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Humans are a strange mix of wanting freedom and self determination and wanting to be taken care of.

Very true. They want freedom, but once they acheive it, they think they can have their cake and eat it to. Hopefully, having to reacheive freedom after losing it to laziness ove time will lead to a permanent level of freedom.

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The US was in a very fortunate position during our colonial period.

You worked and worked very hard or else you starved.

Government was thousands of miles away in England and really didn't have a lot of impact.

As a result self sufficient citizens got used to limited government and self rule.

It was good enough to build a nation.

It has taken 60 years to break a system that endured 300+ years.