For your consideration: Reason TV dramatizes attacks between Jefferson and Adams during the 1800 election.
(thanks to dicentra, via Jonah G)
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Past is prologue; it’s no surprise that we do the same things today. Right down to having surrogates “testify” to our opponents weaknesses and incompetence, while the actual pols try and float above the fray.
“That Hamilton character should be shot!”
~~ Aaron Burr
So, they were even nastier in the past? Awesome.
When has politics ever been civil? The only way for that to happen is for one side to cave in. We’ve been caving in to progressives long enough. The establishment GOP talk about “slowing the growth of government,” and that just isn’t good enough. We not only want it stopped, we want it rolled back.
“…Politicians start calling each other’s names…”
Baron! Baron! WORK ME, BARON!
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKK!
and… I’m spent.
“you hatched-faced nutmeg dealer”
Nutmeg was a controlled substance??
#3 – Indeed. Daggers flashing in the Forum Romanum, Greeks exiling each other, Frenchmen cutting heads off, the orginal Grub Street newpapers… we had dueling, Yellow Press and insults like calling your opponent “a direct lineal decendant of the impenitent thief on the Cross” (well, I kind of like that one).
Now we are supposed to get all faint-y if someone as much as opines, “Say that Obama fellow seems to be acting in a rather radical manner”…
Alexander Hamilton’s fucking Maria Reynolds… pass it on.
Tom Jefferson’s fucking Sally Hemmings… pass it on.
Hey Madison! “for god’s sake, my dear Sir, take up your pen, select the most striking heresies, and cut him to peices [sic] in the face of the public”
Yep, the arguments can get heated. Yeah, politics have always been nasty.
A little narrowing in the race between the bald bearded marxist and the cute
witchlady bug.There was a reason people tended to be polite in regular conversation, there was a decent chance you could be called out for it in a duel. Jefferson and Adams were old enough and separated by a enough miles to make that result less likely. But for Burr and Hamilton, they took care of business on the cliffs of Weekawken.
And Andrew Jackson was later involved in several duels over the honor of his wife.
An armed society is a polite society.
I feel so stupid. I didn’t know your name was Jess, J.G.
Shoot. I thought this post was about Al Stewart songs.
As in The Year of the Cattiness?
Meow.
Darth: thanks for proving I’m not the last man alive who still enjoys listening to Al Stewart sometimes. (I love his hits but if the term ‘metrosexual’ had been around in the ’70s, Al could have been its poster child.)
i always thought Al Stewart was a race car driver
vroom vroom!
Ever read any of the speeches during ratification of the COnstitution? Just Henry vs. Randolph in Virgina is an eye opener.