Having finished Ezra Klein's interview with George Will, I have only one question:
Why does anyone worship "The Founders"?
Yes, I believe the American Revolution was a mistake. And I'm not arguing that anyone at the time should have held out for a Constitution that abolished slavery, gave women the vote, enshrined equal marriage, etc. That wasn't going to happen then.
But this is 2019. We know more now. We know better now. We don't think that fully half the population should be subjugated. We don't think anyone should own another human being.
So why do we defer anything at all to what these white dudes "intended" hundreds of years ago? We need to grow up and live here, now. Make the country and world better than it is, not try to revert to what it was.
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