US-SSR wrote:Vetalia wrote:
Who founded the country that is still the envy of the entire world.
Without the efforts of Washington and Jefferson to build the American republic and establish a constitution that makes personal freedom and rights of the citizens as paramount, the world would be a much darker place.
Washington, Jefferson and the rest of them didn't care a damn about rights of the citizens, they coopted the language of John Locke, Rousseau and others to create a system to maximize the interests of the capitalistic exploiters and enslavers they saw as the natural leaders of society. The basis of the prosperity and power of the USA throughout its history is taking land from natives and setting enslaved Africans to work on it. The "freedom" it fights for in foreign nations large and small is the freedom of its bankers and industrialists to continue to exploit the labor and resources of the rest of the world to enrich themselves.
As I say, about time their statues get pulled down.
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the songs of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Sure, whatever, all those millions of people throughout our history immigrated to America because they were hoodwinked by the evil capitalists and not because of the prospect of freedom and economic opportunity which they in fact enjoyed and used to build the greatest, most prosperous and most powerful nation in human history...based upon a system built by Washington and Jefferson, and for which thousands of non-whites fought and died to preserve throughout this country's history.
Do you have any comparable alternatives?
