Dylan Matthews at Vox.........Pajama Boy from Central Casting
Posted on 07/04/2016 2:27:05 PM PDT by dennisw
This Fourth of July holiday, as you celebrate America’s independence, perhaps you would care to try something new: Perhaps you would like to join with the MSM and, instead, denigrate America’s independence. As in, you could wish that it had never happened.
Yes, perhaps you would put down that hotdog and those red-and-blue streamers, stop watching the parades and the ball game, ignore all the fireworks, and instead, join with Dylan Matthews at Vox, who tells us that, in his opinion, the American independence of 1776 made the world worse off.
Yes, you read that right: The headline of Matthews’ piece is “3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake.”
To fully absorb that headline is to comprehend just how utterly the left end of the MSM disdains this country—but you already knew that.
Matthews makes three specific claims as to why the American Revolution was bad: First, Abolition would have come faster without independence; second, independence was bad for Native Americans; third, America would have a better system of government if we’d stuck with Britain.
Matthews makes no mention, of course, of any of America’s achievements, from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Brooklyn Bridge, from providing a prosperous and free haven to hundreds of millions, as well as ridding the the world of Hitler, from putting a man on the moon to feeding billions around the world.
And of course, Vox and Matthews have no interest in the spiritual kernel of American patriotism; so Lincoln’s famous peroration from his First Inaugural in 1861, for instance, means nothing to them:
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Obviously, Matthews doesn’t care about any of that. But that’s okay: If he’s a U.S. citizen, under our rules, he has the full privileges and immunities of citizenship—even if, as he said on June 16, 2016, he wants President Obama to unilaterally take away all gun rights from Americans. Under our Constitution, if you’re a bad citizen, you’re still a citizen; that’s the way we roll.
Still, let’s consider Matthews’ points of criticism, starting with the idea that abolition would have come faster without independence.
Matthews writes, correctly, that slavery was abolished in most of the British empire in 1834 (in India, not until 1843), which puts Britain a few decades ahead of America, which ended slavery in 1865.
So is it that simple? The British were faster, and thus, better? And so, if America had never become independent, would the slaves have been that much better off? Well, if we play out this alt.history, maybe not.
Stipulating, of course, that the slave trade in the Americas was mostly a British invention, (The Spanish, by contrast, did not have slavery, even if they still weren’t so nice.), we can observe this: With the coming of the industrial revolution in the 18th century, the British textile manufacturers in cities such as Manchester and Birmingham—cities like Manhattan or San Francisco today, in terms of wealth and influence—acquired a profound interest in slave-grown cotton. Cotton was, after all, the key input in their mass production.
So with the slaveocracy in the American South pumping out so much wealth, would London have wanted to mess with it? Perhaps, because by the 19th century, English anti-slavery sentiment was strong, and yet, if so, it would then have come into a conflict. Confronted with “Yankee” pressure from London, it’s easy to imagine, say, a Sir Robert E. Lee reaching the exact same conclusion that the real Robert E. Lee reached: Dixie must chart its own independent course—and secede.
Dylan Matthews at Vox.........Pajama Boy from Central Casting
Most Native American tribes fought for the British.
Obviously this dummy was “an accident”
Typical Europe-worshiping fairy.
Wow, he actually looks like the type of scumbag who would write such filth on the 4th.
May the stinking bastard be deprived of the freedoms he holds in such contempt.
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Looks gay to me.
Yikes.
That little faggot Dylan Matthews has it all backwards, America (REAL Americans) think the MSM is a mistake, a colossal mistake, like bedbugs in your furniture, the only real way to be sure you’re rid of them is to take the furniture outside and BURN it.
I may be mistaken but were not black slaves brought to Cuba, Brazil, and other countries under the Spanish flag?
Oh my, looks like someone who probably got his head ducked in one of the toilets of the boys room back in high school or afforded some other similar treatment, lol.
When I was young there was a book Man Without a country. This young man perhaps should enjoy such an experience.
Looks like a bed-wetter.
Ouch! At least now dweebs have someone THEY can laugh at.
America was great, did great things, and had a unique and special history.
But the present and future are a lot less clear. The full power of the government is deployed to support displacement and dispossession of the American people. The government, at several levels but particularly the Federal union we celebrate today is in some real sense an occupation government. Their goals are frequently opposed to the majority of the people. They are destroying the nation from the inside out.
They have burdened our people with a corrupt banking system that impoverishes us.
They continuously attempt to disarm us, in contradiction of our traditions and highest laws.
They work tirelessly to destroy the common decency of our people using their immense power to force homosexuality into every corner of our lives.
They aggressively import hostile foreign people, distribute them into our heartland, and threaten us if we object.
I could easily go on for pages, but won’t. I will simply say that I am not at all sure that the creation of the behemoth that sits upon us is cause for celebration.
I don’t think that poor boy’s Momma could love that face.
Perhaps freedom of the press, was the mistake. Giving whores a free pass.....
Mathews is a child with no experience in the world and a preference for hyperbole. While basking in the admiration of the left, he enjoys the world created by capitalism and the very freedom he so clearly hates. That white boy don’t understand nothin about haw the world works. His ability to spout this nonsense is true white privilege.
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