# What would the Founding Fathers think of America today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 25, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-founding-fathers-think-of-america-today/23494 "2000-06-25T20:48:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-founding-fathers-think-of-america-today/23494/21 "2000-06-27T13:22:01Z")
They’d be quite pissed, I would think. “Why have you freed the slaves, allowed women and men without property to vote, and allowed common workmen to otherwise usurp the rights of property?” ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-founding-fathers-think-of-america-today/23494/22 "2000-06-27T16:37:50Z")
Duck Duck Goose wrote: > [@](#): > > Adams is going to detest Boston A.D. 2000, “Um, excuse me, they have this thing called ‘traffic flow’, you may have heard of it?” Hey! They’re workin’ on it, they’re workin’ on it! They’ve got that whole “big dig” thing going to alleviate their traffic congestion problems. (Sure, we’ll have to wait until 2004 before it opens, but they’re workin’ on it!) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2000, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-the-founding-fathers-think-of-america-today/23494/23 "2000-06-30T11:11:10Z")
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