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# Our Fathers knew best
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/our-fathers-knew-best-editor/
- Published: 2007-11-01T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T03:45:15.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Flo Ginsburg Santa Monica*

It is dawning on me that our Founding Fathers’ experiment in democracy may be on the brink of extinction, as power and greed pre-empt our Constitution, and with it our democracy.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 1, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/110107.pdf?ref=smdp.com)