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?

  • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    10 months 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.

    • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months 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)