Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:01 am
Europeans and American lefties are fond of mocking average Americans in the flyover states for thinking 235 years is a long time to be a country (Well.... 225ish not counting the time under the Articles of Confederation?).
But really, isn't 235 years as a government, with no fundamental changes to the way the government is structured, pretty close to being one of the oldest? Yeah, great, England has a couple thousand years of history. So what.... it was part of an empire, a monarchy, an empire, etc until they got what they have now, and what they have now isn't as old as America's current government.
And, this country didn't just appear 235 years ago. Before that it was a largely independent colony, before that a dependent colony, and before that a few thousand years of government under various people that had come from Asia over the Bearing Strait land bridge.
So it isn't like this land mass in the western hemisphere just magically appeared a couple centuries ago any more than Europe just magically appeared when the European Union was formed recently. It's great all y'all out there in Europe have thousands of years of conquering and killing each other under your belts, but that doesn't mean your nations are in any way "old." Most of you haven't had a consistent government for 200 years. Most of you can't even claim national borders haven't changed.
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Just a random thought.
But really, isn't 235 years as a government, with no fundamental changes to the way the government is structured, pretty close to being one of the oldest? Yeah, great, England has a couple thousand years of history. So what.... it was part of an empire, a monarchy, an empire, etc until they got what they have now, and what they have now isn't as old as America's current government.
And, this country didn't just appear 235 years ago. Before that it was a largely independent colony, before that a dependent colony, and before that a few thousand years of government under various people that had come from Asia over the Bearing Strait land bridge.
So it isn't like this land mass in the western hemisphere just magically appeared a couple centuries ago any more than Europe just magically appeared when the European Union was formed recently. It's great all y'all out there in Europe have thousands of years of conquering and killing each other under your belts, but that doesn't mean your nations are in any way "old." Most of you haven't had a consistent government for 200 years. Most of you can't even claim national borders haven't changed.
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Just a random thought.