[DTogo]

The Founding Fathers fought for true freedom that has "eventually" been (or allowed to be) corrupted to what we have now - hardly the "freedom" they fought for and left us.

"“A Republic, if you can keep it.” (which we have not kept well)

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

[allmendream]

Your disgust at the state of our modern Republic does nothing to ameliorate your disgusting comment that the Founders were merely fighting to be ruled by a “home grown” autocrat rather than an English one.

It betrays an utter ignorance to the causes of the Revolution, and the current of thought present in America at that time.

No, the American Revolutionary soldier truly was fighting for freedom from tyranny in a way that Joan of Arc wouldn't have had a concept of.