Recant on this:
Evidently you consider these people deities, and completely forget they were mortal men. They were great men, but largely, they had the same faults as the rest of us; the same passions and the same weaknesses. Altruism is a crock of sh*t; sorry.
Admit this is misleading and quite stupid, and totally unfounded.
Then we can talk about "learning". We learned alot in 1865, how Yankees/socialist/statists can destroy individual states rights. Ya wanna start there? I'll admit it, you all did a "good job" on that, the states are powerless jokes now.
By the way, as much as I seem to detest your cynical yankee attitude you seem a worthy opponent. To bad I have to work for a living, I could spend more time freeping.
Absolutely not. To insist that to a man, each and every Founding Father was inspired to do what they did because of altruism alone is to deify them; to deny that they were human beings, and subject to the same passions, strengths, and weaknesses of all men. It's flat-out childish to insist that altruism alone motivated the Founding Fathers. It's really a naive view of history, my friend; only Christ was infallible. The Founding Fathers were not Christ; in fact, they'd probably be offended to be compared to Christ, especially the Puritans among them (like the Adamses).
Then we can talk about "learning". We learned alot in 1865, how Yankees/socialist/statists can destroy individual states rights. Ya wanna start there? I'll admit it, you all did a "good job" on that, the states are powerless jokes now.
I have no desire to refight the Civil War with you, Johnny Reb. My family didn't come to this country until the 20th century.
By the way, as much as I seem to detest your cynical yankee attitude you seem a worthy opponent. To bad I have to work for a living, I could spend more time freeping.
Some of us are capable of multitasking . . .