The founding fathers were radical liberal progressives of their day . You take the quotes out of context to suite you idiocracy. Conservatives in 1776 opposed independence and were Tories and Loyalists. As Mark Twain said “Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals” “The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.” Just remember there are just as many or more of us out here with an opposing view and were just keeping quiet for now because we're still in the drivers seat.