Glorious Counter Revolution (Part Two)

Getting back to that idea of bringing the US back under the umbrella of British rule after their, frankly disastrous (for the rest of the world) 250 year experiment in independence, I think that we need to do more to expose their foundation myth as the pack of lies it really is.  As we've already established, that whole business about throwing off the shackles of a tyrannical king was all utter bollocks - George III, like every British monarch since William and Mary was a constitutional monarch with very limited powers.  It was really about the fact these revolting colonists didn't want to pay tax - most specifically the taxes which would pay for the UK's defence of them against the expansionist French, (we were, after all, in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars at the time).  But even then, it wasn't quite that simple, as it wasn't everyone who would have been paying the lion's share of those taxes, the main burden would have fallen on the wealthy. Like their 'Founding Fathers'.  These guys were the eighteenth century equivalent to today's billionaires and, like those contemporary guys, just don't see why they should pay tax.  Any tax.  So, again, just like today, these rich creeps decided to manipulate the populace into acting against their own interests.  Rather than trying to buy the system to elect their own right-wing millionaire clown, they instead cooked up a revolution by mobilising the masses against British rule.  Which, of course, involved lots of misinformation about the British.  Like the King being a tyrannical absolute monarch.

One of the supposed key events in working up this revolutionary fever was the so called 'Boston Massacre', when British soldiers allegedly opened fire on protesters in Boston, resulting in casualties.  It was the basis for much revolutionary propaganda.  But, bearing in the mind the parallels we've been drawing between 'Founding Fathers' and today's billionaires and their MAGA mobs, how do we know that these really were British soldiers?  I mean, the MAGA crazies like to claim that those January sixth whackos weren't really extreme right-wing Trump thugs fired up by Trump himself, but actually Antifa agitators in disguise, their actions designed to discredit Trump and his supporters and backers.  This is a narrative spun not just by the usual online crazies, but by wealthy Trump supporters, too.  So, is it inconceivable that those wealthy 'Founding Fathers' didn't organise some revolutionary cronies to dress up as British soldiers and shoot colonists in order to ferment dissent and slander the British?  Far fetched?  No more than that Antifa-disguised-as-MAGA January Sixth bollocks - and large numbers of Americans seemed happy to swallow that, so why shouldn't we use our version to further erode their foundation myths?

Because, you know, it's important to disabuse Americans of their self-aggrandising creation myths, from which they derive their extraordinary hubris that makes them think that they are somehow the God's 'chosen people', the 'Land of the Free' and the 'Greatest Nation on Earth'.  While Trump's reign might have started to beat some humility into some of them as a result of the US' subsequent lack of popularity in the rest of the world, it's important to remember that Trump isn't really that much of an aberration.  The US has always been a hypocritical bully that likes to preach its supposed democratic values at the rest of the world whilst simultaneously taking opportunistic advantage of the misfortunes and weakness of other nations in order to extend its wealth and power.  It's just that under Trump, the bullying and hypocrisy is undisguised.  But with their perfidy out in the open, it means that we no longer have to listen to their tiresome lectures about their supposed moral superiority, their claims to be a bastion of free speech or how we all 'owe' them for World War Two. (ignoring the fact they couldn't be bothered to turn up until some of us had already been holding off the fascists for nearly three years).  It's time we started reminding them that, in reality, their whole state was founded on lies, the creation of a bunch of super-rich scumbags who gaslit their population into a 'revolution', which swapped rule by an elected parliament (albeit in London), for rule by the aforementioned super-rich under the cloak of local 'democracy'.  An exaggeration?  Well, maybe a bit, but ultimately I'm so tired of being lectured by Americans about the UK's 'awful' imperialist past and all the bad shit done in our names back then.  But at least we acknowledge the evils of our past and accept that our prosperity was based upon the exploitation of weaker nations.  So, I think it's about time the Yanks started critically evaluating their history and accepting that their prosperity is equally based upon the bullying and exploitation of weaker nations and that they also have been responsible for a lot of nasty shit.  They aren't the greatest nation on earth by a long chalk, just another country founded on the lies of the rich.