Sometimes I like to go over to left leaning sites to either bother my liberal counterparts, or to see what kind of nonsense they are talking about. What surprises me so often is that so many on the left are either ignorant of history, or just cannot stand the founding fathers of this nation that they would purposely tell lies about them, like some JR. high school student trying to make new friends.

What I often hear some of the more progressive people say is that the founding fathers were racist slave owners, and this is why those small government, Tea Party, southern state loving, homophobes, are that way, we follow the racist ideology that wants to preserve states’ rights so we can go back to our glory days of Black Code and Jim Crow.

This skulduggery should surprise no one coming from the same people who still to this day claim that all Republicans care about are the rich, and that all conservatives are uneducated dopes. It is nothing more than an ostentatious attempt to defend our president, the one they so valiantly defend, even after he signed into law the same Bush tax cuts that has widened the gap between those with and those without; the same president that bypassed congress to start a war that if Bush would have done we would have seen calls for impeachment trials in the House and Senate.

So I decided to use my Diary to postulate my feelings on their attempt to defend the President at the expense of hard working Americans that would rather not see their government take over health care, or bailout banks with billions of tax payer money.

The real story of what the founding fathers did traverses way beyond affecting just our federal system. When the founders were writing the constitution, they had a great many things to debate, but one of the most contentious was the slave trade,  James Madison was staunchly against it, but indeed understood why they had to compromise with the southern states.

Madison called the slave trade “this infernal traffic”and “every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.”

Madison stated bluntly what he felt slave traders did to the nation “they bring the justice of heaven on a country. As Nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.”

He was right, the nation did see some very bad days before it got to the point where we could really call it the freest nation on Earth, it would become the America we all love today. But it was that compromise that built a nation that was stronger than the “infernal traffic” as Madison had once described it. Without the compromises, anarchy may have been the result, and this would have weakened the nation by splitting the states apart, which would have likely left the slaves in a more helpless situation.

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