Posted on 11/17/2020 9:06:21 AM PST by pabianice
What Franklin said long ago. He was wrong.
How was he wrong? You can’t just leave it at that.
I doubt Ben could have forseen the decline in our culture.
He was on the money. Nothing wrong about that statement. He recognized that keeping it was the hard part.
> How was he wrong? You can’t just leave it at that. <
Franklin said “A Republic, madam...”. But maybe he was talking to a guy.
He was absolutely correct. They did not foresee the abandonment of God.
I always thought he was talking to a woman who had just given birth and asked what she had. Meaning what sex was her newborn child.
Or Communist University Professors.
Franklin, like most educated, or self-educated, men of his time, would have been familiar with classical civilization, and the moral decline of Rome and Athens. He would also have been familiar with English history, and the sharp changes wrought by Henry VIII's split from the Roman Catholic Church, the radical changes of the Puritans that led to the English Civil War, the debauchery that followed the Stuart restoration, and the reemergence of Calvinism following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The last event occurred during his father's lifetime and thus as recent as World War II is to the Baby Boomers.
Franklin was aware of the effects of radical changes to the body politic due to religious shifts.
I thought the OP meant, it turns out, we can’t keep it.
OR: Privileged and unprincipled media.
OR: Big Labor thugs
OR: Vote buying, with ‘free stuff’ for illegal minorities
The National Center for Constitutional Studies web site includes several essays from a Bicentennial of the Constitution Year 1987 Volume Entitled, Our Ageless Constitution, all of which explain in the Framers own words, the ideas underlying the U. S. Constitution.
That Volume was published, specifically in honor of the Bicentennial of our amazing Constitution, for the purpose of adding context and background for citizens who wished to explore and better understand the Founders' ideas--as those were the ideas which explained the Constitution's specific limitations on powers "We, the People" would allow government to exercise.
We should remind ourselves it is those ideas which led the Framers to write and ratify that Constitution for a strictly-limited form of self-government for a free people.
I suspect he knew how it would end. Maybe we lasted longer than he anticipated.
#3 isn’t just illegals, listen to today’s Glenn Beck show.
He was asked by a group of citizens if we had a republic or a monarchy.
Franklin said “A Republic, madam...”. But maybe he was talking to a guy.
You're assigning a pronoun to Franxlin and hence assuming their gender.
He was not wrong.
Right-’free stuff’ is irresistible’ to some low education and anti establishment types.
It’s an element in our society that is growing and constantly demanding MORE and MORE.
I always say, “If you are throwing T-bone steaks at a 700 lb. Bengal tiger - do you honestly think he’ll go away?”
anti establishment types.
We are the anti establishment types now.
Ha - I wanted to be nice. I meant people from 3 and 4 generations who have never worked.
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