Party of Political Purity wields big pink eraser on history …
The Connecticut Democratic Party quietly voted Wednesday night to remove references to iconic former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from the name of its annual fundraising dinner due to their links to slavery and the mistreatment of Native Americans.
“Let’s work together to show the rest of the state exactly what it means to be a Connecticut Democrat,’’ said freshman party Chairman Nick Balletto, according to the Hartford Courant, before introducing the resolution to rename the Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey Dinner.
The resolution was unanimously approved; “Bailey,” which remains for now, honors the late Democratic National Committee Chairman John Bailey.
“I see it as the right thing to do,” Balletto later told Hearst Connecticut Media. “I wasn’t looking to be a trailblazer or set off a trend that’s going to affect the rest of the country. Hopefully, they’ll follow suit when they see it’s the right thing to do.” […]
Connecticut Democrats said Jefferson’s ownership of slaves and Jackson’s role in the Trail of Tears — the forced relocation of Native Americans — played a principal role in their decision to vote in favor of the name change.
The local chapter of the NAACP applauded lawmakers “in making the symbolic first step and striving to right the wrongs of the past.”
“You can’t change history, but you don’t have to honor it,” Balletto is quoted as saying.
I could go on to discuss that it is foolish to judge the past by the feelings of the present. Or that all men are flawed, even those whose heroic actions actually advance human civilization. I could posit that our moral stature is analogous to a bank account where good acts and behavior are deposits and bad behavior is withdrawals and no human being can ever hope to do more than work hard to keep that account in the black …
But why bother? Left-liberal Democrats don’t give a flying fig. They have no use for the Founders principles and revolutionary thought and any excuse to Bowdlerize them from a history they already condemn for its cisgender, heteronormative, dead-white-male, colonialist, imperialist, racist Patriarchy, is fine with them.
200 years of Liberty was an aberration the Democrats want make a dim and shameful memory.
And we are letting them.
Wanna bet they rename it the Obama-Bailey dinner?
“Let’s work together to show the rest of the state exactly what it means to be a Connecticut Democrat,’’ said freshman party Chairman Nick Balletto
Yes indeed Nick, I heartily applaud your conceit. Though I might caution that you’ve done this already, in a sense by which you may rue as in the category “Be careful what you wish for: you just might get it.”
So, Connecticut Democrats can be seen as mendacious, scurrilous pigs who would sell their mothers and fathers for the sake of a temporary portion of fleeting power.
If all the Europeans, Africans, and Asians were too busy beating the crap out of each other to bother building long range ships and the Indians were free to develop at their own pace, what would have happened?
For one thing, I think those blood thirsty central American Indians probably would have attempted to massacre all the North American Indians. At least until they were turned back back by bitterly cold winters.
Coupla OT items for all y’all’s consideration
1)Matthew Continetti explains the Trump phenomenon
2) The nothing to see here don’t worry all will be well you can trust us crowd is, as per usual. completely full of shit
Read the former. The latter isn’t anything you didn’t already know anyways.
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Me, I’m betting that, wherever Jefferson and Jackson currently are, they will be relieved both individually and in tandem.
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If I may add my two cents about Mr. Trump.
I grew up in the Bronx of the ’50s and ’60s in a small neighborhood in which those of Jewish heritage and those of my own Irish heritage were the two large demographics. One of interesting sociological bits centered on the “tomorrows paper today” phenomenon. The local tabloids would put out an issue that would arrive locally around 8 or 9 pm. It was particularly useful is figuring out the day’s “Number” (illegal lottery) via the horse racing results and some non-calculator aided calculations.
In expectation, of the arrival of this sociologically critical information, some of the neighborhood’s more interesting grown men would gather at the local “candy store” which despite its name also sold newspapers. Invariably, this human convergence would result in a kind of test of wits, primarily of the Jewish sort but rarely totally sectarian, where individuals would say something outrageous or say something outrageously and then, when subsequently challenged, attempt to defend the utterance. Results usually were found to be humorous, especially by youngsters who should have been elsewhere doing otherwise.
So, when Mr. Trump says something about, say, a war hero, not being a war hero, I hear that as a fecetious statement used to provoke a conversation humorously but also to make a point. To wit, yes John McClain served his country and suffered for it and then was rewarded for it. But that was going on 50 years ago, and I don’t quite anything heroic lately or during his sinecure in the U.S. Senate.
I think that fits with the more general sense that the radical middle Continetti is talking about rather resents the presumption of politicians like McCain whom seem to believe they have the right to hold elective office until they die.
If the dicontent becomes great enough, the right to die in office is going to take an a whole ‘nother meaning.
Add this to the list of exhibits for Trump: Clinton Stalking Horse.
What, don’t they have some apparatchik somewhere named Barnum?
The ‘Radical Middle’?
Not a good term because these people don’t want to destroy the existing order.
‘Populist Middle’? ‘Pissed-Off Middle’? ‘Exasperated & Enraged Middle’?
I think “radicalized” works. There’s a definite “burn it all down” aspect to the popular response to guys like Perot and Trump.
case in point
the militant middle
As Andrew Breitbart said: “Fuck you. War.”
Another case in point. Or, to paraphrase Lee Marvin
“Look who just got radicalized“
I can’t begin to express my disgust at modern man judging people that lived in a totally different world. The world Jefferson and Jackson loved in was as alien to people today as anything the best sci-fi writer could dream up.
Before continuing I fell compelled to issue a disclaimer. As far as I know my people strayed north, I know of no relatives that lived in the antebellum south, nor any that owned slaves. I personally could never own another human, I believe it would dehumanize us both. I heartily support laws and mores condemning the practice. There, now having said that-
In 1700 AD the reality of legal slavery was as self evident as the practice of legal abortion is now. Even more so, because slavery never had a Rove v Wade, it just always had been.
Maybe I should compare it to war instead, which regardless brings me to my next point; before warfare became efficient prisoners were either killed or enslaved. Redskins of all strips usually killed, but there was slaves among them too. They lost the first civil war, is why the trail of tears. Black slaves were prisoners of war in Africa, and their black masters sold them to mostly whites in the new world, mostly Arabs in Arabia, and mostly blacks in Africa. I trust you see where I’m going…
When Andrew Jackson was a boy and a runner for the minute men, there was no prison system like we have. Just some jails operated by the local authority. They hanged murderes and made bond servants of people that can’t pay their debts.
And of course there have always been and are being sneaked into our country now with a sanctuary wink…sex slaves.
These assholes banning flags, digging up graves, and smashing statues aren’t equal to a hair on Andrew Jacksons ass, the self important sactamonious fucks.
The militant middle is how the elite see the radicalized middle. Hence the obsession with right-wing militias and gun control.
“Clinton Stalking Horse.”
Turning into Cruz’s stalking horse. Yea.
Radicle middle works in the ironical sense like Jeff’s ‘Outlaw’, but it isn’t really correct.
Pissed off is more accurate I think…
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: engaged in warfare or combat : fighting
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: aggressively active (as in a cause) : combative Hence the obsession with right-wing militias and gun control. <
they have a civil war going on. they don't want people to notice.
The world Jefferson and Jackson loved in …
[raised eyebrow]
Well. Andy was a bigamist, and Tom had Sally. . . .
(which, by the way goes to Lee’s point about the dehumanizing affects of slavery)
Wow, putting Trump in the circle with Reagan. Interesting.
Of course Trump is no Reagan. The only similarity, and probably the real reason for people loving the Donald, is both are fearless…especially of the press, but also of the party political machine. And there is where Perot is dissimilar…who may have also been fearless with the press, but Perot didn’t/ couldn’t handle them manfully like then Reagan and now Trump.
I can actually see the Dem base stealthfully throwing Hollary overboard for Trump, and him getting a landslide like Reagan.
Overall I’d rather have Criz though…
I don’t get the raised eyebrow.
Cruz. Crips, I better fire up the PC, this phone ain’t cutting it.
I think Continetti’s point is that the Reagan Democrats are the one’s chasing after populist candidates like Perot & Trump –to the detriment of the Republican Party, which invariably loses when it can’t hold on to the “radical middle.”
That, of course, is the fault of the milquetoast establishment approved losers (Bush, Dole, McCain, Rommey) that the GOP keeps putting up.
so this is why cruz met with trump. so when the donald gets tired of the slog he can throw it to cruz. the donald likes his billionaire freedom. see bloomberg.
I don’t know,I wasn’t too impressed with the Continetti article. Too many false assumptions I think.
Also, radical middle is an oxymoron.
I think it captures the whole a pox upon both your houses vibe rather nicely.
militant middle – fight the bastards!
lee
I was just gently poking at your interesting typo. The one-eyebrow, “yesssss?”
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Ohhh, I didn’t see it til right now.
Stupid phone.