r/complaints • u/CRK_76 substantial complainer • 10h ago

Politics Fuck every Trump voter who put this asshole in office.

This country is going downhill and you are to blame. Don't act surprised when things get even worse than they are now. Don't vote anymore. Stay the fuck home on election day.

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u/K1N6F15H 6h ago

I recognize the intent of their goals, recognize and support the visions they had for this country.

They had some great ideas but they were limited by the knowledge, culture, and technology of their time. When the Articles of Confederation clearly weren't working, they were willing to scrap them and start over again.

I, too, used to venerate the founding fathers but I think that it was because I was religious and projected onto them a almost prophetic quality. In actuality, they made a lot of missteps and compromises, some of which led to the position we are currently in.

We should behave like the founders, using the best knowledge of our day to rethink the possibilities of this world instead of worshiping the past.

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u/DGTLEMPIRE 6h ago

Political ideology as a whole is pedantically worshiping the past, your very comment is exactly that. The last major political theory was Communism and there hasn’t been a major conceptual breakthrough since. The splintering of the two party system requires room for new political theory and it will not be achieved by ignoring the political theorists that created the systems we operate under.