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4 days agoI like to think they would. Not because they were anti capitalist but because the wealthy have become their own kind of nolble class and the founding fathers hated the nobility. They were capitalists that designed a system that was intended to give the greatest number of people an even opertunity to pursue capital. They didn’t consider the idea of economic capture of government. I can’t blame them. It’s a pretty modern idea. alien idea for their time. Even if they had, it’s late stage capitalism. It doesn’t play by the rules. Also, respect for Thomas Paine.
They’ve been doing it since reconstruction. I read the opinion once that labor never got true power in America because they kept excluding blacks for a long time. I think about that a lot. Hating a black guy was more important to many labor movements than class solidarity.