We are now living in a country our founding fathers fought to escape
We are now living in a country our founding fathers fought to escape
Negative.
This country was founded by the colonies' Uber rich, because they didn't want to pay taxes. Mission accomplished.
38Seriously only a handful of the founding fathers were based, or even liberal.
The most powerful founding fathers were obscenely wealthy slave owners who used their power in government to keep the wealthy on top, reduce taxes, and even personally stop attempts to end slavery.
5The avg American pays ~40% of their earned income to taxes either through income tax or all the other taxes that are payed day to day
-12The rich dont because for decades conservatives successfully convinced half the population that if we feed the rich some more oats, itll trickle down to the rest of us. Well guess what? The only thing that trickles down from an overfed horse is piss and horseshit.
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What moldy brainlet saw this and thought it relates to them?
9You have no fucking clue what a 250 year old aristocrat would think of modern US. This is some millennial boomer esq shit right here.
9I feel like Ben Franklin would be pretty down with things.
4Gotta agree. This country is a rich landowner's wet-dream.
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Some of us are, but most of us aren't. DC citizens have been doing it for so long they put it on their license plates.
8I live in NYC. I'm nowhere near England, as far as I can tell. I would love to visit England one day, though. Much love to any Londoners or English people reading this.
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A sepia-tone picture of 3 of the founding fathers of America: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the former two of which are seated and the third is standing around a small circular table covered in paperwork, quills and ink.
Over the image is the text:
"We are now living in a country
our founding fathers fought to escape"
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5Only if you live in DC or Puerto Rico (or other US territories)
Not really sure what uniting cause beyond "No taxation without representation" you think the Founding Fathers held in common.
2Terrible take. This isn't a monarchy.
1Yet.
3You think that's why we left?
0One of the reasons, yeah. Enlightenment thinkers were straight horny for the classical and merchant republics.
Now if you look at those republics from a modern lens you go "Oh, that's where the damage came from" but compared to divine right monarchies mid-colonization the Founding Fathers were woke af.
That all said, all slave owners in history were objectively evil. There is not a single one that didn't know it too.
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Didn't the puritans leave cause they thought Britain was too "woke?"
1fuck the founding fathers
-1No, fuck the people that take the founding fathers as infallible - when it suits their argument. The FF did what they did, and at the time it was groundbreaking, but they didn't count on populist stupidity taking what they wrote and amplifying the worst parts of it ad nauseam.
14I think they call that necrophilia and is generally frowned upon
9Them powdered wigs get me excited in my britches
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You must be british
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we're living in the country Lincoln destroyed once
-10Bold move, being pro-slavery where other people can hear you. Let's see if it works out for you.
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