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well, except that the John Hancocks of the world were in fact fabulously rich entrepreneurs. John Adams was a successful business litigator (as, for that matter, was Abraham Lincoln decades later). You can go through the roll call of Massachusetts Patriots and you'll see a lot of rich and bourgeois leading the pack. And the Virginia revolutionaries were wealthy plantation owners. I think you're overstating your case vastly, Will.
Chomsky has as much to do with this as he has to do with reality generally.
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