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Originally Posted by Vigilante
Yes, I would agree that you are un-American in that respect. They had nothing to say about health care because it didn't exist back then. That fact that they were white, or slave owners, or that they wore funny looking hairpieces has nothing to do with the historic thought processes that went through their heads.
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And I think it's un-American to use the Constitution as a tool for inaction. It sickens me that people take the document that our country is built upon and twist the idea of "enumerated rights" as a crutch for their own agendas.
Of course it doesn't matter that the Founding Fathers were white or slave-owners. I was being glib. But it's unbelievable to me that when it comes to health care (or gay marriage, or whatever "liberal" issue is at hand that day), people so readily say, "well, the Founding Fathers didn't specifically say they could have XXXX, so fuck them!"