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In reply to the discussion: Princeton study: U.S. no longer an actual democracy [View all]AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)They also lived in the 18th and early 19th centuries.....
....where everyone thought and acted and knew all the things we do now! Oh wait....
So many little and not so little things we take for granted now did not (could not) even occur to the Founding Fathers. Things like women not wearing corsets, or men with lace cuffs and powdered wigs not being normal. Hell, even the concept of TIME was a local thing. Clocks never synced up until the Railroads were invented. Indoor plumbing! A huge myriad of differences that would make it VERY hard for any of us to survive in the Founding Father's time.
Pointing out they lived in the 18th century is very important, but must be understood too. (It's the entire problem with the 2nd amendment)
The THING is we've gotten better (women can vote as well as take off their corsets) or we USED to get better. We 're not supposed to be going backwards.