Mooh...

not just Thomas Jefferson, but all the rest of the founding fathers who understood that they needed to work together - and yes, make compromises. One such compromise was to avoid the issue of slavery, hoping that time would come up with a natural solution.

America came into being in what has been called the Age of Enlightenment. We have now entered the Age of Delusion and Willful Ignorance. And there are those bound & determined to destroy democracy & meritocracy & replace it with their own form of "aristocracy", ie. the 1%ers.