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[โ€“] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

And violent overthrow is not a "founding block of American Democracy". Right after he won the Revolutionary War, George Washington used the Army to put down an American revolution against taxes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

This dude sounds loud and incorrect.

[โ€“] nac82@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I didn't call to violently overthrow a government, and the irony in the time frame of Washington's life you decided was important to this conversation.

It is convenient that you only wanted to talk about Washington after the Revolutionary War.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

From the Declaration of Independence itself, the founding principles of the Independence of the USA.