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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Founding Fathers weren't amateurs
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The men who freed this country from King George and then went on to forge a new nation were intellectual elites, the educated inheritors of The Renaissance and products of the Early Modern Age. They were able to create a new government because they were experts in government, educated in war and politics and science and religion and economics and social structures and all the hundreds of other things it takes to build a nation instead of tear one down.
Unlike their foolish descendants, the Founders knew that liberty and democracy and good government take far more than shallow patriotism.
Good government takes intellect, education, experience, curiosity, and a willingness to surround leadership with expert advice and support.
More than anything, it takes the cultivation of intelligence instead of pandering to the lowest common denominator.
Myths are important to a nation, but a firm appreciation of actual history serves a free people to far greater effect.
There is no virtue in ignorance.
And amateurs make for a lousy republic.
If you want a better nation, if you want better leaders, you have to be better citizens.
MUCH MORE HERE:
http://www.stonekettle.com/2017/04/the-hubris-of-ignorance.html
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)If you don't believe that, then just look at the document they produced.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)... if you really think that is what made them what they were.
LunaSea
(2,895 posts)Had me at that line.
Excellent read, including the comments.
Thanks!
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William769
(55,147 posts)JudyM
(29,265 posts)Independent media and an informed electorate were also assumed.