My favorite fact about George Washington was how he was born, fully grown, and on his horse.
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This is now also my favourite fact
Save the children(but not the British children)
Did the watershed event also cause the death of 50 messengers and a war between two world superpowers?
Maybe he should've helped design a political system that doesn't inevitably lead to a two party system.
Of all of his failings, I don't think you can really blame that one on him. His time had to balance an alliance of states that had really wanted to be a confederacy with reestablishing (small r) republicanism for the first meaningful time beyond the city-state level in two thousand years.
There's going to be some misses.
Does the small r go on reestablishing or republican 🤔
It's a small r because they didn't want to share freedom with the hard r
Hmm, but who should we blame then? Our two headed oligarchy is nearly the worst possible attempt at a democracy amongst the developed world and yet it was designed to be as difficult as possible to improve or replace.
Of all the problems the US has, our lack of a functioning democracy is by the most frustrating.
Time itself and modern fascism?
It's not super surprising that the first modern attempt at federal democracy would have some bad takes, but no system can function when half of the people in it are bad faith actors.
I too prefer George Washington as seen through a cathode ray tube.
I was at two parties last weekend and it was great wtf do you mean
Oh boy another thread where we get to debate third parties
Washington was referring to any political parties, as well as foreign influencers. It may be difficult in a fast paced sound bite world, but debating core ideas and solutions themselves should be what we do, not this sports politics where single words become the shouted arguments. I listen to some talk shows where the callers are shut down all because the host will ask them what they mean by the word or phrase they use as a rebuttal, and they don't know what it means at all, only that they heard/read it somewhere and it sounded good. "Woke" is a great one, and one I often see online here too.
Wasn't my intent, just general dissatisfaction with how systemic this bullshit is