Quit talking like you speak for the founding fathers: Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are the worst offenders,

http://samuel-warde.com/2013/07/americans-and-sarah-palin-please-stop-pretending-you-can-speak-for-the-founders-video/

While it’s encouraging to know that Americans haven’t given up on our founder’s Great Experiment – 85% of Americans are either “very” or “extremely proud” of their country of citizenship – 71% of us feel the founders would be disappointed in the way it has turned out. Conservatives and Southerners are both more likely to be proud and more likely to feel the founders would be disappointed.

Older Americans, those living in the Midwest, conservatives, and Republicans are relatively less likely to say the signers would be pleased than their counterparts. Conservatives and Republicans also were less likely to say the signers would have been pleased in 2001 — when George W. Bush was president — but the partisan and ideological differences are larger today. This indicates that Republicans’ and conservatives’ growing disenchantment with a Democratic president could be one of the underlying factors in the decline in the percentage of Americans who say the signers would be pleased.

As the nation rounds its 236th corner, I can only guess that the Founders might be proud that their new form of democracy has survived, relatively intact. Social needs have dramatically changed since the founding of the country and perhaps it’s time to quit caring what our Founding Fathers would think of us.