From his Farewell Address:

"the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it."

"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another"

+1776

The founding fathers, including Washington, were profoundingly intellectual, whom understood human nature.

We can learn from their words, as we can learn from history.

The vitriol that some people have towards them is missplaced and self destructive.

Based curly hair men.

We can learn from history, so we don't repeat history.

dave chappelle was one of the biggest race hustlers in the early 2000s,
I do think he was funny and comedy should have no boundries,
but lets not pretend George Carlin and Dave Chappelle thought anything more of you and I than an animal.

They're in the big club that you and I are not members of, they love to flaunt it in our face.

I'm pretty convinced that growing up and living in their era encouraged and different type of think that made them more wise than people these days. Most people these days are smarter than aristocrats back in the day, but the type of think is much more narrow.

The average revolution-era aristocrat was of average intelligence. Thomas Paine and Jefferson and Washington were not average.

The smartest people in any era, in any country, are smarter than the average person in any era or country.

Human intelligence has not changed at all in the past 300, 3000, or even 30,000 years. The average person in republican Rome was as intelligent as the average person today, and their geniuses were as intelligent as our geniuses. Intelligence is not your ability to regurgitate era-appropriate facts. Knowing that gravity exists doesn't make you Newton's intellectual equal.

You are using the word intelligence, which is a different word than 'smart'. Intelligence is your ability to use existing knowledge you have to differing abilities, whereas smart is being knowledgeable. Note I used smart, and also used wisdom in terms of the type of think brought out by education in those days as even those who are equivalently intelligent these days are way more hyper focused in their fields and usually aren't political leaders these days.