Posted on 02/26/2015 11:13:23 AM PST by C19fan
So we’re in late February, which means it’s the season for local Jefferson-Jackson Days, when local Democratic Parties hold potlucks to raise money and get people pumped for Get Out the Vote drives. It’s also shortly after President’s Day, which is, for me, always a day spent reminiscing about random presidential trivia and tweeting unpopular opinions.
And for once one of those unpopular opinions caught the attention of an editor and now I’m writing about how the “Jackson” in Jefferson-Jackson Day is an abomination. Indeed, I want to grab my fellow Democrats who say stupid, historically ignorant things about how George W. Bush was “the worst President ever” by the lapels and shove them at Andrew Jackson’s Wikipedia entry, rubbing their nose in it until they understand what they did.
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Sounds like the perfect embodiment of the Democrat Party, right down to the current occupant of the White House.
or the Aztecs who practiced bloody human sacrifice on a large scale and slavery...
"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." --Abraham Lincoln
Another screaming, hysterical fool of a liberal. But then, I repeat myself.
Okay, hyperbolic overstatements aside, there is enough reason to object to Jackson being on our money: besides the Trail of Tears deportation, which removed not savages who threatened war on civilized folks, but precisely the tribes that had earned the name “The Five Civilized Tribes” because they had adapted so well to European ways, his banking policy was a model of corruption and cronyism.
Replace him with Reagan.
If I want real historical grievances against my country, the Trail of Tears ranks number one, followed by our behaviy or in the Philippines after the Spanish American War, and the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II. Our misfortune at having been colonized and then founded as a nation a little before Christendom decided slavery was evil and went about stamping it out everywhere possible doesn’t even rank. (And, I can come up with a few more things I find more blameworthy than that misfortune, but they were done by proxies, not Americans directly.)
The only irony that I find is Jackson absolutely hated and despised fiat paper currency.
The Confederacy, pure and evil. The south wanted a war, Lincoln gave them one. Just like the Japanese wanted a war the United States gave them one.
Rather an odd thing to say considering he thought that the states did not have a right to peacefully secede from that government.
He preferred that there be a violent revolution than that a disgruntled state should peacefully exit the union.
Even on Free Republic, sometimes it can take awhile to find someone with a clue.
+1 to you sir.
Arthur Chu is a foolish leftist who doesn’t even understand the ugly leftist philosophy that he champions.
Ask any leftist idiot whether or not they are in favor of “land reform” and 95% of them will say “of course I am”.
The Indian massacres and mass expulsions are the absolutely perfect embodiment of leftist “land reform” fantasies.
The Indians were wealthy land-owners. Their wealth was forcibly redistributed to “the people”. According to leftist dogma, “they had it coming”. Joe Biden is out there proclaiming the same basic idea.
So, in fact, Andrew Jackson should unquestionably be celebrated by them as a leftist icon with a stature equal to Marx, Lenin and Stalin for his actions in furthering their redistributionist wet dreams.
Let’s talk about the air traffic controllers.
Their strike was illegal and they knew it. Reagan gave them a deadline to go back to work or be fired. They ignored that deadline called what they believed to be Reagan’s bluff and lost.
They deserved to be fired.
Let’s talk about the Libyan bombing.
Libya’s Gaddafi had been sponsoring terror organizations and attacks throughout the world and was developing nuclear weapons.
Then Gaddafi attacked a US Navel exercise in the Gulf of Sidra firing missiles and attacking with Corvettes and Mig 23s
After the attack on Libya Gaddafi went quite for about a decade. So I believe Reagan’s actions proved effective.
The south wanted to go its own way. Lincoln gave them war. The way of tyrants, big government and Obama. As you might recall, 13 colonies wanted to go their own way. By your reasoning, England was swell because they gave them war. Lincoln was a tyrant. No wonder he is so worshipped in D.C. He even has his own temple there.
Nor was I until, delving into the FED, 1913 jeykyll island,
and a lot else. As to how he “broke the bank”. In that sense, as all national banks we’ve had are “private” banks, he “broke” them by removing assets. Can’t do that now, unless you have a Treasurer who’s malleable (maybe Lew is, but he ain’t inclined). I like the idea of a full audit of the Fed, but good luck with that. They click and give billions of US money supply to foreign banks... and NOT for reasons of US national interests whatsoever. It’s Hamilton vs. Jefferson fast forward past JP Morgan, Warburg, and all the rest to what is arguably the dream of extra sovereign interests— they have become the government. Deo Vindice.
Civilize them with a Krag.
But he was a revolutionary war veteran. The last one to be elected president.
BS. If you want to point fingers take a gander in the direction of jeff davis.
The south started the war. Jefferson Davis ordered Confederate forces in Charleston SC to fire on a Federal installation. The only reason the south wanted to go its own way was so they could keep 3,000,000 people as chattel property, like their horses or mules. Jefferson Davis is enshrined on Monument Avenue in Richmond. Along with Lee, Jackson and others. The only man whose statue stands on Monument Avenue that has a winning record is Arthur Ashe.
There was precious little “peaceful” in the way the slavocracy attempted to exit the union. If one chooses to “exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow” one should expect others to resist it.
Then you must really hate the guys on the $1 and the $2.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
The South did just about everything they could to avoid war including allowing a Federal Fort to control the entrance to their main port.
Lincoln made a call for 75,000 volunteers with no other possible reason than to invade the South. He also sent a ship to resupply Fort Sumter. The South had told him they would not attack it but they could not leave Fort Sumter in control of Charleston Harbor. If he resupplied the fort they had no choice.
The South at first refused to invade the North tho it might have won the war after Bull Run. They simply wanted to be left alone.
The North invaded the South. It is as simple as that.
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