Believe what you want but there is a small line in the Declaration which contradicts you:
“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation”
Maybe you could expand on your version of reality so that we can see where the Founders and historians like Lowell went wrong.
Considering the guy who wrote the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, threw his lot towards the Jacobins and Robespierre, who actually DID much of the description and heck, even went as far as to help draft the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which if anything pretty much expanded on the crap that he railed against when it was King George who did that, not to mention was content with literally no military in America at all until the Barbary Pirates forced him to change his mind, I’d argue that’s where we went wrong.
Besides, even the Founding Fathers hired mercenaries. As another person pointed out, we hired a few Hessians who sided AGAINST Great Britain.