Jon Ossoff: ‘Just Think, 250 Years On, What the Founders Would See if They Visited Us Today’

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OSSOFF: “They would see that Americans without land and then women and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights. They would see that our science and discovery propelled human knowledge to unimaginable heights, and that those 13 colonies had grown into a superpower that defeated the Nazis and communism. They’d see a pluralist democracy, people of all colors descended from every point on Earth, stitched together out of many nations into one. But they’d also see a nation, that at the height of its wealth and power, fell into the very traps they most feared, devouring itself in bitter conflict between warring factions captured by special interests. And they’d see a faithless president exploiting this rot to pursue the absolute power they overthrew. A president who has embarked on this unmistakable project not to lead us, but to rule us.”