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Sadly, a Google News search for "Mayflower anniversary" reveals that there is near zero media interest in what is arguably the most seminal event in American history.
The Mayflower only started the New England colonies. Remember Jamestown was the first European settlement in the present day US and that's where the 13 British colonies started so one can argue that is more important than the Mayflower, though the Mayflower SHOULD be celebrated too.
Personally I hope not. Who cares, 400 years ago some people sailed here. We've got more important things to worry about -- like not letting the country burn down if Trump wins the election.
note how thanksgiving is being made invisible by the media, democrats, stores and left. We now go from Halloween to Christmas. Christmas is on the list of disappearing holidays though it will take a while to dump that entrenched holy day/ holiday.
the far left sees the Pilgrims landing as the source of evil. Of course if you followed their logic far enough back into history and then fast forward to today, their ultimate solution is obliteration of humanity. After all we are all trace back to some evil.
So go ahead and vote Harris/Biden and embrace the left wing hate and fear mongering so evident in the last four years. Intolerance is why the pilgrims fled their home country. Intolerance has finally caught up with the refugees from a country dominated by hate and fear mongering and prosecution.
Four hundred years ago, on November 11, 1620, a small group of zealous Puritans washed ashore near Cape Cod, Mass.
And they signed a document which is the foundation of American democracy.
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The Mayflower Compact, signed on November 11, 1620, broke ranks with English political theory and practice, in which unelected monarchs issued decrees and ruled by divine right.
The Mayflower Pilgrims, as they came to be called, were committed to “the advancement of the Christian faith” and designed and signed their compact “in the presence of God.” But no one seemed to have a theocracy in mind; rather, they sought to form “a civil body politic.” Importantly, their new political community would be framed by “just and equal laws” — laws that would apply without discrimination to all their members. Here, at the very beginning of the American story, one can discern the concepts of equal justice and government by consent of the governed.
Every school kid used to know this stuff, and some may have wondered what their country would do to celebrate the big 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims arrival in 2020. Few could have imagined that Americans, having grown to despise their own history, would pretty much ignore this day entirely.
Yes it sucks that some came to this country as passengers and others came as freight.
Crack a history book, my man. It'll do you good.
My great, great, etc, etc grandfather was on that ship--William Bradford. There were no passengers that came as freight. Except for the ones who died because of the extremely cramped conditions. And all were willing to die to make that voyage. Most of them were on the ship to escape tyranny and religious persecution from governments that were a lot like you leftists are today.
On the 11th November 1620, the Mayflower dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod.
The Jamestown Colony was settled in 1607.
In case you don't get it, that was 13 years before the Puritans dropped anchor.
And, in case you don't get it, it would be 2 more years before the Puritans got the balls to leave their ship, so the Jamestown Colony had been going for 15 years.
Nobody really gives a crap about a bunch of losers who wanted to ban birthdays, ban Christmas, ban New Years, in fact, ban all holidays and celebrations of any kind and repress everyone with their differently twisted belief system.
What bewilders me about the Anglo Saxon race and Anglo Saxon mindset of thinking and this idea of moral purity. The mayflower and the pilgrims were moralist and wanted to separate from the church of England due to its catholic past. This mindset of moral purity has never left Anglo Saxon thought process and remains the hallmark of Anglo Saxon thinking no matter one goes in the Anglo Saxon world. This moral purity seems to be a big problem in Anglo Saxon nations and can tear apart the Anglo nation state at the seems. With that said.
The thinking of the pilgrims and later the religion that developed out of the pilgrims known as puritanism is no different than those who follow Antiracism and blm. These people want to do away with America due to its racist past. It's just like how the pilgrims want to do away with England due to its catholic past. If I was BLM or an anti racist. I would thank the mayflower and the puritans for flowering America with the idea moral unforgivness and reckoning.
Being accused of being a racist now is no different than being accused as a witch 400 years ago in salem.
How the way the puritans think is no different than BLM and anti racist. This is the hallmark of Anglo Saxon thinking.
Well written but wrong.
The Pilgrims were Separatists an off shoot of early Putritans. They chose to separate not purify from within and they ended up as Congregationalists.
And there were never more than 300 of them, keeping to themselves on the south shore until they were finally overwhelmed by the Puritans of Boston. So hang your theories on the Puritans and leave the Pilgrims out of it.
And Thanksgiving is nothing more than a harvest festival, which have been celebrated for hundreds of years in Europe. Thanksgiving was a fasting week in April to honor God for their survival through the winter months.
As for the issue of cargo and the Mayflower read up on the story of the More children who were last minute additions to the passenger list. It will give EVERYONE a better sense of the brutality of the times.
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