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Make no mistake, my whole life has just been me watching america circle the drain. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think this is the right place to look.

At the bare minimum, back then the founders wrote a constitution designed AND INTENDED to be amended, if not rewritten every once in a while.

As of like 80 years ago people started to get it in their head that the USA was somehow the greatest nation to ever exist and could never be better. Maybe because of how it helped out in WWII? Maybe because of how the economy boomed following the war? Who knows. But Nationalism has certainly put the nails in the coffin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

They were slave owners, who fought a violent war against a democratic country. They could have asked for representation in parliament, but they decided to go to war. Why, because England, was about to clean up the colonies and eliminate slavery. With peace between England and France in the 1760s, England's attention was once again on domestic issues, and people in England were getting sick of slavery in the colonies. The rich slave owners, most educated in law, knew slavery was about to end when the ruling of Somerset v Stewart (1772) was handed down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

This guy "The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America"'s