Whatever the Democrats might tell you, America remains that shining city on the hill.
It's not much when you think about it. It's everything. Those who signed the Declaration of Independence were offering up their all in the fight for freedom from British tyranny. It was a noble, even mythic struggle. George Washington's rag-tag army, often moments away from annihilation, traversed its way up and down the colonies for nearly a decade before emerging victorious in the final battle at Yorktown.
They're wrong. These were men, not miracle workers. They could only do so much. The divide over slavery between the northern colonies and those in the south was a chasm too great to cross without ripping what might be a new nation almost certainly irreparably into two parts. So much then for independence.
None of them had it easy. The first settlers in North America who hewed colonies out of hard soil and forests didn't either. Nor did the people who fought for and won our independence. The history of America is a history of struggle, something the history books don't do a very good job of explaining anymore.
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