Originally Posted by
Gunny
How is it not? IIRC, this country was founded on a rebellion against our King. A war.
Truth is, everyone thinks our "founding fathers" were these high-minded idealists when they were mostly elitist businessmen who didn't want to pay their taxes. The US Civil war was fought for basically the same thing. Just a different government doing the same thing. We can't pay tax on our tea to King George, but by God, you WILL pay your whiskey and stamp tax to the founding fathers.
In both wars, it was the poor that fought them, and it was mostly a bunch of rednecks that wanted to just be left alone BUT ...
THEY were willing to fight for their freedom and their yards.