Crackhappy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAmericans, if you put yourself in the shoes of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and their ilk at the founding of this country, what questions do you think they would have for the leaders of today?message-squaremessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down19
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareAmericans, if you put yourself in the shoes of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and their ilk at the founding of this country, what questions do you think they would have for the leaders of today?Crackhappy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square60fedilink
minus-squarebreadsmasher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down5·1 month agotrue, the founders were even worse than I could put into words
minus-squareCrackhappy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·1 month agoAnd yet, there are people, right now, who idolize that.
minus-squarebreadsmasher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-21 month agoyeah, the republican party and every single one of their voters
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoI think it’s unproductive to treat the founding fathers as a monolith. What Franklin and Hamilton believed was markedly different than the likes of Patrick Henry or Jefferson
minus-squarebreadsmasher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoA large majority of the founders would disagree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves
true, the founders were even worse than I could put into words
And yet, there are people, right now, who idolize that.
yeah, the republican party and every single one of their voters
I think it’s unproductive to treat the founding fathers as a monolith. What Franklin and Hamilton believed was markedly different than the likes of Patrick Henry or Jefferson
A large majority of the founders would disagree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves