He just went on about how DC statehood went against the founding fathers.
How could we go against the ideals of the slaveowners!
Soft spot for John Quincy Adams, who defended the enslaved Africans who hijacked the Amistad. IMO JQA and Lincoln are the least problematic of the bunch
went against the founding fathers
The idea that you should make political decisions by divining the will of long dead prophets is a deeply theocratic one.
No that's not fair most religious texts are more clear and flexible than the founding fathers
The cult of the founding fathers has always astonished me. Here you have these SLAVE OWNERS (enough said) who had nothing but disdain for the average American, wanted to genocide the Native population, and repeatedly resisted efforts to build an actual free society (even based on the ideals they claimed to hold), but we're told we should look back at these people for moral/ideological guidance?
A) dead people don't get a political say B) the founding fathers just wanted to create an organisation that could deal with the debt of the war as the states couldn't each pay a full share
I don't even know if it's as interesting as him being red brown. That circle keeps trying to brand itself as something more subversive and new but if you take a lot of the anti idpol left stuff at face value it's just trying to recreate the democrats as they were post Regan, but pre Bush. As much as we made fun of Biden's people for trying to set the clock back to 5 minutes before everything goes to shit, that's essentially what this is.
