It's Friday, July 5th, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the gist I Mike Peskin, having just celebrated the 4th of July, the birth of our country.

My mind rests on the 1780s. So during the

1780s a war was fought, a war was won. 20, 70,000 people were not

exactly sure given dysentery and prisoners of war, but a lot of American

Patriots died in furtherance of this war, and then we had a country.

And this is what we'll be talking about today. The Patriots, the founding fathers, the

nation's sense of democracy. But you know what no one ever talks about? We got a guy running

president now. He's always talking about what no one ever talks about. This one no one ever talks about.

No one ever talks about the Articles of Confederation. They were ratified in February of 1781

and they went into, they ruled the country or at least you know during the war it was

mostly whatever general Washington wanted to do but they were the superseding

document organizing these states that would soon be united in effect until

1789. So for almost all of the 1780s this was the aspirational and then the

literal law of the land and they sucked. They didn't work.

So tens of thousands of people were dead. We had a bunch of colonists who had a new idea, hey

let's go with the democracy. This was the democracy they founded and it was bad. It was

ill-conceived, conceived in liberty, but ill-conceived under the Articles of Confederation.

If you are a scholar and you could pick any

decade of American history, the 1780s make you an unpopular scholar. You could

write about the founding fathers and who they were and their biographies.

You could write about them when they became presidents and of course all of the debate during

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