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pecosbob

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Thu Nov 20, 2025, 07:45 PM Nov 20

Stop Worshipping the Founding Fathers--They Designed the American System to Screw You

Resistance History with Tad Stoermer

The founders explicitly hated democracy. They called it mob rule. And when they said "the mob," they meant everyone who didn't walk, talk, and look like them. They designed a republic to keep power away from ordinary people and lock it in the hands of a white, Protestant, property-owning elite. They said this plainly. Repeatedly. In writing.

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Stop Worshipping the Founding Fathers--They Designed the American System to Screw You (Original Post) pecosbob Nov 20 OP
Here's his blog: hunter Nov 20 #1
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