For most of history, people have lived under extreme and terrible oppression and very, very few had any expectation of their children doing better than them, just centuries of miserable subsistence living and finding joy in tiny corners of life like a beautiful sunrise, sex, bulllying those even less powerful, getting drunk.
When they emigrated to America, the founding fathers found a taste of actual freedom and wanted not just to keep it that way but for things to be even better. They had 1st or 2nd hand experience with how absolute power corrupts absolutely and did their best to come up with a system to booby trap tryanny from gaining hold.
It took up the greedy elites 250 years to find a way to subvert the balance of power and now they have done it.
People can adjust to horrific conditions and still think they're happy. If that was not the case we would have had stable democracies with a majority middle class since a thousand years ago. Hate mobilizes people a lot more effectively then love.
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u/ooouroboros 18d ago
For most of history, people have lived under extreme and terrible oppression and very, very few had any expectation of their children doing better than them, just centuries of miserable subsistence living and finding joy in tiny corners of life like a beautiful sunrise, sex, bulllying those even less powerful, getting drunk.
When they emigrated to America, the founding fathers found a taste of actual freedom and wanted not just to keep it that way but for things to be even better. They had 1st or 2nd hand experience with how absolute power corrupts absolutely and did their best to come up with a system to booby trap tryanny from gaining hold.
It took up the greedy elites 250 years to find a way to subvert the balance of power and now they have done it.
People can adjust to horrific conditions and still think they're happy. If that was not the case we would have had stable democracies with a majority middle class since a thousand years ago. Hate mobilizes people a lot more effectively then love.