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It's been going on since the founding fathers signed the eclaration eclaration of independence. They were all landowners and some even had slaves. The Constitution was written not for equality or the redistribution of wealth but for the rich, landowners to keep it and keep everyone else away from it.
It's become more obvious now as wealth has grown so incremently with the top 3% having more than some countries and are now at the point of untouchable, able to control so much of what's happening should be no surprise.
Europe did it when first colonialized the New World, claiming Manifest Destiny taking land, wiping out civilizations of people all under the name of god.
It's generational with the belief to not trust the government. They're trying to take it from you.
While one side tells you they're trying to take it from you, the other side is telling you, they're trying to take it from you.
The problem is, they are.
Also important to note that it was aristocrats that started and perpetrated the war to begin with. They weren't just opportunistically jumping in to get their piece, but were the cause of the conflict to begin with. They didn't want to be beholden to the crown, when they could just make their own country that they could design from the ground up to be exploitable.
The war was unpopular, attrition was high, and Washington was a blowhard. He killed more of his own soldiers than the British did. He was a drunkard and mediocre commander and only ended up winning because the French did most of the work for them.