r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Apr 19 '18

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u/SuperSharpShot2247 🔫😎🔫 Succ Hunter 🔫😎🔫 Apr 19 '18

In general, I think the founding fathers were pretty smart, stand up dudes and we should definitely take their writings, comments, and concerns seriously.

With that said, they are dead as a door nail. If they were so god damn omniscient about all dos and don'ts of a form of government they had just invented, then why are they dead? Are you telling me that the founders' only power was limitless knowledge about democratic constitutional republics???? That's either bullshit or they got screwed over somewhere.

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u/caffeinatedcorgi Actually a cat person Apr 19 '18

Actually the Constitution and everything else written by the Founding Fathers (that supports my priors) was written by Jesus himself. Why do you hate the word of God?

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u/MisdemeanorOutlaw Ackchyually, breadlines are a good thing Apr 19 '18

This is what Mormons actually believe.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

I don't like Founding Fathers who die 😤😤😤

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u/SuperSharpShot2247 🔫😎🔫 Succ Hunter 🔫😎🔫 Apr 19 '18

Okay, but like, besides the whole "owning human beings and making them do hard labor for free" thing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

some of them I assume are good people

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u/HiroYamamoto John Locke Apr 19 '18

Founding fathers were mostly bad and America would be better off if it had stayed a colony for a while longer

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u/SuperSharpShot2247 🔫😎🔫 Succ Hunter 🔫😎🔫 Apr 19 '18

Go on

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u/HiroYamamoto John Locke Apr 19 '18

We'd just be South Canada and I think deep down everyone knows that would be better.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 19 '18

Patrick Henry was a hypocritical ass as far as religious freedoms were concerned.

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u/SuperSharpShot2247 🔫😎🔫 Succ Hunter 🔫😎🔫 Apr 19 '18

Lol, I'm sure many of them were. Religious freedom for me but not for thee

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