The middle class actually isn't falling behind, they're getting ahead. But everyone thinks they're falling behind because they're constantly interacting with super-rich people online, and seeing rich people's lifestyles on Instagram.
Just 250 years ago, America didn’t exist. Let that sink in.
Within three generations of people, this country has accomplished the impossible
> first country to send human to the moon
> invented the internet and core infrastructure behind it (ARPANET, TCP/IP)
> invented airplanes
> invented the telephone
> invented electricity distribution
> invented reusable rockets
> invented the polio vaccine and mRNA technology
> invented the GPS
> built the deepest capital markets in history
> won 34% of all nobel prize awards, more than the next two countries combined
> annually spend a third of the world’s entire R&D budget
> led the Genome project that sequenced human DNA
> hold just 4% of the population but contribute 25% to the world’s GDP
> hold the oldest written national constitution that still remains in force
The birth of America was not just a win for Americans. It was a win for the entire world.
God bless America. Greatest country on the planet.
Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!
The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.
LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.
The vote that would create the United States was deadlocked, and the man who could break the tie was eighty miles away, dying of cancer, on the wrong side of a thunderstorm.
His name was Caesar Rodney. On the first of July 1776, while Congress argued itself toward independence in Philadelphia, he was stuck back in Delaware. He was tamping down Loyalist trouble, in constant pain from the cancer eating at his face and fighting for breath due to his asthma.
Then the letter came. Delaware's two delegates in Congress were split. One for independence, one against. Without a tiebreaker, the colonies would not stand united. And a divided front was exactly what the Crown was counting on.
He did not hesitate. He climbed onto his horse near midnight and rode straight into the storm. Lightning split the sky. The roads turned to sludge. A journey that normally took two days but he made it in eighteen hours. He stopped only to change horses, soaked with every mile.
He reached Independence Hall on the morning of July 2 just as the vote was called, still in his boots and spurs. Caked in mud. Thomas McKean never forgot the sight of him standing in the doorway.
Rodney walked in and cast his vote for independence. It broke Delaware's tie, and with that, not a single colony stood against the break from Britain.
On this day, 250 years ago, a dying man rode all night through a storm so America could be born.
America 250 🇺🇸