Comment on US Democracy
Nurgus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You guys should have listened to Thomas Paine, the only founding father with a clue and a set of principles.
Topical.
Comment on US Democracy
Nurgus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You guys should have listened to Thomas Paine, the only founding father with a clue and a set of principles.
Topical.
Bonifratz@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Why, what did he say?
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s what I gather from his wiki and some chatgpt queries. Never heard of him before but honestly, I’m a big fan now.
Bonifratz@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Sounds nice enough, but not really like an outsider position among the Founding Fathers. OP seemed to be saying that Paine differed substantially from the others in some way, which I would be interested to learn about (not American either, I only have cursory knowledge of the Founding Fathers).
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Paine was far more radical than the rest of them, and wrote scathing critiques of them that caused him to become extremely unpopular before he died.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Didn’t all the founding fathers and every president since then say all of the above?
We need to praise people more by what they do, than what they say I reckon