I remember a legal scholar being asked what the founding fathers would have thought of the current supreme court, and they sidestepped all of the politics and said they would’ve been flabbergasted by all of the Catholics.
“Why did you call that farm implement ‘Mr President’?”
Please read the Federalist and anti-Federalist papers. This meme is bullshit.
The US is gay as fuck, cause there was not a single founding mother.
Something something Betsy Ross
“What do you mean you can’t rape your slaves anymore?”
Ben Franklin: “Cool!”
John Adams: “Women, okay, but unlanded men!?!?!?”
Washington: “You guys are practicing sustainable farming now, right?”
Additionally:
Alternative Washington: “If the government is making so much money, why is anyone unlanded!?!?”
Hamilton: “Don’t you see that unlanded men voting is your ENTIRE problem?! They don’t have the time to be involved in politics!”
Jefferson: “You have LOST your CONNECTION with the LAND, only FARMERS are real people!”
Madison: “Awful lot of SLAVES walking around here like they own the place…”
John Jay: “You Mormons are strange fellows, but you steam a good Theodemocracy”
Hence, the need for amendments, which they provided for.
“Guys why have you barley added amendments and why was one of them for banning alcohol?”
And another is… Unbanning alcohol?
I feel like they’d understand that one
The founding fathers definitely thought gay people should be lynched
Washington’s top general was pretty openly gay. Ben Franklin helped him escape Europe, where he was wanted by a German principality for sodomy charges.
The oldest lie in America is “We, the people…”
It doesn’t matter if it was a lie then, if we choose to live by it now.
All such political documents are aspirational. In making such statements, we seek what can be, not what is. Not in cynicism of the past, but in desire to make the future better.
Those political documents weren’t aspirational, they were PR to get the public in line with a plan rich slave owners came up with to steal another country’s colony and keep the wealth for themselves.
This has never changed. The success of this country is still borne on the back of mass exploitation, theft, and lying to keep the public from overthrowing those responsible. They’ve also done what they can to make all Americans complicit in some way, to paralyze them with both internal and external shaming. It. Hasn’t. Changed.
You want to choose to live by those words today? Good. Unfortunately, you are not in charge and you never will be unless that entire class of people stops existing.
“We, the richwhitemen”, FIFY.
“No, not those rich white men. No, not them either. Or them.”
The founding scoundrels.
they should be somewhat ashamed, because they did not forsee giving rural areas too much voting power.
Not a historian, but I strongly suspect there have always been at least a few people who “got it”.
"The fuck you mean people don’t even duel anymore?
The MAGA guy would be okay with those restrictions to voting rights as well.
They’d get as far as pornhub and disappear
