Werent they puritans? People werent always alcoholics. Alcohol is encouraged by those in charge, it may enrage you but then it sucks the life out if you. If anything 1776 happened because they were sober and could think clearly
Yeah, they were Puritans, meaning Scotch Presbyterians. They drank like fish -- I know, I am one. The pastor would be at the tavern all night Saturday, if for no other reason than to call bullshit on the people who were drinking it up Saturday night but then "too sick" to go to church on Sunday morning. (You actually got fined for not going to church unless you had an excuse.) You are not supposed to be a drunkard, which means that your drinking is a problem -- you drink and blaspheme, you drink to stupor when you should be working, you drink up the whole family budget, etc.
The prude slander is out of line too. Puritans fuck. In fact, if you aren't fucking, that's grounds for your spouse to drag you in front of the pastor for a talking to. We just don't do fornication and adultery. Part of your obligation as a husband is to satisfy your wife's carnal needs, to keep her from being tempted to adultery (and vice-versa.) If you are tempted by fornication, get married. That's what it's there for. (And the issuance of legitimate heirs.)
They threatened to tax their tea which would have helped them with their hang overs.
Tea is perfect for a hangover.
And hot and sour soup
The Puritans were in the 1620's, that would be about a century and a half earlier. It was the era when the Tories and the Sons of Liberty were making their arguments. The American Elites of that time period were sort of the opposite to the Puritans in that they were mostly Deists and very much into Reason.
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