I’m glad the founding fathers did not think that.
...the founding fathers...
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The Founding Fathers whose statues are being destroyed? The Founding Fathers whose names are being removed from the public square and whose writings are being deemed hate speech? The Founding Fathers whose ultimate memorial, the Constitution, is today a weightless piece of paper marked for cancellation at the earliest opportunity?
If the Founders had remained anonymous/pseudonymous, would the mob have this plethora of easy targets? Would they be forced to debate and confront facts and ideals instead of cancelling individuals?
The ideals that are the foundation of America as founded are straight in the crosshairs, exemplified by named historical individuals. Just because they lasted over 250 years before the Jacobins successfully came for them does not obviate the advice to not make yourself easily available to the tyrants, if at all possible.
If the Founders could have looked ahead with certainty instead of relying on informed intimations, would they have retained their initial secrecy? Many did write under pseudonyms and only worked behind the scenes until the ultimate battles were taking place. Many signed as the victors who stayed anonymous during the battles.
Our Founders fought one monarch and one nation state. They had assistance from around the Western world. We are fighting a battle against shadowy global cabals, with only a publicly known figureheads. We have few allies with any real world power and everyone, every thought, every action, no matter how trivial or distant in time, is today used to bludgeon individuals of diverse belief into compliance with tyrannically merciless foes intent on eradicating 90% of the humans alive today or subjugating them to the ever-changing dictates of the current & ever-changing establishment. All of this done with technology the Founders could not have imagined.
Op sec and membership in The Church of the Low Profile are highly advised to us all at this point in time. The oppressors are not simply after visible leaders. It is instructive that they, themselves, are decentralized, diffuse and often masked. They can and do cancel their own publicly identifiable members at all levels whenever they deem it beneficial.
I stand by my father’s advice.