I dont think Washington was that enlightened is what I was getting at. He let the assassination confession be buried by History and became known as George "I cannot tell a lie" Washington when even the Cherry Tree story is untrue. You want enlightened Founding Fathers you look at guys rejected by the Patriot Establishment, guys omitted from the mythology of the creation of the "free" United Stated. Guys like Patrick Henry, who refused to sign the Constitution because he felt it gave the Executive to much power and would lend to the eventual creation of a despot.
Imagine if Patrick Henry were alive right this second lol. He'd be organizing a State revolt, to be certain.
The answer is a truly free Country, not the myth we were sold. The American Revolution did not culminate in 1776, it culminated in 1861 after the overt racial heirarchy was challenged and somewhat dismantled. The radical Republicans of the day were not looking to operate within the system or give it undue credit, they were attempting to dismantle it. Disgusting 3/5 compromise, gone. Birthright citizenship for all born here regardless of race. Equal protection under the law regardless of race or gender. No State aggression without due process of law.
So is it any wonder that these Amendments are ALWAYS targeted by the right? They gut them, they lie about them, they misrepresent them, all hidden behind this horsesh*t of "originalism" which keeps us locked into the mindsets of these specific false idols from HUNDREDS of years ago. It's not an accident, its not a blunder. It has a purpose. Its maintaining the heirarchy, the power of the capital class. And that can only be maintained with inequality, and only supported by people who BELIEVE they're on a higher tier than other people. Hence looking down on specific immigrants and even specific citizens as
@Brampton_Boy had experienced.
Let's spell this out plainly as it pertains to the United States and why d*ckheads like JD Vance are REALLY saying "Heritage Americans." Jamed Madison largely authored the Naturalization Act of 1790, a very clear Act to define US Citizens. Know what it says?
It says "free white persons." There's no confusing it, that's what it says. These "originalists" and people who call themselves "Federalists" want a return to what's referred to as the Antebellum Constitution, the one that institutionalized slavery, that institutionalized racial heirarchy. That 1790 Naturalization Act remained intact all the way until 1952, which is why most immigration before the 1950's was pretty much entirely European and there was a ton of anti-Chinese sentiment during the railroad construction. They're throwing in Christianity with it because Christianity also condones slavery, even instructs how to do it properly, and they know which demographic most Christians are and that they will likely subscribe to both the Founding Myth, and the myth that these men were also Christian Nationalists (they weren't, they believed religion was private, not public). We can best combat that with not letting the narrative be controlled, the US severely f*cked up with that after the Civil War where the South were allowed to mythologize the Confederates behind the "Lost Cause" narrative that was very successful.
For a while MAGA had a great narrative, but its cracking. The Epstein problem could do them in, and they're already falling apart and turning on each other even in the media spaces. The regime is comically incompetent. Its gonna get a bit worse before it gets any better, but the clock is definitely ticking. The best American thinkers of the day need to not be thinking about how to make money off it, but what kind of Country do we become after it? We could be a for real beacon of freedom and not just a pretend one.
