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Is there another nation's equivalent to "What would the Founding Fathers think" or is that just a purely American thing? (hexbear.net)

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Does any nation on earth sincerely ask itself what some guy from 250 years ago would think about said country's modern state or is that only a thing that Americans do? Is there any other equivalent?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like Germany does have a little bit of veneration of like... Bismarck or something, at least politically. Nowhere near the deification of Washington though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Never came across any veneration of Bismarck. It may be a conservative thing.

It’s probably similar to Republicans worshipping Reagan. (Although Bismarck actually achieved stuff while Reagan just lived at the same time as Gorbatschow)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm mostly spitballing here, no worries