Crackhappy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months 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-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up170
arrow-up170message-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 · 10 months agomessage-square43linkfedilink
minus-squarebreadsmasher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·10 months agotrue, the founders were even worse than I could put into words
minus-squareCrackhappy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoAnd yet, there are people, right now, who idolize that.
minus-squarebreadsmasher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-210 months agoyeah, the republican party and every single one of their voters
minus-squareNOT_RICK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months 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-up1·10 months 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