[behnamoh]

> Jefferson and his contemporaries led a revolution against a country which abolished slavery more quickly than America did, and several of his contemporaries were literally slaveholding bigots.

IMO this is unfair description of the US's fight for freedom from the tyranny of a country that was an ocean away and still meddled in literally every country's affairs.

[dragonsky67]

I don't know if this was intentional, but I've never heard a better description of the current state of US foreign affairs.