I'm not so sure you're entirely right. - Edit 1
Before modification by nossy at 30/08/2012 11:37:02 PM
The founding of America is simply my favorite time in history. I'm simply in awe of the men like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, and, heck, even Thomas Paine. Their personal writings are mesmerizing. Nobody writes like that anymore. You could quote just about anything they wrote and apply it to an arguement about politics and blow people away. Their intellect is unmatched nowadays, sadly. Seriously, is there anybody out there right now writing such deep, meaningful things about life and liberty?
These people wrote a document that founded a country and is still, after 200+ years, almost unassailable. How incredibly amazing is that? And also sad, that we haven't managed to improve upon the foundation that was established so many years ago. This country is simply not what it was or how it was suppose to be. Still, for all the cracks in that foundation, it's still something special.
Yes, there are quite a few specific formative events that made them what they seem to be, but you probably don't have to look so far these days to find similar people. Of course, you'd have to be open to seeing those words coming from some guy named Osama Muhammad, and mentioning Allah rather than "God."
People who are struggling are always the most likely to feel the need to burst out creatively and passionately, and to really put those urges down in any sort of elegant form. Of course, it helps that many of the FFs had money, time and education...
How I wish there was a founding father-type person running for election. What a world that would be.