There’s a reason why your ancestors came to America. Try to remember this on July 4.
Here are some excerpts from Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson.
When the English philanthropist Robert Owen tried to convince the Austrian government to adopt some social reforms in order to ameliorate the conditions of poor people, one of Metternich’s assistants, Friedrich von Gentz, replied, “We do not desire at all that the great masses shall become well off and independent … How could we otherwise rule over them?”
And …
Opposition to innovation was manifested in two ways. First, Francis I was opposed to the development of industry. Industry led to factories, and factories would concentrate poor workers in cities, particularly in the capital city of Vienna: Those workers might then become supporters for opponents of absolutism.
And …
Second, he opposed the construction of railways, one of the new technologies that came with the Industrial Revolution. When a plan to build a northern railway was put before Francis I, he replied. “No, no, i will have nothing to do with it, lest the revolution come into the country.”
And this from Russia …
stories of men and women torn from their families and their villages and sold, lost in gambling, or exchanged for a couple of hunting dogs, and transported to some remote part of Russia … of children taken from their parents and sold to cruel or dissolute masters of flogging “in the stables,” which occurred every day with unheard of cruelty; of a girl who found her only salvation in drowning herself, of an old man who had grown grey-haired in his master’s service and at last hanged himself under his master’s window; and of revolts of serfs, which were suppressed by Nicholas I’s generals by flogging to death each tenth or fifth man taken out of the ranks, and by laying waste the village …
Life was horrible in Europe. Your ancestors rebelled and came to America for a better way of life.
They established a republic, not an empire.
Don’t allow our neo-feudalist elites take away that precious gift that your ancestors bequeathed to you.
July 4th is not about obedience; it’s about rebellion.
Resist the American empire. It is the most American thing to do.
Sincerely,
Archer Crosley
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