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To colonial Americans, termination was as normal as the ABCs and 123s.
Colonial Americans had neither the luxury nor leisure of bourgeois moral crusades. Their wives summarily beheaded and dressed chickens as a matter of course. There were few to none vegetarians, which would have been seen as twee. Abolitionists were even hard to find.
Ben Franklin and the founding fathers mixed this salt of the earth grounding with living in an era where reason was revered.
Like Thomas Jefferson cutting out parts of the Bible he didn’t like, many pearl-clutching Americans would like to keep the guns but ditch the abortion, and cancel old Ben. Such a troublemaker.
And we won’t even go into his adventures in France.
Let’s face it, having perfectly captured the Age of Reason zeitgeist, he would have been a Steve Jobs archetype. He would have dropped acid “for science,” would have been all over many modern technological amenities, but he wouldn’t have been too enthused with the excesses of cancel culture and the tomfoolery of identity politics.
And he would have been a common sense, moderate independent. Probably would be a self-help guru and a regular on Ted Talks.
