attackfish

We Americans in particular love to romanticize revolution; I can only assume that this is because we had one of the very, very few in history that turned out reasonably well. I don't think most Americans have any idea how easily ours could have turned out to be one in the long, sad series of wars of colonial liberation that cast off the shackles of foreign oppression (however heavy, or light, those shackles may in fact have been) only to inflict something far worse on ourselves. We came really close, several times in our early history as a nation; however messed up our current political situation may be, we dodged a lot of bullets.