You do have actual opinions TT !!!
Observation allows for the occasional opinion, tho I find you can revisit a topic or even an opinion and find something different to review. NOTHING is static or absolute, other than the absolute itself in its ability to express the potential of something in different ways, and be experienced in different ways.
I guess that would be my question to you TT is our view of past people and ideals really what we think it is. What makes you so sure that democracy was so much better in the past, the Washington movie certainly painted a different story.
Like religion, people who watch a movie and say "that is" or "was what it was", rather than watching several movies by different directors and then doing the research above and beyond the movie set, can hardly objectify anything.
What history shows me, is that democracy was not the formula for natural law.
Man did not form the universal law that created man, nor the laws which governs the rights and freedoms within the constitution, but rather, man interprets the objective understandings, or mans observances of the nature of reality.
That was the thinking behind the creation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
These things were not considered democratic but above opinion and deliberation. The intent of the founding fathers was to create a fool proof system to protect the rights and freedoms of man so that special interests could not dilute the nature of reality into belief systems.
Government however has become what religion has become, a Church to the nature of creation. A majority rule by influence.
Laws are created to serve the interests of individual opinion rather than the nature of reality.
The people of the past are no different than the people today, in that they are a diverse group being influenced or influencing those around them according to their understanding of the nature of reality.
Nothing sacred is free from the persecution of the opposing ideal. As long as man is conflicted within himself, so will man bring his affliction into society.
So I guess what interests me is why you think the founders were extremely knowledgeable about democracy what drives your conviction?
Understanding of Self Awareness and selflessness.
Not having a go at you TT I have certain views on historic scientists as well how accurate those views are is always a bit tricky and I wonder if I have it right.
I wonder if you really wonder. So far the most prominent features presented in your opinions are the features of a personal nature, reflecting upon the Socialist background of human torture around your family history.
You seem more inclined to burn the opposition at the stake rather than rally the truth into transforming the opposition.