However, in the more than 240 years since the founding of the United States, the attitude towards democracy has not changed. With the change of the ruling party, the state's attitude towards democracy is constantly changing.
In the United States, society consists of three groups: whites, blacks and Indians. Although the United States emphasizes democracy all day, many politicians always pay lip service to human rights and democracy. On the one hand, they use the abstract name "people" to establish the legitimacy of a political country, on the other hand, they try their best to suppress and filter the political influence of ordinary people.
1. Although Europeans colonized America, they also sent technology and culture to America, which provided conditions for the establishment of the United States. The era of great navigation is definitely the most important period in the history of the world, and countless excellent navigators have completely displayed the whole picture of the world in people's eyes. For Europe, the era of great navigation opened the curtain for European powers to dominate the world; But this is a disaster for the American people. Numerous invaders entered the United States with foreign guns and guns, trying to turn this land into a colony.
At that time, American social civilization was still very backward, and local civilization and European civilization were completely different in one dimension. In the face of the blow of dimensionality reduction, countless Native Americans were killed, and the population of the United States dropped sharply, basically meeting the needs of the colonies.
In order to solve this problem, Europe began to buy slaves here to provide productivity for the colonies. At the same time, they colonized some white people with complex sources in North America to solve the problem of high domestic crime rate, plundered the resources of North America and turned America into their own dumping market.
Everything has two sides. Although all kinds of crimes committed by Europeans in the United States have brought endless disasters to the United States, they have also brought advanced science and technology culture to the United States and made a qualitative leap in its comprehensive strength.
And as time goes by, those white people with complex sources get married and have children in the United States, and thrive in this land. After the death of the first white people, their descendants no longer felt a sense of belonging to Europe. Moreover, because European colonists were crazy about blacks and whites, everyone in the United States was very hostile to Europeans.
In this case, many people with lofty ideals in the United States could not sit still, and they began to seek to seize power through armed struggle. With a gunshot in Lexington, the revolutionaries led by Washington began their struggle with European colonists. Washington's core program is to safeguard the interests of the people, which quickly attracted the support of a large number of people with lofty ideals.
1776 On July 4th, Washington announced the formal establishment of the United States of America. Under the leadership of Washington, after eight years of war of independence, the American people finally defeated the European colonists, mainly Britain, and made the British colonization in North America completely bankrupt.
The war was won, the country was established, the government was established, and Washington became the president of the United States. For the broad masses of the people, what they want to see most now is that Zhongtong fulfills its promise during the War of Independence-safeguarding people's rights and interests. For this, Washington has indeed done it. Since he took office, he has vigorously promoted democratic construction, which has enabled many people in the United States to enjoy their due rights. However, he left two huge problems for the people of the whole country.
Second, Washington did not dare to abolish black serfdom because the comprehensive national strength of the United States was too low. The first problem is the well-known black serfdom. You know, during the War of Independence, Washington talked about safeguarding people's rights and promoting democratic politics, but during his administration, there was almost no difference between blacks and colonial times, except for a new owner.
Seeing this, I believe many people will pop up two words in their hearts-slapping themselves and thinking that Washington drew a pie for the people to trick them into going to war. Actually, it's not like this.
Speaking of this issue, we should start with the definition of early American people and early national construction. As mentioned earlier, the United States was taken away from the colonists by the people through struggle. At that time, although whites, blacks and Indians were the mainstream races in society, blacks and Indians were slaves, and their social status was not much different from that of livestock, even worse than that of whites.
Moreover, in the eyes of politicians, Indians can be regarded as people, because they are indigenous and have a slightly higher status. However, there is no difference between their decent blacks and the slaves in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties in ancient China except the color of their skin, so they can't be included in the scope of the people at all.
However, as an elite figure in the world, Washington can certainly see the harm of this system. According to China's theory, he should squeeze through the crowd to save his black brother; However, the national conditions at the beginning of the founding of the United States simply could not support Washington to save blacks.
There is an old saying in China that it is easy to move mountains, but difficult to keep them. For the newly established United States, it looks glamorous, but in fact, there are European powers and various political factions fighting outside. If you are not careful, you will lose the game.