Our Fathers

Now we have Highland Park. Some, the Left Wing Snowflake News pundits in particular, once again bleat, "This isn't our country! This isn't what the Founding Fathers conceived!" Well, horseshit. The Founders were insurrectionists, and fully expected that the 'new' Federal government would needs be overthrown from time to time, just as was the British. At the time, there were the 13 states along the eastern seaboard, and a vast land of resources easily (in a relative sense) taken from the red heathens. The notion of a national governance was totally foreign; getting the slave based South to agree to a Constitution which reflected an urban North required a bit compromise. On the North's side.

At the time, almost all hard currency was earned from Southern exports. He who holds the gold makes the rules.

One such insurrection was Shays' Rebellion in my home state of Massachusetts, just before the nation was official.

In a letter to William Stephens Smith on November 13, 1787, Jefferson wrote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Of course, if one takes the Originalist's view, slavery is natural and the Amendments should be ignored and rescinded. If you have the notion that the early USofA was a bucolic, peaceful place, just read up this list of insurrections. The Goober Court seeks to take us back to those good times.

Whether the Second was primarily to give cover to Southern slaveholders or to keep the Federal government on its toes remains in debate. What is unambiguous is that the decades of The Founders was a USofA mostly of primitive Goobers. There was a reason that nearly anything useful came from the other side of The Pond.