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The Real Problem Is: We are Losing
Anyone on the right can look back at the last 50 years and see the long string of losses to the left. They have set the agenda and they have set the direction. A Republican made nice with China and took us off the gold standard. While Reagan won the Cold War and cut taxes, everything else on the domestic front went the Left’s way. Bush and Clinton both raised taxes. Deficit spending has been the way of the nation in almost every year I have been alive. We no longer need any sort of war to spend and spend. Each President of the last generation more than doubled the previous president’s debt.
The Left controls all the big companies, all the universities, and thanks to the administrative state, they write all the new rules that are effectively laws. From Sea to Shining Sea, the Left has moved from victory to victory, and the Right goes from defeat to defeat. I will admit we have made progress on guns, but that looks to be a lot less safe a win for the Right, than say Obamacare was for the Left.
Who do I blame? Conservatism, Inc. for signing on to the Globalism vision. We are now dependent on China, an avowed enemy, for too many vital goods and services. We have gone from a nation of manufacturing to a nation of service employees. We are losing the Republic and we are losing against China, which will soon eclipse us in every way possible. I expect my children will be my age in a world dominated by China.
Of course the people at Conservatism, Inc. will long be dead.
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But I still think we need to stop that.
OK.
And Hamilton was not for the sort of central government we have today that I can tell.
I don’t think the 50s-60s-70s Democrats are the ones that planted the seeds.
The great society was enough. They start central planning and social engineering, and the whole thing feeds back on itself. Then people vote for more because everything’s going downhill.
You know, I wasn’t self-aware for most of the 50s, but I remember Democrats from the 60s and 70s, and it seems to me that fundamentally Democrats have always been the big spenders (of others’ money). I listened to a debate yesterday between Bill Kristol (unknown political affiliation, but still neo-con) and Scott Horton (anti-war libertarian) and I got the impression that this debate (minus the Monday-morning criticisms of Korea and Viet Nam and the historical references to post-9/11 wars, respectively) looked like it could have been argued in the mid-sixties: Nationalist warhawk Republican versus 60s peacenik Democrat. Certainly the language and framing of the political conflict between these two views has changed (CRT and western demolition, etc.) but it seems to me that they are the exact same mind-sets.
I believe he was the guy behind the Whiskey Rebellion and its brutal put down, too.
The 60s peaceniks were part of the COUNTER-culture, not the Culture.
Democrat presidents have started/begun our involvement in just as many wars as Republicans, if not more.
Well, they were called the counter culture, but their roots intellectual and otherwise, I think, went much further back. But still, the arguments then are the exact same arguments today.
But all the Founding Fathers are played by minorities, including Jefferson. The only white role in the whole cast is King George.
Yeah but Congress ran the deficits not the executive branch. The only time in my lifetime where deficits decreased was the Gingrich congress.
Let me know when fine distinctions make a difference in cultural perception.
One of these days! ;) Well we are getting closer to it day by day. That is undeniable.
I am not going to trash Hamilton, the man or the play. I am not even sure what your point is here, other than the left distorts history.
Denigration of white culture was ultimately my point.
Hamilton the musical is a twofer – it is a cultural phenomenon where the founders are portrayed as black men. It mitigates the contributions of Anglo-Saxon Americans and promotes black culture. The promotion of black culture isn’t bad. And I would mind the color swap if it weren’t part of the larger trend.
The other half is the use of an already existent culture of white people bad, black people saints to promote a complex argument in terms of good vs bad. Jefferson is currently having his reputation destroyed in the culture while Hamilton’s is being promoted. The low information voters will respond to complex discussions along the lines of personality and celebrity. Hamilton was a central government guy. I hear he was pretty cool. Yeah, did you see Hamilton? Yeah. That guy is awesome. Jefferson was for less central government. Wasn’t he a slave owner? Yeah. How racist is that? The guy was evil. I even heard he raped his slaves.
Conclusion : big federal government is good. State government is bad.
We are on the verge of One World Government, the UN’s 2030 agenda is already being not only espoused but implemented. For the first time in human history is is possible to shutter someone’s right to buy and sell, through cancelling bank accounts and credit cards, but also through soft-mandating of firings over WrongThink and now inoculation status. And the One World Religion is the only thing left to show itself.
Jesus’ first warning of the end times was, Don’t be deceived. People have been “saying that” for the past two hundred years but only now is the world in a position in which it is literally able to come true, is literally coming true, and people are stating and writing about their intention to do it.
Wait until I get NEA funding for my Roots musical, where all the slaves are white…
Or if you’re going to have black slaves, set it in Africa, where the masters were black too. And/or muslim