Advice from a small town girl

I’ve been thinking about the founding fathers quite a bit lately.

It seems to me that some of us practically worship those men, without really understanding them.

Before I go any farther with this line of thought, I need to say that I find the founding fathers to be a pretty impressive bunch of guys. But they weren’t gods, or even demi-gods.

I think that we like to cherry-pick from among all of the things they believed, wrote or said until we find those things that justify what is in our own self-interest.

We like to forget, or forgive, that many of the men we identify as founding fathers were...