Why America may not see its 300th birthday

Opinion by Michael Steele

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FROM MSN: History will not soon forget the 1,500 disgruntled Americans who set out on a cold January morning with the goal of overthrowing our government. They believed the system was “rigged.” Months of semi-peaceful protests hadn’t given them what they wanted. So, led by former military members, they armed themselves and surrounded a federal building as a first step toward a coup. But the date was not January 6, 2021. It was January 25, 1787. That’s when a group of farmers and war veterans organized by Daniel Shays staged an attack on a U.S. armory as part of an effort to overthrow the government over high taxation. The still young American republic was without a central military and was, thus, too weak to quash Shays’ Rebellion. A hastily organized Massachusetts militia ultimately put it down. In the wake of the one-year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the lesson to remember isn’t that there was another divisive U.S. insurrection in our history. The lesson to take away is America’s different response. (MORE)

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