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Originally Posted by nikimcbee
I'd say politians for the last ~60 have been trying to take the leash off and once it's off, there's no putting it back on.
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I'd say you're off by about 167 years. Politicians have been trying to subvert the Constitution from day one, including the ones who helped write it.
In my opinion many of the founders would indeed object to the treatment their ideal has recieved, but they also objected to that very treatment back in their day. Why do you think Madison and Jefferson ended up despising Hamilton, and vice versa? One of the great things about George Washington was his true love for his country an desire to do anything to make it work. Sadly, of all of them he seems to have been the only one.
I too dislike what is being done today. I'm just pointing out that it's nothing new. I think most of the Founders would recognize exactly what is happening, and would find it uncomfortably familiar.