Hey Snake, I am glad to see you still kicking around and posting. We may fall on the opposite side of the aisle on many issues, but if you read the literature of the Revolutionary period, so did just about all of those guys, and you are a true patriot. I won't bore you with that famous quote of Clemens. ..Just glad to see you back.
Never forget Shay's Rebellion. I went to undergraduate college in Boston and majored in American History and did my "mini" thesis on it. One of the epicenters of part of it was at Northampton, in Western Mass., and I live a mile from there now and there is still a plaque up about it in town. It took place in the 1780's, but just as well could (or should) have been taking place now.