Republic

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In these increasingly trying times, it's important to remember the giants who went before us who would more than likely be put on multiple government watchlists today as "threats to democracy."

"Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”

To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”

Did he actually say this? Depends on whether you ask a historian, a Redditor, or me. In the very unlikely chance that he didn't say this, then here's your source: I made it up. He probably did though.

Happy Independence Day. I love my country in spite of its many flawed leaders.