I think it is absolutely true that the founding fathers did not believe sari. They institutionalized slavery in the constitution, and they didn't trust democracy whole scale. I think that a number of people may well have believed that slavery would take care of itself in the fulness of timet. The slave trade was to be abolished within 20 years of the foundation of the united states. That, of course, did not prove to be anything like true.
This conversation takes a deep dive into disruptions. How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces espousing ideas that once flourished only on the outskirts of society. Not all radical groups are the same, and all the groups that the book explores take advantage of challenges that have already shaken the social order. They take advantage of mistakes that have challenged belief in the competence of existing institutions to be effective. It is the particular combination of an alternative ideological system and a period of community distress that are necessary conditions for radical changes in direction. As Disruption demonstrates, not all radical change follows paths that its original proponents might have predicted.