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That's a really broad brush you're painting with. It's almost as if the founding father is were complex human beings with complex issues that they had to compromise a lot on in order to even start the country we live in. I mean they kicked that slavery can down the road, where it landed and started the Civil War.
That really is the problem with a lot of the Constitution and similar founding documents. Some of them were widely popular universally (such as banning the quartering of troops) at the time but have little real bearing on our lives today if any. Others were so divisive that they had no choice but to either leave them out entirely (slavery) or compromise messily (iirc that's why we have the electoral college, but I'm rusty on the details).
But no I mean let's just hold them up as if they were demigods who could make no errors and knew everything. Because that makes fucking sense.
So you agree with me? What's your point? Pretending things are the same as 200 years ago is willfully ignorant. Pretending the constitution is a sacred document like the ten commandments is dumb.
Yeah, they agreed with you. Their point is that they agreed with you. Sometimes people just share their thoughts and aren't trying to start a fight.
Sometimes is hard to read between the booze lol.