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[quote name="blackwater"]AKA the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense">Chewbacca defense</a>. If you can't win the argument, then try to change the topic. Nobody in this thread is falling for it. More than any other person, George Washington is responsible for the fact that there even is a United States in the first place, and for a lot of our democratic traditions. He easily could have ruled as a Napolean-style dictator or just been president for life if he had wanted to, but he took a different path. Yes, he is a symbol, but symbols are important. Gay marriage is mostly a symbolic thing anyway, and I don't remember most people here claiming that was unimportant. You wouldn't argue that KKK symbols are harmless either. So stop trying to have your cake and eat it too. Also, a slight tweak to the gigantic bureaucratic turd pile that is Dodd-Frank? Really? That's your burning issue that we should all be focusing on? Nobody cares except finance nerds and the offenderati who hate everything to do with banks reflexively.[/quote]