
“[T]his is the main reason why the American colonists rebelled against the British: because they wanted to be able to continue to take over the land and the resources of native people.”
“We always talk about it as taxes and tea and everything else; but, my argument would be that… actually… [stealing] indigenous land [was] what triggered the American Revolution.”
The United States is “actually a nation that’s dedicated in many ways to the project of western expansion. And George Washington, besides being the General for the Continental Army, was also a very significant land speculator in western lands. So, the leadership down to lower-level people [were] all very interested in western expansion.”
Meaning: Really, the U.S. is ruled by imperialist, white-supremacist, land-grabbing, deceiver-revisionist-hypocritical, gentrifier, genocider, predatorial-capitalist, patriarchal oligarchs (hello again: b**th**e Stephen Kevin Bannon, born November 27, 1953; and all your fellow alt-right b**th**es), who are presently being led and represented by #BigHeadTinyBrainInTheDarkHouse.
And shocks: Their house is truly, deeply, and immensely a dark house.
And the greatest and most grievous shock of all: Not all, but too many white Evangelical pastors and theologians “are blind guides… the blind lead[ing] the blind” (Matthew 15:14)!
To be continued…