Excuse my poor history knowledge, but the Europeans sailed here to find new lands, settled, and then after generations, they were overthrown by their descendants. The British empire still ruled around the world for centuries yet, the U.S. arguably is in a better state of economics, military, and such.
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“The life of an (American) Indian is a continual holiday, compared to the poor of Europe.”
“There is not, in that state, any of those spectacles of human misery which poverty and want present to our eyes in all the towns and streets in Europe.”
Thomas Paine – Agrarian Justice – 1797
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