John Adams: Good Or Evil Or Foolish Founding Fathers?

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No one can believe that there were actually evil and selfish founding fathers. John Adams is considered the Darth Vader of his time because of his thirst for power. George Washington actually committed numerous crimes. The other founding fathers did bad things too but these are two main founding fathers that everyone knows. Instead of helping the people the founding fathers actually helped themselves.
John Adams was a bad guy. He is actually like a conqueror. ATI states, "Adams had a thirst for power." Most good guys don’t look to gain power. "This made him a supervillain of his time," states ATI. They have good reason to say this. John Adams was definitely not good and neither were the others.
George Washington was also kind of evil and

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