#founding fathers

[mangshadow]

Founding fathers yaoi

[here-a-lee-there-a-lee]

i like to think they do this often

[standwithdaanes]

It's the 250th Fourth of July or something. Let's talk about democracy.

The United States cannot be saved by returning to the Revolutionary War or the Founding Fathers or the Enlightenment. We cannot find the solution to Western imperialism from the core of Western imperialism; we cannot find the escape from capitalist modernity from within capitalist modernity.

Every terrible thing that is happening in the United States - and all that which seeps out from it to the rest of the Americas and the rest of the world - can be traced back to authoritarianism, hierarchy, and the commodification of people and the natural world. The U.S has always been, at its best, "state-plus-democracy," having been forced to compromise and share power with the people, and the state is always seeking for ways to maintain its hegemonic power. Your voice doesn't matter because it was never supposed to matter, not as much as the businessmen. You feel this disempowered because you were always supposed to be powerless, your vote just part of an elaborate system meant to keep the peace between the wealthy and keep the poor productive. This country was never for you; it's all been one long con, and even the con-artists had themselves convinced it was "for the People."

In order to truly love democracy, and all the people of the Americas, you must hate the United States, which has only ever captured the will of the people to lend legitimacy to the rule of the wealthy. True (direct) democracy is possible, and it will be achieved through landback, Black liberation, gender liberation, solidarity with the Global South, and socialism.

Read more here.

[liberaljane]

🦅  If the Founders  dropped their 27 grievances today, it’d probably be labeled as “too political.” Don't get me wrong—the Founders were deeply flawed, and the Declaration of Independence was written with explicitly racist language. Even so, for the world's oldest constitution, many of the grievances they identified have striking similarities to the abuses of power we see today.

🤔 💭 Here are some of the things the Founders would have disagreed with… 

🏠 The deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, even when elected officials objected. The Founders argued there should not be “Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.” (Grievance 12)

💸 Using emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on imported goods. The Founders argued the government shouldn’t impose “...taxes on us without our consent” (Grievance 17 & 18)

🚧 Selling off federally protected land to oil companies and incentivizing the exploitation of clean water sources for AI Data Centers. The Founders fought against those who “...plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people” (Grievance 25)

🗳️ Pressuring elected officials to overturn election results like in the 2020 election. The Founders fought against those who “..refuse for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise...” (Grievance 7)

Let’s just say if the Founders came back today, they’d have a lot of questions about America at 250.

[ricecake-052]

Father and son

[inkafterdark]

It's said that Burr stepped forward, attempting to meet Hamilton's side, but was held back.

[boyduroy]

bruh I spent 5 minutes looking at this book like "who tf is Ben, what did they do with Ringo?" before I realized it was about the founding fathers of the United States