Read this Alexander Hamilton quote. Then read it again. The founders KNEW what was coming.

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16. He grew up in a slave society. Had his inheritance stolen by his mother's former husband.

Because she had the temerity to leave, his mother's husband sought to destroy her sons after her death. He saw his mother fight to support herself and her children in a world where a woman on her own was often legally presumed to be a whore. He saw unchecked power destroy so many people. Almost everyone in his childhood world was exhausted, between heat, malaria and the relentless paranoia of a slave society.

Why is it surprising he foresaw how an unscrupulous individual and a society that fails to pay attention would cause devastation? He'd seen it daily for his first 17 (or 19) years.

When abuse survivors mention that something looks wrong, this is why we believe them. They've seen the patterns.