What do you actually stand to lose if we teach that the founders were fallible and flawed individuals? Your ability to idolize mere men as supermen? I don’t get it, they were often quite literally the local aristocrats living at the top of the hill.

Why the impulse towards rote idolatry? It’s good to you to have a dearth of nuanced understanding? You can criticize the country and still love it, it’s willful simple-mindedness to say otherwise