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Noble principles… Like kicking Native Americans off of their land?
Or slavery? Or women and other minorities as second class citizens? Or every other form of inequality, tyranny, or whatever else was present at the end of the 18th century in North America?
No, actually. I wouldn’t call those a noble principals at all. But those are not the principles upon which those country was founded. They simply existed when this country was founded. There’s a difference, and I openly admit that, when this country was founded, those principles definitely seemed very mixed and muddled. And even very difficult to believe from those very men who espoused them. But it wasn’t up to them to live up to those noble beliefs, it was to their descendants— Us. And while we’ve done a pretty shitty job of it, no doubt, we’re better than they were. and that’s not nothing. Progress isn’t made in loops and bounds. It’s made in steps. The important part is that the steps are made forward, not backward.
What I’m referring, however, to is the noble principles spoken of in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution. The principles that the founding fathers aspired to, not necessarily those which they practiced themselves at the time. Even those men knew that we should all try to be better than we are. That our future generations will, hopefully, be better people than us. that our future society will be better than the one we currently live in, and that it is our duty to make that future possible.
I’m able to appreciate the good things about this country while recognizing the incredibly shitty things about our past and present. that should be pretty obvious after I spoke about being proud of those Americans who fight back against tyranny and oppression.
But I’m also able to recognize that progress is made in steps, not leaps. And the most important thing is that those steps be made forward, not backwards.
Actually, one of the key motivators for the War of Independence was the fact that Britain had decided to stop expanding the colonies westward. The colonists wanted to do more genocide but the British wouldn't let them, therefore war.
*citation needed