Posted on 04/15/2016 4:31:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
It was a different, brutal era for both sides. But compared to white civilization, Indians were primitive, backward and cruel.
Get this in your pea sized brain head: The author of the article is Geoffrey Norman.
The publisher of the article is The Weekly Standard
I wonder why you would take that position. The Indian tribes involved in the "Trail of Tears" did not live in wigwams; they lived in houses made of wood.
Part of the tragedy is that these Indian tribes were part of the five Indian tribes the founders recognized as “civilized”.
Say what you will about Andy but the man knew how to throw a party.
Your nic is one I recognize and make a point to read what you post.
Thank you.
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Who taught the Indians to build those wood houses? The subsistence-level Indians sure weren’t living in sophisticated wood houses before whites got here.
Brutish as Jackson was, the Cherokees on the trail brought their own black slaves with them. Meanwhile, the Comanches out west were slicing and dicing (literally) their enemies.
(JQ Adams) had plans for, among other projects, a national university and saw government as the duty and calling of educated and enlightened men. He despised the kind of partisan politics that had come into being around the figure of Jackson, who would be running again in 1828.
So JQA was then what is killing the nation now: an elitist who believed the “educated and enlightened” should make government a career. Something of a dichotomy when placed with the second observation that he despised partisan politics.
***Even in his dying years Jackson was convinced that the British were plotting to get a foothold in the free state of Texas and wrote of the need to “take and lock the door against all danger of foreign influence.” ***
There may be something to this. Great Britain recognized the new nation of TEXAS with the Rio Grande as it’s western and southern border, then proposed an alliance between Britain, Canada, Mexico and Texas against the USA over the OREGON question.
This so horrified the Texans that they immediately called to join the USA as a state. This was done, and the US Army took up positions to protect the new “southern” border when Mexico started bombarding the then unnamed fort. The first US soldier killed there got the fort named after him. Fort Brown or Brownsville Tex.
If the similarities exist between Jackson’s populism and Trump’s debacle...the article cites Jackson’s stances as some of the first foreshadows of the eventual Civil War 30 years later. So I’m extrapolating.
And as somebody who thinks that another civil war is pretty much our destiny anyhow, I was stating that my takeaway from the article is that when we are at the populist candidate debacle stage, and given that history may not repeat but it definitely rhymes, apparently we are about 25-30 years away from CW2.
for later
First of all I am not a plural. I am a clueless moron, not a clueless morons. Now, it would be correct to say, “I am tired of clueless moons, like you...”
You obviously didn’t see my follow up. Probably because I responded to myself but here it is...
“Nothing against you. Was a great read. Just questioning the title, the periodical and their agenda.”
Their should have probably been its. You shouldn’t drink so much coffee.
Also, both were war heroes, and personally courageous men who knew what it was like to shed both their own blood, and those of our enemies. Trump's own wartime experience comparable to the Battle of New Orleans is so widely known that there's really nothing to be served by bringing it up yet again.
Yup, just two peas in a pod.
“You nincomboob I don’t write this article and get this: YOU DO NOT TELL ME WHAT I CAN POST!!!”
He didn’t. Maybe you should try decaf next time.
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