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I’ve always thought that if the Revolution happened today, you’d have big media corporations like The NY Times writing hit pieces on George Washington everyday.
by ceilingcorner 6y ago
I’ve always thought that if the Revolution happened today, you’d have big media corporations like The NY Times writing hit pieces on George Washington everyday.
- Macha 6y agoYou say this like it wasn't the case that media outlets wrote anti-revolution articles then: https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/03/james-rivington-kings-printer-patriot-spy/ https://allthingsliberty.com/2014/03/james-rivington-kings-p...
- dogma1138 6y agoThe American Revolution used the social media of the time, what do you think the federalist papers were all about? A lot of the established press was against it and they did constantly published “hit pieces”. History is written by the victors if the American Revolution didn’t succeed the US would likely eventually gained independence but it would’ve been a commonwealth nation. The Revolution isn’t the reason why you have freedom today, Canada is free so is the UK. The world would look quite different than it is today but not as different as you might think.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoCanada and the UK developed in the same post-American Revolution world as America itself did. The idea that the Commonwealth would have automatically become free is historical revisionism.
- dogma1138 6y agoI didn’t said it automatically would be, but I would put my money on the west developing in a similar fashion as far as form of governments goes than not.
- ceilingcorner 6y agoConsidering that the West almost ended up being ruled by the Nazis, I’m not sure how this is remotely likely without the US existing as an independent powerhouse.