r/USHistory:

u/JC_Everyman

What? Was there some polling data I was unaware of? In an age of kingdoms, you think monolithically, every north American colonist gave up this core tenet of existence? Nonsense.
u/JC_Everyman

People always forget that big government was a response to big business.
u/JC_Everyman

They would look at Amazon like they would look at random mass shootings: “WTF???”
u/JC_Everyman

Wonder what they’d think of Amazon. . .
u/JC_Everyman

IDK. Bots. Or I am just drunk and wrong. Probably bots.
u/JC_Everyman

History is written by the winners. History is Public Relations. The future will be everything George Orwell predicted but with the plot twist of AI and Deepfake video. Imagine a historian scholar 100 years from now trying to decipher what happened after mass communication was taken over by corporate interest.
u/JC_Everyman

I can’t imagine Standard Oil lobbied FOR the Sherman antitrust act.
u/JC_Everyman

“We can’t have a dystopian future if we don’t have a dystopian present!” -Presidential advisor, probably
u/JC_Everyman

Dominic Sandbrook, obviously
u/JC_Everyman

Asked another way, which American president stepped outside of themselves to take on the awesome responsibility to lead and govern? Answer: still Washington