4th of July

I was listening to a program on NPR radio the other day regarding why the Declaration of Independence was written. It seems that King George III (the Mad English King) tried to prevent new immigrants from coming to the U.S. as a way of controlling and subjugating people in America because a new nation needed immigrants to grow and to survive and to prosper. Machinery of most kinds didn't exist yet that we know today so a human being had to perform the tasks for literally everything. Without immigrants most people's lifestyles couldn't progress to something better and better and others likely couldn't survive at all.

So, the Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution were redressing Real Grievances against King George III in his taking away their rights here in the New World.

Likely without a mad king the U.S. might have never come about. This is likely true too.

So, the U.S. came from a "perfect Storm" of eventualities and survival necessities in all respects.

So, when we expect other nations to have a history like ours it is very unlikely today. Ours is a very unique case in the annals of human history and it might be important to realize just how unique the case of the U.S. was and is.

There is another nation that reminds me in some ways of what happened to the U.S. only with less deaths and that is Gandhi in India in the 1940s. Civil disobedience (Peaceful Civil Disobedience) was successful only because English people respected this after their own history.

For example, this wouldn't have worked in place like China where individual rights are not respected because of how many people there are. This likely would be true in a place with a history like Russia as well.

Individual rights and individual liberties are not possible in all cultures the way they presently are and with their individual cultural histories.

For example, I agree with Rumsfeld that is was not possible to have a real democracy work in Iraq after it's history with Saddam Hussein. And if you look there now, the Sunni Officer core from Iraq under Saddam Hussein (some of them are leading ISIS against all Shiite Muslims and everyone who isn't a Sunni Muslim.


So, I think we should be very grateful for a country like the U.S. but also try to understand that our history is not the history of all other nations on earth, and that all nations cannot be exactly like the U.S. because their cultures and histories will tend to prevent that from happening.

If people are more realistic there likely will be a whole lot less deaths trying to create things that are not practical in the first place.

Happy 4th of July!