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Originally Posted by IUHoosiergirl88
I sometimes wonder how Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson would have dealt with the issues of global instability or radicalism; or how Lincoln and Kennedy would have dealt with gay rights and other social issues.
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My guess is that they'd be too busy trying to acclimate themselves to the idea that we're not an agrarian society anymore.
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Originally Posted by pbear19
There are things that we do today that everyone takes for granted as being something the Founders would have supported, when in fact, they explicitly came out against it. (And never mind that the term "Founders" in and of itself is somewhat ridiculous to use in these contexts, since they had as many different opinions about how the government should be structured as politicians do today.)
. . . Let's make no mistake though, it's not the past four years that have made a significant difference since the founding era.
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Yep to both statements.
On another topic, I don't care at all the Beyoncé lip-synced, and her performance didn't annoy me nearly as much as some others I've heard, but I wish that just once at an event like an inauguration, whoever sings the national anthem would be content to sing it the way it was written, without needing to make it "their own." Sometimes, it's really not about the singer.