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Originally Posted by Robbie
I don't presume to try and guess what the founding fathers would have thought of social issues. Quite frankly they were very liberal minded on those matters. Especially Jefferson and Ben Franklin.
What I DO know is that they believed in a limited federal govt. and the citizens having control over their own lives.
If you don't believe that and think the govt. is supposed to be a "nanny state" and fund everything for people...that is your right.
But being a smartass to me and trying to say I'm "channeling" the founding fathers so you can feel good about your opinion is just stupid.
Our country was founded on certain enduring principals of thought.
Yes, the details change over time. But the core base of it remains true. And I do believe that the Founding Fathers would be disgusted by what has happened to their vision of a "New World Order" in which the people would be in charge as opposed to being ruled over by the govt.
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One thing I can say with certainty is that you are 100% dead wrong in saying I 'tried' to say you were channelling the founding fathers 'so i could fell good about my opinion'. What makes you think I was trying to feel good about my opinion? Hell, I'm not even sure what my motivation was in making the comment. Maybe I was just trying to pass the time and make a little conversation, it's really hard to say, but I do know for a fact that it was not 'so I could feel good about my opinion'. Making the comment had absolutely no bearing whatsoever on 'how I feel about my opinion', whatever that opinion may be. So you made a blatantly incorrect assumption as to the reasoning behind my statement. That is a fact. Now tell me, if in a conversation including both you and I on a shared forum in 2015, you cannot make a correct assumption as to what I am saying, how am I or is anyone supposed to believe that you'd be able to correctly interpret what the founding fathers said over 200 years ago in what was a vastly different culture? And even if you could, why would it matter?