Reply #11: Well now... [View All]

[kenfrequed]

I signed it. I really had no choice.

A lot of the revolutionaries were rowdy and democracy ain't pretty. I don't think Washington really was one of them in spirit. He seemed more like a pompous incredible priss. Still he prevented us from collapsing into an American Monarchy by stepping down after one term. So in that way I applaud his measured idealism.

Now the Boston crowd was great! So were Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin for that matter.

Connecting the past to now though- during the revolution we did have a whole mess of pamphleteers and papers floating about with small presses putting their ideas all over the place. Bar this or limit it and the exchange of ideas and culture needed for the American revolution would still be wanting and we would likely still be enjoying tea and crumpets.

The internet is sometimes like this. But religious nannies, high horsed pundits, and upper media television snob-scum have been trying to pooh pooh the party for years now. That is when they weren't trying to carve bits of it up to sell in real estate on wallstreet or hype its sexy words to hawk absurd books on how two dimensional they believe the world is.

I agree with the sentiment of your counter to Jeff's post, even if the original posters massive blocks of blistering bright blue bold text blasted my eyes out.