The smartest people in a backwoods country did what was thought impossible a couple of times. They defeated the British, and then after the Disaster that was the Articles of Confederation, established a written constitution that quite literally took their ideas from the Reformation, Natural Rights, and individual liberty and tempered it to withstand the man's worker instincts. They created a four page document that not only created the legal framework to establish a nation but also provided the necessary cohesion to keep rival cultures, and opposing religions working cooperatively toward a better future.
The model of European governance is that God shined his grace upon a king who then decided what rights the people got. With The Constitution was enshrined the model of governance that God gave all the rights to man, and it was man that decided what limited rights were given to the State.
They did all of this recognizing their own imperfections, and providing a way for their own creation, The Constitution, to be amended. That document, amended 27 times, still stands as the governing document for our country.
What the founding fathers did was quite astounding.
It helps that they were all in one place at one time. Imagine if King Richard the lion hearted, Henry III, Stephen Hawking, Elizabeth I, Lord Nelson, Alan Turing, Benjamin Disraeli, Churchill, Thatcher, William Wallace, Newton, and Richard Branson all got together and said let us make a new country and they all hammered out their ideas and despite their own egos managed to create a structure wherein they all agreed. And it worked! And 231 years later it was still working.
:liberty-weeping:
I love how half the comments are saying "no american actually worships the founding fathers, you dumb foreigner", and the other half is absolutely fellating them, saying how they were unique and brilliant.
I love the casual "there were some problems" without directly acknowledging chattel slavery. Very cool!
When it is brought up, some fucking smoothbrain in the comment goes off on how the 3/5ths compromise was good, actually, and "Without the 3/5 compromise, emancipation may never have happened at all."
:bruh:
That's.. such a bizarre idea. Like the rest of the world would continue on as always but in 2021 America would have both nukes and chattel slavery?
Their logic is truly astonishing: "You know when you think about it - without chattel slavery there wouldn't have been the 3/5 compromise, and without the 3/5 compromise emancipation may never have happened!"
The redditor mind is deeply poisoned and their brains have been rendered perfectly smooth.
Imagine if King Richard the lion hearted, Henry III, Stephen Hawking, Elizabeth I, Lord Nelson, Alan Turing, Benjamin Disraeli, Churchill, Thatcher, William Wallace, Newton, and Richard Branson all got together and said let us make a new country
Well that's tonight's nightmare sorted
Edit: I would like to apologise, Isaac Newton is one of the most accomplished volcels in recent history, he should not be grouped in with these sickos
alan turing: ah fuck i just wanted to kill nazis lets get out of here stephen
well, kill nazis and suck dick by way of math. and he's... well there's one left but he's not really flexible enough to... you get the idea. and also its really hard to suck a dick with math.
Hahaha. I just saw this. Americans are so fucking weird.
I know the answer is propaganda, but the unabashed love for a bunch of drunk, slave owning dorks will never not be strange to me.
Edit: This exchange was just :chefs-kiss:
Comment- "Most modern nations outside of East Asia and Europe were invented."
Reply dork- "This is mostly because of colonialism."
good reply- "Just like the US"
I'm having this debate for no goddamn reason at all deep in the comments somewhere. You don't get to say that shit worked consistently when there was a massive fucking civil war in the middle of it.
America's fairly unique in that it's a nation that was invented and designed- and the members of that design committee were the Founding Farthers. I don't think it's particularly weird for Americans to hold them in high regard.
LMAO. Yeah, America is the only country that had a revolution and then invented a new system of government. No other country ever did that. There was certainly no time period called the Age of Revolutions or anything. The Founding Fathers invented liberalism, federalism, and nationalism from scratch with no influence from Europe.
There definitely wasn't constant references to the English civil war or the Corsican revolution or anything for the entire period.
We built a giant Penis monument to Washington.
and carved their faces into mountains.
Somehow the founders escape the "mass murderer" label despite (a) one big reason for breaking away from Britain was their desire to push west and kill more natives and (b) they set up a nation that allowed chattel slavery.
The model of European governance is that God shined his grace upon a king who then decided what rights the people got. With The Constitution was enshrined the model of governance that God gave all the rights to man, and it was man that decided what limited rights were given to the State.
This one is pretty fucking funny considering specifically how anticommunism has been incorporated into America's civic religion
Oh and also how the Framers fucking hated and were suspicious of the hoi polloi and "mob rule"
"Defeated" the British, motherfuckers would still BE British if they'd lost. And goes on to list literally NOTHING BUT BRITISH PEOPLE coming together to make a new country and it's America.
🤔 :anglo-burn:
Not to mention they got support from like 3 of the 5 biggest world powers at the time.
The comments on that post is some of the most insufferable garbage I've ever read.
:amerikkka:
The only opposing religions are based Islam and everything else, and soon insha'Allah all will submit before the guiding light of Islam and Allah.
They had the interest of the United States and its future at heart a hell of a lot more than the political trash that's been elected to office in our lifetime.
Ah yes, political geniuses with totally pure intentions and totally not just a bunch of rich assholes enshrining why they are in power and should stay in power.
What's frustrating to me is shit like this:
It's actually more impressive when you consider they were just guys and not dieties. They overthrew an empire and replaced it with a stable government that has lasted for more than 200 years.
That they were able to accomplish this as the regular, flawed humans they were. That's the cool part, for me.
And yet they will never apply that logic to the Soviet Union or any other socialist experiment because commies evil.
I mean, it's still doing its job of keeping rich white anglos in power
