It's fair to say that the Pilgrims left England mainly to find religious freedom, but that wasn't the primary motive that propelled them to North America.An excellent example of the cleverness and clear thinking of those who tap their keyboards for the MSM.
The author might have been better served - and more credible - by simply pointing out that the Pilgrims and the Puritans weren't the same thing.
My Mother had ancestors on the Mayflower.
By now many also have ancestors on the Mayflower.
Just think if the Pilgrims had to see how we live today.
The Black Friday brawls, the abandonment of their principles on faith, marriage and social structure.
The actor playing Bradford mentioned it in the movie "Mayflower Adventure" that I saw just the other day. So, who are you going to believe - Bradford, or Hollywood?
In 1978, we took the RV and the kids up to Plymouth to see my wife’s sister who lived there at the time. We visited Plymouth Plantation. During the tour, I was struck by the presence of fortified guard shacks in the town square and asked the guide if they were a last line of defense for the citizens there if trouble with the natives spilled into the compound. He told us that they were for the control of the FOOD RIOTS which broke out those first few winters — BEFORE they wisely abandoned their clearly failed experiment with collectivism — before Marx was even born.
Seems each generation or so we must relearn the hard lessons of history.
OBOWMA will teach us the next round of such lessons. I suspect they will be BITTER ones indeed.
A sidebar to that visit was that upon crossing into The Peoples’ republic (small “r”) of Taxachussetts, we were greeted by a huge sign on the Interstate displaying a message to the effect that bringing a firearm into the state was a crime punishable by 6 days upon the rack the drawing and quartering then scattering of your remains about Harvard Yard, there to be eaten by intellectually deficient budding libtards.
As our trip took us over 1,000 miles with my wife and 3 small kiddies aboard, our expensive RV was equipped with a .357 magnum handgun for defense.
The sign gave me two choices: I could throw the $300 weapon into the roadside ditch where it could be found by another or a highway worker or I could press on and hope to avoid being consumed by the libtards.
We pressed on as I contemplated the irony that the Founders were certainly doing 3600 RPM in their graves that one of the former colonies that played such a key role in their victory during the unpleasantness with King George now prohibited possession of the very tools with which they achieved same.
Have a wonderful day
This has been going on for for decades - one case in point - 30 years ago - a US History book with one small, derogatory chapter on George Washington -
and 5 1/2 pages of text and photos on = Marilyn Monroe.
And the people slept..
Religious freedom was what it was about.
Of course, some of them were inconsistent in the practice when it came to the religious freedom of others, but that doesn’t negate the fact that they came here for freedom.