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The Entitlement Society 0

Via the Charlotte Observer, LZ Granderson argues that “(m)en like Trump represent what the founders were fighting against.” Here’s a bit of his argument:

Read Thomas Paine’s 250-year-old essay, “Common Sense,” and you see few things bothered Colonial men more than servitude to geopolitical nepo-babies. It’s evident in the writings and personal libraries of our earliest presidents, such as Thomas Jefferson. You can trace that sentiment all the way back to the Greek philosophers whom the founders studied before this nation began.

Their aversion wasn’t to wealth and power. It was about what can happen to a person who grows up knowing nothing but wealth and power.

Follow the link for the rest of his reasoning.

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