Dec 20, 2025. Tad Stoermer is a public historian, teacher, and author. Here’s the full 6-minutes on YouTube. From the description:
The founders didn't break their own rules. They believed they had no rules to break.
Build a republic on owning people—on the premise that your desires, your convenience, your wealth places you beyond ordinary morality—and this is what you get. The Epstein files aren't new. They're an inheritance.
The first republic was founded in an immoral swamp. Not necessarily because the founders were hypocrites. Hypocrites believe in the standard they violate. These men didn't believe the standard applied to them. They could own people. Abuse them. Sell their own children. And face no scandal—because scandal requires an audience with standing to be scandalized.
We abolished slavery. We didn't abolish that.
In this video, I use a resistance history framework to ask: who holds power, who's pushing back, and what does that tell us about what's actually happening? The answers aren't comfortable. The exemption survived. The belief that power places certain men beyond ordinary human standards. That the rules exist for other people. That exploitation isn't exploitation when the right people do it.
The Epstein files aren't accountability. They're leverage. And too many outside the circle are still racing to get in.
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Sally Hemming is an excellent example of examining actual history. Jefferson did [try to] conceal their relationship and discredit anyone who attempted to reveal it. * sounds familiar
It also used to be acceptable for young girls to be married off to much older men (poor little princesses). Societies feelings on that had evolved. Can we keep it from devolving?
The powerful 'do' think they have the privilege to take whatever they want. That is the only real culture war. The financial crisis of 2008 still has everyday people who suffered negative life altering consequences, but the wealthy who caused it... Bankruptcies? Nope, maybe restructures. Jail time? LOL -->law and order doesn't apply to them. Stronger protections for consumers? Nope.
The Epstien case should be: The People vs. The United States Government
The news cycle is normalizing this BS How much longer are we going to let the 1% control our government[s] at our expense?
In America, maybe we will just quietly die off without healthcare. Too sick and broke to stand up for ourselves.
All around the world, Multi-Billion dollar entities can continue to buy up all the land when farmers can no longer afford to farm.
For all of the failings of our founders, the idea of a government by the people for the people was revolutionary for its time. Were they wrong on that? Do we collectively agree to a hierarchy where a privileged few extract everything, including basic human dignity, for their profit?
France said no in 1879 America in 1776, 1865 Nepal in 2025
Are we going to learn the lessons from history and hold those who weild 'our power 'accountable? Or keep allowing them to do things like create wars that we will pay for, our youth will die in, and they will profit from. Our distraction instead of our "attention to this matter"
Monopolies used to be busted up, bragging about buying elections would have been criminal, Martha Stewart served prison time for less than what Trump and congress members brag about doing.