Americans, 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 · 3 months ago

Americans, 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?

breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

true, the founders were even worse than I could put into words

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

And yet, there are people, right now, who idolize that.

breadsmasher@lemmy.world · edit-2 3 months ago

yeah, the republican party and every single one of their voters

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

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

breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

A large majority of the founders would disagree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_who_owned_slaves