Smite Him!
by digby
Somehow I think the Founders would find the fact that Americans are being told they shouldn’t criticize them rather alarming.
[Ezra]Klein also made a statement at the end of his attack on the idea of States Rights that is offensive to those who revere our Founding Fathers. Klein made an offensive comment that he is wiser than men who spilled their own blood to form our union.
At about 1:33 into this clip Klein trashes our Founding Fathers.
I think our veneration for the Founders is something that occasionally perplexes me.
This is a truly outrageous statement and is evidence of Progressives distain for our Founding Fathers.
Pass me the smellin’ salt’s Miss Mellie, why I like to faint! “Distain” for our Foundin’ Fathahs?
Somehow I doubt that the Founders expected that Americans two hundred years hence would be worshiping them like Gods and revering their words as if they were handed down by God himself. That, after all, is what defines Kings. And unless I’m mistaking my history, the Founders had some fairly strong opinions on that sort of thing.
But the right sees itself essentially as a patriotic priesthood, assigned by God and the ghosts of the Founders to be the only interpreters of the ancient texts. It is not for us to question, merely to submit.
*And anyway, it was the Black Robed Regiment who really led the revolution:
These patriot-preachers were staunchly patriotic, seriously independent, and steadfastly courageous. They were found in almost all of the various Protestant denominations at the time: Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Anglican, Lutheran, German Reformed, etc. Their Sunday sermons — more than Patrick Henry’s oratory, Sam Adams’ and James Warren’s “Committees of Correspondence,” or Thomas Paine’s “Summer Soldiers and Sunshine Patriots” — inspired, educated, and motivated the colonists to resist the tyranny of the British Crown, and fight for their freedom and independence. Without the Black Regiment, there is absolutely no doubt that we would still be a Crown colony, with no Declaration of Independence, no U.S. Constitution, no Bill of Rights, and little liberty.
It doesn’t sound like this fellow is properly venerating the sacred Founders either.
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