Marakesh 𓅦 on Nostr: > "We’re living in the Fourth American Republic. Those who speak of conserving the ...

> "We’re living in the Fourth American Republic. Those who speak of conserving the work of “the founding fathers” or “the American experiment” are living in a republic of the imagination alone. Many conservatives like to quote Benjamin Franklin who, upon exiting the 1787 constitution convention allegedly said that the convention had created _“a republic, if you can keep it.” Well, they didn’t “keep it.”_ It disappeared in the nineteenth century, and what we have today is something else altogether" (emphasis added).
https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-are-living-fourth-american-republic#:~:text=We%E2%80%99re%20living%20in,something%20else%20altogether
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