If you see yourself as a patriot, as one who admires the founding fathers, lend your support to individuals who most closely follow some of their ideals.
Ben Franklin is a good example of those ideals.
Where are your priorities?
Does whomever you support come close to living by these standards?
Benjamin Franklin’s four rules for living are usually presented as these:
- Be extremely frugal until your debts are paid.
- Tell the truth and act with sincerity.
- Work diligently and avoid get-rich-quick distractions.
- Speak ill of no one, and instead say what is good about others.
Franklin is also famous for his longer list of 13 virtues, which includes temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
Lying, cheating, bragging, bullying, vengefulness, egotism are not qualities to be admired or tolerated.
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Amazing! No one who reads your blog posts is more of a fan of Ben than me.
That said, given your focus on Trumps faults (and there are many, he is an idiot and an ass), I’m surprised that you don’t focus on all of Ben Franklin’s faults – as a former slave holder, as a philanderer, as someone who all but disowned his own son, as a “traitor” to the first American patriots who wanted independence (Ben was the one person, who, while physically in England, did his best to guide England in ways that would mend the rifts and avoid the blow up which became American independence) – before becoming a patriot himself.
See: https://401kspecialistmag.com/trump-is-no-franklin-but/
Ben was the first American. Benjamin Franklin is the only Founding Father to sign all four of the primary documents that established the United States: the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Treaty of Alliance with France (1778), the Treaty of Paris (1783), and the U.S. Constitution (1787). These documents solidified American independence, secured crucial foreign support, ended the Revolutionary War, and created the federal government framework.
See also: Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity. I met the author, Michael Meyer. The book is a fantastic read.
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