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ELI5 to a European why so many Americans value the founding father's opinions and views over anything else? It seems in America, the "founding fathers" opinions are viewed as the sole acceptable opinion by many when there must be many others intelligent enough born after the "founding fathers"

I'm european and I don't understand American fascination with the "founding fathers" views. Surely men born 300 years ago couldn't have written rules about everything in the modern age? Furthemore, the world has changed its views on many things that were seen as correct before. Why the insistence on listening to the "founding fathers" and ignoring every other person's views?
gpt
The founding fathers were some of the best educated thinkers of their generation. They actually wrote the constitution with checks in mind to prevent future authoritarian leadership (such as a monarchy). They also knew the future was going to be different but wanted to assure principle freedoms to all persons. They allowed the constitution to change through amendments and such to adapt. 

And yes, that has happened and there were smarter people - and we've added their ideas to our government as time went by. Social security, welfare, woman's suffrage, emancipation, etc. 

Listening to the founding fathers therefore ends up being 'timeless'. Their ideas are humanistic by nature.