Thanksgiving is the day America warmly sentimentalizes the pilgrims.
Americans usually confuse the pilgrims with the Puritans, who were
even more extremist, but also had money.
The Puritans who ran the Massachusetts Bay Colony later absorbed
the pilgrims, but never absorbed the native people.
When it came to persecution, the Puritans were quick learners.
People like to claim that they fled Europe for the
New World to escape persecution.
But they didn't hate persecution.
No, they just hated not being the ones getting to
do it.
In this way, the Puritans were this nation's first Christian
nationalists.
I like to think of them as Project sixteen thirty
one, which is why the Puritans were our true founding
fathers instead of those powdered wigs, silk, stockin' wearin' men
who wrote the Constitution.