The heartbreak George Washington suffered, when he lost New York and Philadelphia, and the horrible winter at Morrisville. The idiocy of General Gates, the hungry, shoeless, troops who were freezing and starving, and the black slaves who left the plantations on the promise of freedom if they would fight for the Brits. The defeats at Ft. Ticonderoga and Charleston, fighting the Indians who had been bribed to fight for the Brits. The winning of battles, which by all common sense should have been lost, and the final surrender of Cornwallis, after six long years of fighting. If it weren’t for the foolish British General Clinton, it might have been lost or gone on for more years. It was a superb show.
King George III was shown as being totally ignorant, haughty, stubborn, and not having the faintest idea of what he was doing to his young colony, which caused them to revolt. The show made me think of what Americans are going through with the federal bureaucracy, and have suffered from at an ever increasing rate, ever since FDR. I got out my copy of Tom Paine’s “Common Sense,” which did an incredible job of convincing unsure Americans of the total validity of the Revolution. It is said that Common Sense achieved a circulation of 100,000, which today would be the equivalent of a booklet (it had 47 pages) getting a circulation of 30 million, so well and widely read it was. Why can’t someone write a 47 page booklet today, and have it circulated to 30 million, on the criminal government that Obama and his Democrats have foisted upon all of us. Paine explained in his 47 pages, that it would be foolish to ever believe a king’s promises, and that freedom from kings, endless laws, tariffs, taxes, and debt, were to be greatly desired, since the colonies had no debts, no king, few taxes, and a legislature which was microscopic, and which should remain so.
I would like some writer to do a 47 page booklet on the Revolutionary like times we are now living in, thanks to endless, foolish wars, huge taxes on everything, and the obvious fact that our entire lives and businesses are intertwined with the D.C. politicians and President, and that we are unable to extricate ourselves from them without either a revolution, or a Tea Party control of both Houses and the ousting of Obama. It has currently gotten to the point for America, which the Colonists had arrived at 236 years ago, with Mother England. They were being taxed controlled, throttled, harassed, and legislated literally into slavery, and they wanted out. We do too!