Friday, April 10, 2009

He Got The Political Problems Right

xkcd on time travel:

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It's hard to blame Franklin for getting that one wrong. He gave the future this quote, which seems particularly apt these days, when asked what the Constitutional convention had produced:

A republic, if you can keep it.

That should have been all the wisdom we inhabitants of the future needed.


2 comments:

Dana Hunter said...

Poor Ben. I'm not sure he'd be laughing or screaming at the state of the country today. At least I know who he'd be with: total DFH, he was.

All those idiots who worship the Founders would be calling them pinko sociocommiefascists were they around today.

Cujo359 said...

Franklin was an original. He was a big factor getting the printing business going in the U.S. He used to import new presses and sell his slightly used ones at a reduced rate to up-and-coming publishers.

While I'm not sure how they'd view all the Founders, the right certainly would have accused Franklin of being a DFH.