Posted on 05/16/2010 6:53:47 AM PDT by radioone
A Salon writer wonders, "What's the conservative fetish with the Founding Fathers?"
It's because we read history, my sadly ignorant friend. So did the Founders.
History is full of Obamas, and the people who idolized such power-hungry self-glorifying narcissists. The Founders understood human history in their very bones, because they read history from the Bible to the Roman Empire, Europe's bloody and tyrannical history, and the Americas. If you want to understand Obama, just look at any idolized hero in Latin America: Chavez, Fidel, Bolivar, Juan Peron. Look at European monarchs. Look at Napoleon.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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I’m pinging this for a later read.
John Taylor Gatto in Weapons of Mass Instruction, indicated that the Civil War had very little to do with Emancipation but installing the German way of schooling. Was/is he exaggerating?
Progressive Fascists, like this Salon author, hate the US Constitution because it is the largest single obstacle to their desire to impose their emotion based political dogmas on the people.
Great article. Thanks for the ping.
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Yes, that idea is complete nonsense.
Progressives LOVE the founders - Marx, Engles, Lenin.....
Total BS.
Slavery was the driving issue for the leaders of the Southern Secessionist movement.
It was not the only issue but it was the key issue in the US Civil War.
Without the divisive issue of slavery dividing the politics north and south all the other issues would of been resolved via political consensus and comprise. Only the issue of Slavery was the “irreconcilable issue” that dived North and South
I believe that it was more the idea that Yankee Carpetbaggers could not come down South and force their morals/beliefs on Southerners. Yes, it was partly because of slavery, but most Southerners just didn’t like Yankees telling them what to do. Needless to say, it got worse after the war with reconstruction. And, it never really ends, the Yankees just love to tell their idiot Redneck Southerners(/s) how to live (for an example, see forced busing.)
The fight really boiled down to economic control of the country. The south had the albatross around its neck and the north had a vested interest in forcing the issue. Everywhere else the “peculiar institution” had been phased out without a fight and with previous slave owners being compensated for giving up their investments.
The creep of a stronger centralized government has been steady since the ratification of the Constitution. What we are seeing today, I believe, is just another step toward the “perfect” (/s) centralized government. The irony to me is that one slave system has been traded for another.
the responsibilities as well. That's another reason why the liberals don't like it.
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Economics are not what motivated Abraham Lincoln to get back into politics in the 1850. Economics were not what motivated men to butcher each other in “bleeding Kansas”, Economics was not the motivation for men like Edward Ruffin, Jefferson David and Alexander Stephens. Economics did not lead John Brown to raid Harpers Ferry.
Only slavery had the force to move men to violence in the antebellum period. Remove that and you the US Civil War does not happen.
We institute government, the Declaration says, to secure our unalienable rights.
But the power government may need to do that must be derived from our consent.
Government is thus twice limited; by its end and by its means which require our consent.
Everything the Left stands for and implements fails the test.
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