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jacob silverman's avatar

readers may notice here how it is autistic. it keeps switch from one "person" to the other, eg third persons to first person to second... I don't seem to distinguish. I will just start imitating somebody whom I am thinking about and then switch to third person or pretending I am a famous Substack writer....

Thomas Cleary's avatar

But just like the Founding Fathers today’s tin horn tyrants believe that life, liberty and happiness belong only to them.

jacob silverman's avatar

I just think that the reasoning of persons like Pete Hegseth is so lame. The “founding fathers” (this is a term invented fifty years later, not in the time of the persons concerned) actually did develop ideas of a plurality of persons, representing “The People,” who were endowed with these sorts of liberties and freedoms and who were, therefore equal as to that. I know about the Indians and blacks being excluded…

But today’s tin-horn tyrants (not the same as the American Originals/fathers) like Pete Hegseth are like the sort of jail guards or right-wing public speakers who declare their wisdom but never debate or discuss it. It would not stand up very well to intellectual (ie analytical) scrutiny…