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As the United States government claims to spread democracy around the world and is deeply involved in ghost writing constitutions for other countries, the spotlight falls back on this country. Is the current US system a democracy, - has it ever been one? In The Myth of the Founding Fathers Michael Parenti takes us back to the early days of the republic. Who were the founding fathers, what were their goals in writing the US constitution? Whom did they exclude and whom did they favor? What was their attitude towards slavery? How many of them actually wanted to create a monarchy? And who - in the end - ratified the constitution after it was written?

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  • The problem with the United States is there was never a true revolution. There was a civil war/rebellion against British rule. European nations had real revolutions or were exposed to revolutionary ideas. The US has remained issolated from this influence and this is why the US is so conservative.

  • Anarchist Communism is the answer.

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  • Ha ha,your country isnt even following the constitution,you have no idea how your country would be if it had followed the constitution.It would be alot better than it is now.

  • @zWzld Love, lust, and passion transcends almost all other beliefs.

  • There was actually, at least if Russell is right, quite a bit of alcoholism, beer-drinking, prostitution, etc. etc. in early colonial America. There was even plenty of RACE-MIXING, which was, of course, taboo at the time.

  • There was a FOURTH reason why the Constitution was drafted, actually: According to Thaddeus Russell, as he details in his awesome book- A Renegade History of the United States- the Founders saw most (or at least 'too many') American citizens as extremely immoral and/or debaucherous. They had "no virtue", and the Founders thought that a strong democratic gov't would FORCE that urgency of responsibility on the people and make them 'more moral' in the long run. Among other reasons

  • America was a christian country, all the people were christians. The founder fathers made freedom of religion, but they never thought America could have gay marriage, abortion, satanic music and movies, and Islam. The founder fathers themselves could be here to debunk the first amendment

  • True communism is anarchistic, funny how no one seems to know this.

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