Why the Founding Fathers Still Matter (Yes, Now)

Posted by ComfortableExcuse469@reddit | Libertarian | View on Reddit | 14 comments

Why the Founding Fathers Still Matter (Yes, Now)

Most people think the Founding Fathers are just dusty names in textbooks. But if you actually read what they said and look at what they built, you realize they weren’t just leaders…

They were rebels against overreach, against censorship, against government control.

They believed:

Rights come from God, not government.
Government’s job is to protect those rights—not hand them out like permission slips.
The people are the ultimate authority. Period.

They gave us:

🔫 The right to bear arms (as a check against tyranny)
🗣 The right to speak freely (especially when it’s unpopular)
📜 A Constitution that limits government—not the people

But here we are today…
Watching our rights get erased, “for your safety.”
Watching speech get silenced, “for the greater good.”
Watching power shift further away from the people.

The Founders warned us this would happen. They expected future generations to hold the line. That’s supposed to be us.

If you feel something’s wrong—you’re not broken. You’re paying attention.
Now go help someone else wake up before it’s too late.

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ComfortableExcuse469@reddit (OP)

Just look at how the Bill of Rights is being gutted in real time:

2nd Amendment – Felons, red flag laws, and state-level defiance—all rubber-stamped by a Supreme Court too spineless to enforce “shall not be infringed.”
1st Amendment – Free speech is now “protected” only if it’s pre-approved. Censorship’s been rebranded as “community safety.”
4th Amendment – Gone. Phones tapped, homes raided, tech companies turning your devices into state surveillance gear.
5th Amendment – Due process? Optional. People locked up with no charge, no judge—especially under the mental health excuse.
Mental health loopholes – “72 hours” becomes 6+ days if it’s a weekend. Docs are ignored. Rights are suspended the second someone says “for your own good.”

The Founders would’ve flipped the table by now.

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ComfortableExcuse469@reddit (OP)

And you're point? To clarify you're right I had AI rewrite my words to make it look nicer, more legible, duh... However what you won't be able to do is tell me why it's bullshit.

Cannoli72@reddit

founders weren’t monolithic. just look at the battles between the Hamiltonians vs Jeffersonians. Matter of fact you can blame all of today’s problems on the Hamiltonians

Falconine527@reddit

This is just AI bullshit. See the em dashes and “You’re not broken”

Good_wolf@reddit

I would push back just a little on the whole "God" thing. They do reference a Creator, but not the Judeo Christian "God" in particular.

I'm too tired to write out a whole essay, but Christianity wasn't a monolithic force in Colonial America. Rather, you had several differing sects who might not see eye to eye so I think the Creator angle was just the thing to get around that. And it also allowed for any atheists to still claim their natural rights. Their creator was nature itself, in a way.

Easy_Magician_925@reddit

Lots of people came to America to get away from religious bullshit.

dwe3000@reddit

I'm not an expert, so I acknowledge I may be wrong, but my understanding was that many of the leaders (not all, by any means) of the time were Deists - they believed in a Creator that didn't take an active role in the Creation beyond the initial creation.

Correct. And I suspect that Franklin was an atheist but that’s a hard thing to prove so many years later. Suffice to say he was at least a deist.

hotdog_terminator@reddit

Judeo Christian is crazy

GimmeTwo@reddit

There was also a backlash against religion following the Salem Witch Trials that was still felt 70 years later.

Now that I’ve had a chance to wake up throughout the day, one more thing I would gently push back on is the concept that the framers “gave” us our rights. They didn’t give them, they recognized that they were inherent to being human and spelled them out. Take the second amendment, the right to keep and bear arms is based on the right of all natural creatures to self defense. The anti federalists had them spelled out because they were afraid that unless constrained, even our government would creep towards tyranny. And they were proven right by John Adams and the federalist party passing the Alien and Sedition act which was blatantly anti 1A as well as freedom in general.