American History Lesson
Do you know what political party Thomas Jefferson and James Madison founded and belonged to? No fair Googling.
Answer provided after someone makes a guess.
Answer provided after someone makes a guess.
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Northwest · M
I asked the question to make the point that the labels we use now, and the venom with which we throw them and ugly derivations of them around as the election, have changed the meaning of the words that our Founders used.
Our "Founding Fathers", for the most part, were bigots, expansionists, racists, misogynists and even at time, genocidal.
There are no useful learnings from their political belonging 250 years ago, other than it's really great we're not living these 250 years ago principles.
PS: yes, for the most part, they were brilliant people.
bijouxbroussard · F
@Northwest Thank you. The Founders did own human beings, as I was taught, so I don’t think I’d have liked them, either.
I suspect the MAGAs would take us back to those days if they could arrange it, several have already tried to justify slavery as it originally existed here. 🙁
I suspect the MAGAs would take us back to those days if they could arrange it, several have already tried to justify slavery as it originally existed here. 🙁
