bumper sticker seen this morning on Rt 128 outside Boston

[jackster]

pictures each of Adams, Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin

underneath the words

Founding Fathers
Right-wing Extremists

:crazy:

I almost drove off the road!

What exactly is the point here? That the founding fathers would be right wing extremists today? That rabble rousing bunch? How anyone can make that jump is beyond me, but maybe I'm just not getting the point here.

Can anyone enlighten me?

[leftofthedial]

1. with perhaps three or four exceptions

the ENTIRE political population of the United States is now far to the right of any of the actual founding fathers.

[poverlay]

2. That's so wrong it's laughable. Maybe today is opposite day... The right-wing

extremists of that day wanted to kill them for not being patriotic and supporting the King...,, old what's his name.

what a Dee de deeee...

[Ganja Ninja]

3. You got it right.

If it makes no sense it must be right, right wing that is.

[meegbear]

4. It'a right-wing thing ...

they think that if they were here today, they would be conservative or *GASP*, libertarian.

[Selatius]

5. Jefferson was an Anti-Federalist

That doesn't necessarily mean he or they would be Republicans today. The only passing resemblance with Anti-Federalists is the idea of the federal government leaving individual states to tackle problems instead of doing it from the federal government. Jefferson's fear was of centralization of authority, and that's not a far-rightwing idea. One would only need to examine the presidency of George W. Bush to prove the efficacy of the idea that extremely heavy concentrations of decision-making power can create a tremendously powerful tool of oppression in the hands of the wrong people. Decentralization was meant to break up the tool so that nobody wielding a hammer would do as much damage as a person wielding a bulldozer.

[Turbineguy]

6. That makes about as much sense as

"Jesus was a Methodist" (or take your pick).