@GhostOnTheHalfShell

We've known this for a long time, tho.

This is one of my earlier toots from a now-defunct Mastodon account:

@CosmickTrigger

We live in a time that has 1789 vibes to it or revolutionary colonial America.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

The American Revolution was a mistake. We replaced one set of rulers with even worse ones and then called it "freedom."

Our Constitution is the worst blueprint for a government ever put to paper: written SPECIFICALLY to keep rich white racist and sexist males in power to the exclusion of everyone else.

250 years later, it is still doing that

@CosmickTrigger

I don’t think the sentiment to escape the predatory extraction of King Charles and his East India company was a mistake at all.

But mixed up in it like all revolutions, I need to stress this, are the wealthy who resent hierarchy because they aren’t the ones in control. This is always a dynamic in any revolution.

The constitution is a shit show. Washington noted that the checks and balances were useless against political parties. They knew it wasn’t good enough.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

According to historian Thaddeus Russell, everything we know about American history is wrong.

It's much like the Zinn book, only Thaddeus proposes a different kind of working class hero who shaped America: renegades. Hookers, gangsters, musicians, drag queens, drunkards.

He argues that workers created for themselves a three-day weekend simply by being lazy and reveres them for it.

And that people were having more FUN before John Adams and his ilk took over