>>12050416So goes the story. But all you're actually saying is "George Washington did not want to be President."
What I'm saying is, "That's because he wanted to be king".
Most of American history is a lie btw. The people who wrote most of your founding myths in the early 19th century were students of Virgil and the Aeneid (the founding myth of Rome). The point to history is not to establish facts but to teach the moral lesson learned.
Columbus didn't discover america or prove the earth was round.
Gallileo was not persecuted as a heretic nor did he discover the heliocentric model of the solar system.
The protestant reformation was reactionary anti-enlightenment against a progressive Rome, not the other way around.
The Spanish inquisition was not particularly nasty by the standards of the time.
The west was not settled by fiercely independent cowboys taming the savage lands with their colt revolvers, it was settled because it was federal government policy to settle it.
The list goes on. And it's still practiced today, the term "Judeo-Christian" was invented in the 50s as a way to promote the idea that Jews are just a different sort of Christian. And the term "Abrahamic religion" didn't achieve common usage until the 21st century as a way to do the same thing for Muslims.
It's turtles all the way down. At the end of the day if you want power you have to convince men to give it to you, and men do not consent to kill and be killed for money alone. They need something to inspire them. The US constitution was that for the American revolutionaries and even that had a very small effect. In reality the American revolution was fought almost entirely by France and Spain as yet another war against Britain. And the only thing that caused Britain to accept terms was the Spanish threat to Gibraltar.
The war of 1812 does not appear in British History books. Big deal in the US but Napoleon's invasion of Russia that same year was far more important.
