and he was not in fact a genius if you 'set aside' his OWNING PEOPLE as people in these discussions want you to do. he wasn't a Big Enlightenment Guy because he enforced religious freedom, the US literally had to have it or the fuckers would've immediately started murdering each other. he wanted Small Federal Government, which from a post ww2 perspective sounds okay, but Jeff wanted a federal gov that basically didn't exist. it's hard to even compliment the anti-army sentiment when that was de facto a preference for state-based militaries instead of a federally organized one.
thomas jefferson worship is so fucking :centrist:
and he was not in fact a genius if you 'set aside' his OWNING PEOPLE as people in these discussions want you to do. he wasn't a Big Enlightenment Guy because he enforced religious freedom, the US literally had to have it or the fuckers would've immediately started murdering each other. he wanted Small Federal Government, which from a post ww2 perspective sounds okay, but Jeff wanted a federal gov that basically didn't exist. it's hard to even compliment the anti-army sentiment when that was de facto a preference for state-based militaries instead of a federally organized one.
He was the Elon Musk / Jeff Bezos of his era. Just a phenomenally wealthy politician who commanded legions of blinkered wanna-bes.