I'm sorry, but I just CAN'T think of anything to say that doesn't involve violence of some sort. Like maybe locking the doors and setting fire to the building. I know that this isn't how I'm supposed to be reacting, but I really can't get over it. It's a historical precedence, after all. The English used to do it all the time.

Sorry.

These guys are always good.

As I'm still recovering from major surgery and virtually homebound I decided to write.

Somebody has been watching too much of that silly, stupid movie 'The Patriot'" which is an absolute crock from one end to the other, not in the least mentioning slavery nor that the worst atrocities in the war were those the rebels committed against people who were simply suspected of having sympathies for the British sovereign and people who were simply tax collectors and other minor British government functionaries. Tarring and feathering of those suspected of having sympathy for the British sovereign was just as brutal as any necklacing and this was a war of brother against brother and father against son.

Within 17 years of the victory at Yorktown the betrayal of the Yank revolution set in under John Adams and his Federalists if not sooner. The new power elites weren't really any improvement over the British sovereign and his court, but just had weird Yank accents and called the Indians "savages."

True Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic Republicans did try to bring a bit of the old idealism back, but they didn't succeed as much as would be necessary to actually establish a true republic. Property barriers to voting was the rule in the USA of the time. Race and color barriers to voting were virtually universal.

The Yank revolution, contrary to the hot air coming through US History text books was much more brutal than the French, Russian, and all other revolutions by a country mile. But people in the USA like to believe in US exceptionalism. In truth they're partly right-- exceptionally hypocritical. It was probably the most botched revolution in history, accomplishing just about nothing, but lots of loss of blood and life for not a whole lot.

The resulting constitution was a very conservative document institutionalizing slavery and so much else that is so despotic rather than democratic. Only the Bill of Rights was even slightly liberal.

Jefferson meant well, but those who got the power didn't give a damn.

The separation of powers weird system hasn't worked. A parliamentary system would be much better.

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