https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/01/a_revolution_in_the_minds_of_the_people.html
A Revolution in the Minds of the People
American Thinker, by J.B. Shurk
Posted By: Hazymac, 1/14/2023 8:24:36 PM
"What do We mean by the Revolution? The War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen Years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington." Those are the words of John Adams from a letter written to Thomas Jefferson in 1815, nearly forty years after the colonies declared their independence. Having had more than enough time to grapple with the world-shifting events the two revolutionaries helped set in motion and looking back from the