Welcome to my channel. You may initially think, as you watch my videos or read my comments, that I'm just another anti-American malcontent. However, the truth is I have great respect for our founding ideals. Unfortunately, these have been severely corrupted, or their true spirit has been ignored, almost from the start.

While men like Washington and Jefferson may have been egotistical in life, they intended to create a nation that was better for future generations. Our nation was founded largely by debtors trying to escape the tyranny of Kings, Royal Families and "Great Men." We originally idolized and memorialized great civic virtues, rather than "Great Men" or Royal Families. On our coinage and public statues, figures like Liberty, Justice and Victory were depicted rather than "great" presidents. Early statues of presidents were generally of a life-like size, rather than the grandiose statues found in the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials.




After the Gilded Age (around 1909), this all changed to a great degree. America began deifying certain men and their families in haste. Men like Jefferson envisioned a nation of citizens who thought for themselves, rather than blindly following "Great Men." He never wanted anything to tyrannize over the mind of man; he wanted future American citizens to worship his ideals, not his person. There are truly no "Great Men", but only citizens who do great things. Mindless worship of or devotion to "state gods" make our citizens susceptible to demagogues and false "saviors."