When I think about this (reading the article) it always has dumbfounded me how much more intelligent and thoughtful the founding fathers and many other intelle

When I think about this (reading the article) it always has dumbfounded me how much more intelligent and thoughtful the founding fathers and many other intellectuals of the 1700's were then our current corporate CEO's and lifelong politicians. However, the more I think about it, the more I realize in the 1700's they lived a life of dealing with people so they had to work together and it forced them to see peoples motives so they could more easily call out the basic human behaviors. Most times conflict then was not resolved in a court or kept on an Internet forum but through physical means, and when war or fighting is the conflict resolution method you learn to avoid it as the costs are so much greater. Today, so much of our society sits behind a keyboard and spews vitriol and hatred just to see what happens, and then polarizes people behind false walls and narratives, destroying what people strived so hard to put together over 200 years ago. Sadly in the US, I think the lack of studying history for what it was and the reasons the founders fought for the laws and protections we have has doomed us to repeat so many of the same mistakes of times prior. Many of our citizens, especially those who have grown up in the digital age, need to relearn why freedom is delicate and applying rules to thee but not to me is a recipe for immense societal pain. They need to see past Trump who is a symptom of the deeper problem, and instead of focusing on silencing a voice or opinion they don't like, they need to learn to protect it because their voice will be next as the cycle will spin faster and faster until it spins off axis.