stuff"

Grant women equality from the get-go would have been a giant middle-finger to the limeys, eh ?

NOPE!! refused to do it. They were after all United Empire Loyalists at "heart"

kurt klingbeil's avatar

I notice that the UI does not lend itself to "long" posts... it positions the active entry live below the bottom edge of the screen - hence nudging commenters to multiple short posts

The Founding Fathers were of the Rentier Class whose primary objective was to be at the bleeding edge of the Imperial Colonial resource extraction exploitation racket to profit the Crown and the Financiers in London

kurt klingbeil's avatar

it is a grave error to attribute the (ulterior) motives of those who are motivated

and driven to grasp the Brass Ring of public power to "human nature"

The sweeps of his-story are not driven by "human nature" at all but by the

proclivities habituations preferences and psychosociopathies of the tiny elites

who fraudulently maneuver and manipulate their way into positions of power

in order to abuse that power to leverage their personal and ideological psychopathies

over millions of people.

The founders did not read his-story to be better founders or governors, but to engage

in their narcissistic egotistical dick-wagging

If their "reading of his-story" led them to:

Fraudulently portray "We the People" as pertaining to or even representing the unwashed hordes...

when in fact that term referred to the wealthy white male property-owning slave-owning members of the rentier class who participated in the whole Imperial Colonial project ...

Not as is claimed to "heroically cross the waters to the Promised Land and even more heroically

hew a civilization from the wilderness in order to provide a Land of Liberty and Prosperity for people who could flee the old world tyrannies

It quickly becomes evident that their reading and education was in the art of sophistry and fabrication