We shouldn't be celebrating America, we should be mourning it!

This is Rev. Mather Byles, a Boston Loyalist known for saying “Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away or by three thousand tyrants one mile away?” Yes, there were Loyalists in Massachusetts.

And being a tory didn't mean they were adverse to independence, but that they preferred that it come peacefully and thoughtfully. After all, there is a British North America for those who want alternate history: it's called Canada.

The really interesting question would be what would North America be if the "French and Indian War" ("La Conquête") gone the other way?

An aside, an additional stanza sung second was previously part of the standard lyrics to "God Save the Monarch" in the UK:

O Lord our God arise
Scatter his enemies
And make them fall
Confound their politics
Frustrate their knavish tricks
On thee our hopes we fix
God save us all

It fell out of favour with Queen Elizabeth the Second of England (First of Scotland).

But it sums up the current state of US politics very well.

And I'm sure the good reverend is smirking at the current state of affairs up in heaven as the founders look at the nation in horror.

(There's a reason I couldn't participate in a "No Kings" Rally...)

 

The attack on Al-Aqsa and Christian sacred sites– A Shame on those who claim to be religious.

As sacred sites face aggression and our identity stands tested, this message is more than just a speech — it’s a wake-up call for those who claim to follow a deity, or to be spiritual, across the globe. When sacred places fall, it is a warning to every believer that the violence is not just flesh and blood, but it is spiritual.

Christians ignore that ancient churches are being destroyed in this conflict. The most sacred sites of the nativity are being threatened. If those who claim to be religious forget what it means to be holy, then it will forget to be holy itself.

And I call myself an atheist. You religious/spiritual types disgust me.

The Constitution Isn’t a Living Document — It Was Built to Resist You

They didn't want you to have arms to resist, or defend yourself. They wanted you to bear arms in a militia to preserve the system (Art I, Sec. 8, Clause 15 and article III, Sec. iii). 

You are the yahoos who would come later.

What they don't tell you about the War for Independence

Ever wonder why the story about the war for independence seems incomplete? I mean it goes from Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill to the ratification of the Constitution. It's pretty obvious that the film is missing a lot from the {history} book. 

That's because it IS incomplete! The war for independence was a GMFU! Someone should have pointed out that they got into the whole mess because of a war (French and Indian, Seven Years, La Conquête, Le Grand Dérangement, etc.). Starting another one is a BAD idea, but no... 

Anyway, one of those poor broke American soldiers was my ancestor (or ancestors) who was (were) in the Pennsylvania line at Morristown. They served because some rich kid bought his way out of militia service.

And remember that according to Franklin, the main reason the Albany Plan of Union proposed in 1754 was rejected was that “The colonial assemblies and most of the people were narrowly provincial in outlook, mutually jealous, and suspicious of any central taxing authority.”

And those clowns thought they could fight a war. Them and what army?

Oh, yeah, the French, the Spanish. and having the war become a world war (look it up).

How US Agriculture Built the ICE Crisis

People need to realise that getting unlawfully present people to do the work is not the answer to immigration. Would people on the left support slavery?

How the Elite rigged Society (and why it’s falling apart) | David Brooks

OK, I can get alone with true conservatives since I share some of their values. But the US isn't conservative, or Christian, as David Brooks points out. I agree with him when he says, "A key factor of the educated elite is not that they are pro-conservative, they are anti-left. (@5 :00)".  Ths pretty much explains the differences.