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What Would Our Founding Fathers Think of America On Its 243rd Birthday?
Townhall.com ^ | July 4, 2019 | Bill Wenger

Posted on 07/04/2019 4:57:55 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

I think they would be AMAZED it has lasted this long, we had turbulent times like this during the Vietnam War and we bounced back, the thing that scares me now is these radicals from the Vietnam era are now college professors feeding the kids propaganda, the fact that ALL young people now feel the NEED to attend college they get to ALL young people today!! It did not used to be this way, MANY did not attend college and made an OK living!!! I am hoping that as these younger folks start raising families their views will change but I am not hopeful!!!


41 posted on 07/04/2019 6:38:04 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: gcparent

Yes, they surely would weep.


42 posted on 07/04/2019 6:39:06 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Kaslin; gaijin; gcparent; FenwickBabbitt; foreverfree; Gene Eric; beethovenfan; MacNaughton; ...
Also, not much has changed in the world since their time, as Jefferson wrote to (his once fiercest rival) Adams in 1821:

"It seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eating one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake. Whichever destroys the other leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

This pugnacious humor of mankind seems to be the law of his nature, one of the obstacles to too great multiplication provided in the mechanism of the Universe. The cocks of the henyard kill one another up. Boars, bulls, rams do the same. And the horse, in his wild state, kills all the young males, until worn down with age and war, some vigorous youth kills him, and takes to himself the Haram of females.

I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter: and it is some consolation that the desolation by these Maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office. And let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail. God bless you, and give you health, strength, good spirits , and as much of life as you think worth having..."

43 posted on 07/04/2019 6:40:09 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: gaijin

I learned those names from a Scooby Doo episode.


44 posted on 07/04/2019 6:41:04 PM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: Kaslin

MUST-READ BUMP


45 posted on 07/04/2019 6:49:31 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait.)
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To: bigbob

“Also: “Where ARE all the men, anyhow? All we see are a bunch of pussies!””

The fruits of feminism. They males have been emasculated from their earliest days in elementary school, brainwashed in high school, and totally indoctrinated by time they finish college.

Feminazi’s run the schools and decide on the curriculum.

The rest of the men who have escaped the emasculation, well, they have either sold out, been bought out, or are down an out. (a quote from the great Gerald Celente).


46 posted on 07/04/2019 6:50:42 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: gaijin

The story of Major Andre and Peggy Shippen (Mrs Benedict Arnold) is fascinating.

Here is a scene from the series Turn: Washington’s Spies that shows the hanging of Major John Andre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_t8k-ByzG8

The entire series was excellent. Wish there would have been more seasons.


47 posted on 07/04/2019 6:57:30 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Kaslin

We would be organizing like NOW if they showed up.

That’s after they fainted from the shock of the huge size of government, and of course all the attractive women in summer outfits with their shoulders exposed.


48 posted on 07/04/2019 6:57:37 PM PDT by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: Kaslin

They would be thinking...

“How does this AR15 thing work. Could be useful.”

LOL


49 posted on 07/04/2019 6:59:06 PM PDT by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: Kaslin

They’d say: What is Internet?


50 posted on 07/04/2019 7:05:47 PM PDT by Karoo
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To: gaijin

Benedict Arnold was not hanged.


51 posted on 07/04/2019 7:49:14 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: gaijin

I don’t think so. Arnold died in 1801.


52 posted on 07/04/2019 8:04:22 PM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Kaslin

They would be horrified and disgusted at the state of social morals or lack thereof.
They would be stunned and amazed by modern marvels.
They would fret over the evolution of the government they created.


53 posted on 07/04/2019 8:08:49 PM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Adder
Ben Franklin would be jazzed by the Internet and would have his website up within a month.

He'd also be jazzed by the invention of Viagra.

54 posted on 07/04/2019 8:11:41 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: Adder

They would desire to go back and re-word some parts of the Constitution so it couldn’t be twisted by the lefties.


55 posted on 07/04/2019 8:15:40 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Kaslin

proud and sad


56 posted on 07/04/2019 9:11:24 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: gaijin

They didn’t hang Arnold. He finished out the war as a British officer and went to England where he was also despised and lived out the rest of his life.

Maj. John Andre, the British chief spy, who turned Arnold was hanged.


57 posted on 07/04/2019 10:30:05 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: MacNaughton; CondoleezzaProtege

Thank you both for the citations.

Happy 4th.


58 posted on 07/04/2019 11:04:38 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Publius

LOL — likely given my understanding of his predilections.


59 posted on 07/04/2019 11:06:22 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Exactly my feeling. They’d wonder why we hadn’t strung up most of the House and Senate.


60 posted on 07/04/2019 11:13:46 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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