No one Talks about The Road NOT Taken

I spent a good deal of time yesterday talking with a bright young relative about what she's being brainwashed into believing at that bastion of Liberal thought,  called the University of Colorado.  She is into the concept of "fairness" as the only measure of outcome that matters.   For example, she believes the evil white man stole America from the noble Indian (Native American , excuse me), and that they should have stayed in England.   At least she hasn't said we should give it back.

She believes she is being taught "critical thinking," but both points of view are not represented equally, if at all.  As the beneficiaries of the white man's creation of the best country on earth, Liberals can complain that the ends do not justify the means (stealing the land and killing the peaceful Indians) as if the means and the end were of equal weight.   On the one hand you have a loosely connected group of nomads, living in about  the 7th century style, who had not even discovered the wheel yet; on the other you have the creation, by predominately white Englishmen, of a new kind of government, based on English history and English law, and extending freedom to the common man .  This common heritage of the Founding Fathers formed the basis of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the self-evident truth that "All Men are Created equal".

This was RADICAL for its time.  It challenged the power structure.  It challenged the existence of kings and challenged the authority of nobles.  One could argue this would have eventually happened had we stayed in England.  Perhaps, in time.  But without the American Revolution in 1776 we likely would not have had the French Revolution in 1989.  Of course our revolution was much more civilized than theirs.

History would be changed, and not for the better.  America itself would not exist if we had not claimed and colonized this land.  Did the Indians really own this land?    They were almost exclusively nomadic tribes who wandered about the different geographic regions and frequently warred with other tribes over land.  We did buy it when we could, but in most cases how do you establish ownership?  The last tribe that camped there wins?  How do we know they're not just squatters?  What if two tribes claim the same campsite - how is the ownership established?

Very simply, the two tribes would fight over it and the stronger tribe would win the territory for as long as it could hold it.  Eventually they would lose to a stronger tribe.  So what is so different about them losing to the stronger tribe of white settlers, other than race?