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Isn't the US "founded" on the principle of diversity of thought? It's contradictory no?

• t-3 4y ago
  Not really, no. The founding colonies were mostly corporations - the startups of the gunpowder era. The religious outcasts came because they were ostracized and chased out for being assholes, but were only a small number overall. The actual revolution was mostly about taxes, and a lot of distrust in autocratic rule from on high.