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41603 Re: Is it Coincidence the Evil Woke Chose Holy Week to Charge Trump?
   De: "I am currently reading a book about America's founders." What... 		Fiz   6TH POPE   06 Apr 2023
 12:28 AM
41581 Re: Is it Coincidence the Evil Woke Chose Holy Week to Charge Trump?
   De: " Most of the Founders were well studied in both philosophy and hu... 		Fiz   6TH POPE   04 Apr 2023
 10:11 PM

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Re: Is it Coincidence the Evil Woke Chose Holy Week to Charge Trump?

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 04 Apr 23 9:09 PM
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fizzy:

Re: “Without that, only common decency, keeps government employees as bay.” I am currently reading a book about America's founders. More specifically, it is about the first four presidents.

Early on, the author makes the point that the Founders made three huge mistakes. He writes:

“Their classical knowledge ultimately steered the Founders wrong on three crucial issues:” “• Whether the new nation could subsist on ‘public virtue,’ relying on the self-restraint of those in power to act for the common good and not their personal interest” “• Their misunderstanding of partisanship, or ‘action,’ as they tended to call it, nearly wrecked the new Republic in the 1790s.” “• The acceptance of human bondage, which would prove disastrous to the nation they designed. ”

I don't agree with him that slavery "proved disastrous to the nation." But I do agree with his first point, that the Founders believed that the nation would thrive under virtuous public servitude - and what a boneheaded conclusion THAT was! They really should have known better. Most of the Founders were well studied in both philosophy and human history, and history is fraught with examples of government corruption and treachery.


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