Of all of his failings, I don't think you can really blame that one on him. His time had to balance an alliance of states that had really wanted to be a confederacy with reestablishing (small r) republicanism for the first meaningful time beyond the city-state level in two thousand years.

There's going to be some misses.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm, but who should we blame then? Our two headed oligarchy is nearly the worst possible attempt at a democracy amongst the developed world and yet it was designed to be as difficult as possible to improve or replace.

Of all the problems the US has, our lack of a functioning democracy is by the most frustrating.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Time itself and modern fascism?

It's not super surprising that the first modern attempt at federal democracy would have some bad takes, but no system can function when half of the people in it are bad faith actors.

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does the small r go on reestablishing or republican 🤔

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's a small r because they didn't want to share freedom with the hard r

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Fun fact. George Washington died of bloodletting, despite the practice being largely relegated to the dustbin of history centuries beforehand.

The man was not particularly forward thinking.