We Have Failed Our Founding Fathers

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Final Up to date on: 14th Could 2025, 02:52 am

Definitely, the “Founding Fathers,” probably the most notable names behind the American Revolution and the creation of the USA, had their issues. The commonest criticism is to level out that they owned slaves. Past apparent points stemming from the cultural and political period of the time, although, additionally they had attribute flaws, private issues, and failures in logic — identical to different people. Nevertheless, that mentioned, they had been additionally visionaries, very considerate folks, and intensely courageous males with loads of foresight.

The USA was presupposed to be completely different. It might be a nation of concepts and beliefs. It might not be a land of blind loyalty and pure tribalism. And it led the world in these methods for a few years, perhaps not completely, but it surely was a frontrunner in these respects.

We had been by no means a nation stuffed with intellectuals and goal thinkers, after all. Now we have at all times been a nation of people, and any massive group of people goes to have a combination of true intellectuals and primitive chest-thumpers. Nevertheless, we let educated, striving, extremely completed leaders form and run our society for a very long time, for a lot of, many a long time. We determined that our presidents and political leaders ought to be higher than us, ought to be honorable and of the very best character, ought to be properly educated and even good. They need to come to the desk with one of the best concepts, and be capable of persuade others of their benefit.

Once more, we’d be a nation of concepts and a nation of legal guidelines, not a conventional, conservative nation of blind loyalty and blatantly subjective tribalism. We’d be led by science. We’d be led by progressive exploration and societal evolution, not held again by corrupt cronyism. And it went properly, for a few years.

Now, our nation is being pushed off a cliff. Now we have a chest-thumping president who’s proud to disregard and assault science; who guidelines his social gathering with such disdain for info and dialogue that if he mentioned the sky was orange, each different Republican policymaker must agree or could be shunned and pushed out of the social gathering. “Facts? I’ll make up ones that suit me.” It’s now not about massive concepts and advancing society in a quick altering world. It’s now not about dialogue, dialogue, and debate. It’s about wanting all the things to be unrealistically easy. It’s about reactionary politics and solely interested by the rapid future, not the long run. Heck, it’s typically not even in regards to the current, however about desirous to go to a while up to now.

Relatively than attempting to steer the world within the applied sciences of the long run, our nation management is intent on attacking the roots, stems, and leaves of these new industries whereas attempting to revive previous, soiled, counterproductive industries of the nineteenth century.

Relatively than being intellectually-led political leaders on the forefront of human society, we’re regressing massively as we shun the world and return to previous, failed ideologies. And neglect about being a nation of legal guidelines. The regulation of the land, more and more, is like that of a kingdom — “I have the power, so the law is whatever I say it is.”

We’re returning to the undemocratic rule of a tyrant, and our Founding Fathers could be ashamed of us and ashamed that we’re throwing away what they created.