Does any nation on earth sincerely ask itself what some guy from 250 years ago would think about said country’s modern state or is that only a thing that Americans do? Is there any other equivalent?

  • hessenjunge
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    1 year ago

    Never heard anything like it anywhere else. Modern Germany is just 74 years old, so the founders didn’t live in a completely different world. Still there is no similar reverence.

    The constitution, even when it was not considered a constitution for reasons, is revered similarly to the US one though.

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      1 year ago

      I feel like Germany does have a little bit of veneration of like… Bismarck or something, at least politically. Nowhere near the deification of Washington though.

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        1 year ago

        Never came across any veneration of Bismarck. It may be a conservative thing.

        It’s probably similar to Republicans worshipping Reagan. (Although Bismarck actually achieved stuff while Reagan just lived at the same time as Gorbatschow)