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.
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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.
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.
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