Do you think history, Americans especially, remember the Founding

>>1454759
Not entirely. Though it's mostly irrelevant, because we generally don't even care about the full character or history of them more so their contributions to specific memorable events.

Most were otherwise self interested business owners or educated types coming from wealthy families, all local elites. The control of their trade and taxation by an overseas government without representation on their part should be understood in this context. The focusing on liberty and political experimentation, while interesting can undermine the rationale for the revolution

I think that laypeople in America have overly uncritical opinions of them for the most part, but they are represented fairly in higher education history courses. Their idealization isn't perpetuated by education so much as general zealousness about the principles that they codified, that Americans take pride in.

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>>1454759
Most lay persons can't name a founding father who isn't Jefferson, Washington, or Franklin, let alone form any kind of opinion about them.

In fact, if we were to heed the words of our founders, we wouldn't be playing World police in the retarded shitshow that is Globalization

They've become a vague symbol for anything politically convenient but especially versions of American exceptionalism.

The average person could not list more than 3 or 4, let alone describe the particular political ideas of one or two of them.