This year I plan to
light off fireworks and take part in a family cook out with my family. That is
about the extent of it. I just don’t find a whole lot to celebrate on the 4th
of July anymore. But I do like to remind people that there are a few good
things about the US revolution, as well as some not-so-good things. So here a
slight revamp of an earlier piece:
The Republicans (anti-aristocrats at that time) included
both Thomas Paine and
Thomas Jefferson. They differed from Hamilton and his Federalists who wanted to
create some kind of aristocracy. In his
later writings, Paine condemned the Federalists for trying to reverse the US
revolution and what it stood for.
Paine went to France to take part in the French Revolution, for which he wrote “The Rights of Man.” He fell out of favor of France’s first non-aristocratic leader, Maximilien Robespierre.Paine remained in France until 1802, when he returned to America on an invitation from Thomas Jefferson, who had been elected president.
He condemned Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état, overthrowing the Directory, calling him "the completest charlatan that ever existed."
Now fast forward almost 230 years and there is only a
skeleton of the original revolution. The now, not-so-young country, United States
of America has, condemned the Sandinista revolution against a dictator, supported
Saudi Arabia, one of the most complete feudal societies on earth, and the US is
now attempting to be the next Roman-like empire, controlling all of the
Middle-East.
Today our country has a skeleton left of what was really never overly democracy. We have president, barely elected by people who have instituted torture and concentration camps.
Today our country has a skeleton left of what was really never overly democracy. We have president, barely elected by people who have instituted torture and concentration camps.
It’s time for the next move—from capitalism to Socialism.
- សតិវ អតុ
- សតិវ អតុ
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