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Originally Posted by Sdiver
Either 1.21 Giga Watts or a TARDIS.
How else to you expect to travel through time ????
HellooooOOOOOooooo.
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You made a counter factual argument that the founding fathers would be surprised with what they'd see today.
The point of my rhetorical question was to suggest the slight possibility that the turmoil of their day was actually worse, the political divisions were deeper, the challenges they faced were greater, and that they made even bigger mistakes--including a discussion of secession during the Hartford Convention--than the ones politicians are making today.
In short, strident political, social, economic, and cultural conflict have been persistent features of America's past. The interpretation that there was a halcyon period in which Americans broadly agreed on most issues is an idyllic myth.
MOO, if they were to be dumbfounded, it would be over the angst-ridden woe-is-me-the-end-is-neigh hand wringing of ideologues on the left and the right in the face of relatively straightforward issues, the impact of Jacksoniasm Democracy [Andrew, not Jessie], and Sofia Vergara's bountiful, ah, er,
accent.