“Disillusioned Revolutionaries: Many Founders Died in Despair About the American Experiment

“America’s Founders helped create a world they were not yet ready to live in.

“Matt Welch | From the July 2026 issue”

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Welsh is not only greatly mistaken, he’s in the dark about what happened when the Founders wrote The Declaration of Independence and The American Constitution thus creating the conditions that caused America.

America was founded in such a way as to allow Capitalism to develop. The Founders and matt Welsh miss the point about the individuals who existed as of the Founding of America. Men. Man.. Mankind.. Men and Women. they also missed the idea that there is no such entity as “Society”. There are only individuals.

For a much better article to understand just what the Founding unleashed read Ayn Rand’s 1967 lecture/ article: “What Is Capitalism?”   HERE. Her 1967 lecture is Ayn Rand’s flagship talk on capitalism. In it she explains in depth what capitalism is, why it is often misunderstood and why it is the only social system consonant with man’s nature. She discusses the moral roots of capitalism in contrast to the moral doctrines that lead to rule by force, which underlie all tyrannies throughout history. This talk is excerpted from Rand’s substantially longer and more comprehensive essay of the same name. Students interested in mastering Rand’s views on capitalism are encouraged to study the full essay, available here  Capitalism is generally a mis-understood idea or concept

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