Something that nobody seems to know or they just don't talk about.

[pkveazey]

I'm trying to remember from my history classes in High School (55 years ago) about the Federalist Papers. As best I remember, the Federalist Papers were letters that the Founding Fathers sent to each other and they discussed and/or argued what the Constitution meant or was supposed to mean. One of the main things that I remember is that the Founding Fathers basically were opposed to a Standing Army. The Citizens were supposed to defend the Country. Well, that was all well and good until 1934 when the Geniuses in Washington passed the Federal Firearms Act and made it illegal to own or keep Military grade weapons of certain types. That was all due to the bank robbers of the day using machine guns. OK, they let you keep a machine gun if you paid a ridiculous fee and bought a Tax Stamp for each one you owned. Of course, that depended on whether THEY wanted to issue it to you. Now, if I'm supposed to protect the Country like the Founding Fathers intended, then why can't I own the same weapons that the Standing Army uses. It's not like I want to own an Atom Bomb. I do think that I should be allowed to own an automatic weapon of any caliber that I choose and I ought to be allowed to own hand grenades. OK, here comes the, "What about the nut cases that go berserk?" I don't see a problem with that. We just throw a hand grenade at him and the problem goes away. Did you know that you can own a cannon and it is perfectly legal but you can only shoot solid shot out of it. Exploding cannon rounds are a huge NO NO. I love the way our Founding Fathers thought and I hate the way our modern Government thinks. If those idiots that run our country educated themselves on our history, then maybe they would make better laws.

[Nemo]

 Pretty good background and overview of them.

Nemo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the collective pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. The collection was commonly known as The Federalist until the name The Federalist Papers emerged in the 20th century.

The first 77 of these essays were published serially in the Independent Journal, the New York Packet, and The Daily Advertiser between October 1787 and April 1788.[1] A compilation of these 77 essays and eight others were published in two volumes as The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 by publishing firm J. & A. McLean in March and May 1788.[2][3] The last eight papers (Nos. 78?85) were republished in the New York newspapers between June 14 and August 16, 1788.

[Nemo]

If those idiots that run our country educated themselves

On history would be good.  Just in general would likely be better.

Nemo

[RB in GA]

I believe the majority know history to a degree; but since it doesn't agree with what they want to do they ignore it.  They claim they want to build a society that's fair to everyone, but don't realize that they had it and tore it down.

[Jackalope]

    There's definitely less emphasis on history, and unfortunately it's woke history that is being taught and used.  Those in power are turning their backs on traditions, and are re-writing history to meet their ideologies.  It comes directly from the communist playbook.

[grizz]

The people "running" this Country today know our history perfectly fine, the problem is they dont like it and are doing everything in their power to turn us into a commie nation

[pkveazey]

When I was just a young lad, I enjoyed drawing with either Ink or Pencil. It didn't take me very long to realize that once a picture was finished, it should not be improved upon because every time I tried to improve it, I always ruined a perfectly good picture. Our government leaders aren't mature enough to realize what I learned as a young teenager.

[grizz]

When I was just a young lad, I enjoyed drawing with either Ink or Pencil. It didn't take me very long to realize that once a picture was finished, it should not be improved upon because every time I tried to improve it, I always ruined a perfectly good picture. Our government leaders aren't mature enough to realize what I learned as a young teenager.

They have NO intention of improving anything, their goal is to destroy this Country from within and create some sort of commie country in its place