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  373.  @asisin2  Jeffersonian Republicanism was all about liberty and freedom, which was the direct antithesis of Hamiltonian Federalism that was pro-big business, pro-central banking, and pro-big brother centralized government. Take a guess at which one grew close to early socialism first. It wasn't Jefferson's Old Republicans. The problem started early on, especially with central-banking, which both Jefferson and Madison were originally against. However, a deal was made between Madison and Hamilton to allow the first to be established, and we've had a downhill slide ever since. The Federalists lost their party, but they joined up with Madison's faction during the last two years of his presidency. This later became the Whig Party, which was led by Clay, and then the GOP under Lincoln. The Jeffersonians became the Democratic Party. However, after reconstruction, more and more started siding with the federalists, and by the late 1800s, when socialism was brought in by the Christian Socialists in the north, the Bourborn Democrats, which was the group that Wilson came from, became full blown federalists. After that, it was in both parties, and a combination of that with socialism became known as progressivism. The GOP tried to change, and between 1910-12, they booted the progressives out. However, by WWII, they began infiltrating it again, and later, they brought about the New Right and Neoconservatism. That is what is being cleaned out of the GOP, again, now. 45 wanted to bring back Jeffersonian Old Republican belief, which is why he favored Jefferson and Jackson. His ideology was really that of the Jacksonian Old Democrats and the anti-war Old Right.
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  482.  @KopperNeoman  There were two lines of political philosophy with the founders from the day that the Declaration was signed, and they were Jeffersonian Republicanism, which was Aristotelian, and Hamiltonian Federalism, which was Hobbesian. Hamilton wanted a big brother government tied to big business and big banking, which made the states something similar to non-sovereign counties or shires. Of course, this flew in the face of the Constitution. Jefferson's party eventually became the Democratic Party after the split. The federalists, who had lost their party, joined with Madison's lot, where they finally became the Whig Party, and then the GOP under Clay and Lincoln. However, after the reconstruction, and toward the end of the nineteenth century, the Bourbon Democrats arose, which was light federalism, and they were pro-big business and banking. Wilson was from this very lot, and he was playing with socialism as well. "They represented business interests, generally supporting the goals of banking and railroads, but opposed to subsidies for them and were unwilling to protect them from competition." Thus, they were already leaning toward federalism. Jefferson originally believed in a limited compact-type central government, (a pact between the states), state sovereignty, state's rights, no taxes, was anti-central banking, anti-corruption, anti-offensive war, anti-standing army, and pro-liberty, which was exactly opposite of the federalists. However, both he and Madison started siding with the federalists by the last two years of Madison's presidency, which eventually led to the split in the Democratic-Republican Party, where Rep. Randolph of Roanoke led the Old Republicans. He stated this about the original Jeffersonian Republican idea: "Love of peace, hatred of offensive war, jealousy of the state governments toward the general government; a dread of standing armies; a loathing of public debts, taxes, and excises; tenderness for the liberty of the citizen; jealousy, Argus-eyed jealousy of the patronage of the President"
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  488.  @illegalopinions4082  It is bold lies told by the leaders of their cult, much like a priest would lie to their laity, and the laity believe every word of it, because it was spoken or written by their idol. What these people do not understand about their leadership is, that their leaders are greedy and immoral internationalists that look to exploit the entire world and its people. Their cult's leadership feeds them a picture of a utopian Eden to strive for, while behind the scene, the leadership takes control, and becomes more wealthy at the expense of everyone else. That has been the history of socialism and utopianism from its earliest roots, going back to the days of Robert Owen, who Engels and Marx obtained their ideas from, along with those like Machiavelli, de Sade, Rousseau, and Saint-Simon. The power elite class still tries to keep their immorality hidden from the public. Carroll Quigley PhD, who taught history to both Clinton and Pelosi at Georgetown, stated that this very power elite class were who the right mistakenly accused of being communists, or bringing about communist plots. He went on to state that the power elite had no compunction of working with the communists, national socialists, fascists, or any other political group, and that they did so all the time. To them, it's all about international trade, world political power, exploitation, and keeping their profit streams flowing. They would not allow morals to stand in their way, and when one looks at their history, they are completely amoral. Sadly, this cult's sheep have been led and lied to by the likes of Robespierre, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot. All of them were devoid of any morals, and they were dictators looking to become extremely wealthy off the backs of the people, and their friends in the power elite.
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  497.  @randomness4989 Below is the history: "In the first year after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, the schools were left very much to their own devices due to the ongoing civil war of 1917-1923. The People's Commissariat for Education directed its attention solely towards introducing political propaganda into the schools and forbidding religious teaching. In the autumn of 1918 the Uniform Labour School Regulations were issued for the RSFSR. From October 1, 1918, all types of schools came under Commissariat for Education and were designated by the name "Uniform Labour School". They were divided into two levels: the first for children from 8 to 13, and the second for children from 14 to 17. During the 8th Party Congress in March 1919, the creation of the new socialist system of education was said[citation needed] to be the major aim of the Soviet government. After that, Soviet school policy underwent numerous radical changes." "The curriculum was changed radically. Independent subjects, such as reading, writing, arithmetic, the mother tongue, foreign languages, history, geography, literature or science were abolished. Instead, school programmes were subdivided into "complex themes", such as 'the life and labour of the family in village and town' for the first year or 'scientific organisation of labour' for the 7th year of education. This system proved a complete failure, however, and in 1928 a new programme completely abandoned the complex themes and resumed instruction in individual subjects." "Soviet education in the 1930s–1950s was inflexible and suppressive. Research and education, in all subjects[10] but especially in the social sciences, was dominated by Marxist-Leninist ideology and supervised by the CPSU. Such domination led to abolition of whole academic disciplines such as genetics. Some scholars were purged as they were proclaimed bourgeois during that period. Most of the abolished branches of learning were rehabilitated later in Soviet history, in the 1960s–1990s (e.g., genetics in October 1964), although many purged scholars were rehabilitated only in post-Soviet times. In addition, many textbooks - such as history ones - were full of ideology and propaganda, and contained factually inaccurate information (see Soviet historiography). The educational system's ideological pressure continued, but in the 1980s, the government's more open policies influenced changes that made the system more flexible. Shortly before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, schools no longer had to teach subjects from the Marxist-Leninist perspective at all."__Wikipedia on Education in the Soviet Union In the US, FDR did something similar, which was the end of the one-room schoolhouse. Kindergarten, in the US, was established in 1856. "Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852) opened a 'play and activity' institute in 1837, in the village of Bad Blankenburg, in the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Thuringia, as an experimental social experience for children entering school. He renamed his institute Kindergarten (meaning garden of children) on June 28, 1840, reflecting his belief that children should be nurtured and nourished "like plants in a garden". Fröbel introduced an educational environment into his school, in contrast to other earlier infant establishments, and is therefore credited with the creation of kindergartens. Around 1873, Caroline Wiseneder's method for teaching instrumental music to young children was adopted by the national kindergarten movement in Germany."__Wikipedia on Kindergarten "In [Robert] Owen's time some 2,500 people lived at New Lanark, many from the poorhouses of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Although not the grimmest of mills by far, Owen found the conditions unsatisfactory and resolved to improve the workers' lot. He paid particular attention to the needs of the 500 or so children living in the village (one of the tenement blocks is named Nursery Buildings) and working at the mills, and opened the first infants' school in Britain in 1817, although the previous year he had completed the Institute for the Formation of Character."__Wiki on New Lanark "Owen's work at New Lanark continued to have significance in Britain and continental Europe. He was a "pioneer in factory reform, the father of distributive cooperation, and the founder of nursery schools."[6] His schemes for educating his workers included opening an Institute for the Formation of Character at New Lanark in 1818. This and other programmes at New Lanark provided free education from infancy to adulthood."__Wiki on Robert Owen Notice that Owen took them at infancy, while the parents worked the mill. The children were then brought up believing in what was taught as a formation of character. That was really what they did in the Soviet Union until 1928, where it mostly failed, though they still pushed the state first after that.
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  539. I would bet that most everyone that has read her series of books, or watched the movies that came from them, are idealists instead of realists. Idealists are the very people that still grip tightly to religion and cults, which is where radical liberalism formed to start with under the Protestants. They must really lead a hard life over feeling oppressed every day of their lives. In her books, I would argue that Harry was a stiff upper-lip moderate conservative, or more conservative than he let on. The one radical in their group was Hermione, who nobody could really stand to associate with except two of the trio themselves, and here, they felt sorry for her. Hermione obtains a huge dose of reality in the end, but before that, she obtained one with SPEW, even though she tried to deny what the elves tried to explain to her. After all, Harry was seen by them as their great savior, not her. It was Harry that had obtained the loyalty of both Dobby and Kreacher, and that brought the respect of the rest who fought for him at the end with their swinging meat cleavers and butcher knives. All it took was Harry allowing Kreacher to whack Dung on the head with a saucepan, and he became his loyal servant ever since, where he compared Harry to his "poor Master Regulus." It was Harry that was actually good to the elves, and did what they requested when he could. I have read fanfiction about Harry, and what the leftists tried to create from him was awful and totally out of character. The left really does live in a idealist's dream world.
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  785. As far as alcohol, I quote the Hon. Noah S. Sweat from Mississippi: "My friends, I had not intended to discuss this controversial subject at this particular time. However, I want you to know that I do not shun controversy. On the contrary, I will take a stand on any issue at any time, regardless of how fraught with controversy it might be. You have asked me how I feel about whiskey. All right, this is how I feel about whiskey: "If when you say whiskey you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it. "But, if when you say whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman's step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a little while, life's great tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it. "This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise."
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  790. MSNBC's article proves one thing: the left wing is running scared. Their big problem is, that they have overplayed their "right-wing extremists" card, just as they have their race and gender cards. Now, nobody in their right mind believes them. The author of the article: "Cynthia Miller-Idriss is a sociologist and professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education, and runs the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL)." Another left-wing intellectual extremist. See below: "Miller-Idriss writes frequently for mainstream audiences. She is an opinion columnist at MSNBC, and has additional recent by-lines in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, CNN, The Hill, Politico, The Guardian, Le Monde, Salon, and more. She appears regularly in the media as an expert source and political commentator, including regular appearances on Fareed Zakaria GPS as well as other CNN news programs, PBS News Hour, NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, MSNBC's Meet the Press Daily with Chuck Todd and Hardball with Chris Matthews, NBC's Evening News with Lester Holt and The Today Show, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, ABC's Good Morning America, and in global news outlets in over a dozen countries, including BBC News, Deutsche Welle, France 24, al Jazeera and more. "Dr. Miller-Idriss’ research has been funded by grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.K. Cabinet, the Lumina Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.) and the Goethe Institute, among others. From 2009-2012 she was a nominated fellow in the Teagle Foundation’s National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education. She has received several research and teaching awards, including the 2019 DC Sociological Society's Morris Rosenberg Award and a 2013-14 global fellowship from Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies at the Universität zu Köln, Germany. Dr. Miller-Idriss serves on the international advisory board of the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) in Oslo, Norway, and is a member of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)." -- American University faculty article on her. A rather left-wing extremist résumé, I'd say.
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  1033.  @Adolf_Meowtler  "The United States system of units of 1832 is based on the system in use in Britain prior to the introduction to the British imperial system on January 1, 1826. Both systems are derived from English units, a system which had evolved over the millennia before American independence, and which had its roots in both Roman and Anglo-Saxon units. "The customary system was championed by the U.S.-based International Institute for Preserving and Perfecting Weights and Measures in the late 19th century. Some advocates of the customary system saw the French Revolutionary, or metric, system as atheistic. The president of an Ohio auxiliary of the Institute wrote that the traditional units were "a just weight and a just measure, which alone are acceptable to the Lord". His organization later went so far as to publish music for a song proclaiming "down with every 'metric' scheme". "The U.S. government passed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, which made the metric system "the preferred system of weights and measures for U.S. trade and commerce". The legislation states that the federal government has a responsibility to assist industry as it voluntarily converts to the metric system, i.e., metrification. This is most evident in U.S. labeling requirements on food products, where SI units are almost always presented alongside customary units. According to the CIA Factbook, the United States is one of three nations (along with Liberia and Myanmar) that have not adopted the metric system as their official system of weights and measures." [SIC] Wiki article The metric system came about over Robespierre's rule, where they also changed their calendar system. Henri de Saint-Simon was one of those revolutionaries, and he and Pierre Leroux were the ones who coined the term socialism and created the idea of that form of government, which included mandatory (forced) labor for everyone. "At the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, Saint-Simon quickly endorsed the revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the early years of the revolution, Saint-Simon devoted himself to organizing a large industrial structure in order to found a scientific school of improvement. He needed to raise some funds to achieve his objectives, which he did by land speculation. This was only possible in the first few years of the revolution because of the growing instability of the political situation in France, which prevented him from continuing his financial activities and indeed put his life at risk. Saint-Simon and Talleyrand planned to profiteer during the Terror by buying the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, stripping its roof of metal, and selling the metal for scrap. Saint-Simon was imprisoned on suspicion of engaging in counter-revolutionary activities. He was released in 1794 at the end of the Terror." "Saint Simon's conceptual recognition of broad socio-economic contribution, and his Enlightenment valorization of scientific knowledge, soon inspired and influenced utopian socialism, liberal political theorist John Stuart Mill, anarchism through its founder Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who was inspired by Saint-Simon's thought and Marxism with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels identifying Saint-Simon as an inspiration to their ideas and classifying him among the utopian socialists. Saint-Simon's views also influenced 20th-century sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen, including Veblen's creation of institutional economics that has included prominent economists as adherents." [SIC] Wiki article
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  1063.  @drgoremd  From The Guardian: Quote. Andrew Waller, a former British diplomat who worked with Khalil at the UK office for Syria, a diplomatic mission housed inside the British embassy in Beirut, described Khalil as a thoughtful individual and highly valued colleague during his government service. “This is a naked example of the US administration arresting someone for their political opinions, and I think the British government should be exercised about this,” he said. “He is a former British government employee who was vetted and well liked.” Waller added that the British government was entirely dependent on non-British nationals working at embassies worldwide to provide the language skills and local knowledge needed to operate. Khalil worked for years on the British government’s flagship grant programme that brings foreign students to study at UK universities, as well as in a support role for which he helped to inform and shape British foreign policy on Syria through his knowledge and Arabic skills. “The British government relies on people like Mahmoud all over the world,” he said. “Without them the UK could not operate overseas. It could not conduct diplomatic activity without this raft of employees who do this kind of work.” Waller said he was “disappointed” that Khalil’s loyalty to the government he served for years has not been publicly recognised by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office. The Foreign Office declined to comment, saying it did not discuss former employees. “There is an element of loyalty here that is really important: If there is one thing Mahmoud showed while working for the British government, it is loyalty,” said Waller. End Quote.
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  1087.  @Ashtor1337  Do you think that collectivist and centralizationist Nationalism, which is Federalism, isn't targeting Europe, as well as the world at the moment? Do you think that Communism, Socialism, and Progressivism were really separated from that? Do you know about the World Federalist Movement inside the UN? Do you know who the two women were that founded the movement? Hard leftists. I've read the history, as well as studied the anti-Aristotelian, Hamiltonian and Hobbesian nationalist philosophy that led to it all. It's what changed the US completely in 1865, where Marx was writing to his pen pal, Lincoln, as Greeley published Marx's screeds in his New York newspaper. The reconstruction was a brainwashing and occupation campaign used to destroy conservative Aristotelian and Jeffersonian Republicanism, which favored small and sovereign states. The "republicans" of Lincoln weren't made up of Jefferson's people; they were "Unionist" Whigs and Federalists. All Collectivists, and Centralizationists tied to banking and manufacturing. The Civil War was called Lincoln's French Revolution brought to US soil, which was all about expansion and money, and many scholars have called Lincoln a dictator, comparing him to Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, and the list goes on. Trotsky, later on, has much to do with the US side of it, as he was teaching his Marxian philosophy in NYC, at a social science school, before he met up with Lenin. There have been several books and articles published on this very subject, which were authored by several scholars of history in both the US and Europe. This factual history is also being taught in several colleges at this very moment.
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  1178. When in 2012-13 they gutted the Smith-Mundt Act with H.R.5736 - Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, this is the result. Read carefully: Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 - Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the Secretary of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide for the preparation and dissemination of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, including about its people, its history, and the federal government's policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers and instructors. (Under current law such authority is restricted to information disseminated abroad, with a limited domestic exception.) Authorizes the Secretary and the Board to make available in the United States motion pictures, films, video, audio, and other materials prepared for dissemination abroad or disseminated abroad pursuant to such Act, the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, or the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 to prohibit funds for the Department of State or the Board from being used to influence public opinion or propagandizing in the United States. (Under current law such provision applies to the United States Information Agency [USIA].) Applies such prohibition only to programs carried out pursuant to the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, the United States International Broadcasting Act of 1994, the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act, and the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act. States that such provision shall: (1) not prohibit the Department or the Board from providing information about its operations, policies, programs, or program material, or making such information available to members of the media, public, or Congress; (2) not be construed to prohibit the Department from engaging in any medium of information on a presumption that a U.S. domestic audience may be exposed to program material; and (3) apply only to the Department and the Board and to no other federal department or agency.
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  1251.  @poempadgett4664  That was the reason why I mentioned the economy, as the Scramble for Africa and oil exploration was taking place as well, but the war was mainly over what was taking place inside Germany in politics, where socialism was being allowed to advance by Wilhelm, and then, Ebert, which the capitalist nations wanted to stop. That was before Antifa was later formed in 1932, where they actually had both the socialists and national socialists trying to work together at first, until the nationals split, and left Antifa. "It was set up by the then-Stalinist Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during the late history of the Weimar Republic. After the forced dissolution in the wake of Machtergreifung in 1933, the movement went underground." There were several types of socialism in Germany during that time, with the worst of it being led by Rosa Luxenburg and Karl Liebknecht. Ebert was at the head of the milder form of it with the SPD, when the hardliners had their uprising. The SPD goes back to 1913. "In August 1914, Luxemburg, along with Karl Liebknecht, Clara Zetkin, and Franz Mehring, founded the Die Internationale ("The International") group which became the Spartacus League in January 1916." "In response to the uprising, Luxemburg's former student, German Chancellor and SPD leader Friedrich Ebert ordered the Freikorps to suppress the Soviet backed attempt at revolution, which was successfully crushed by 11 January 1919." Ebert didn't seem to like their totalitarian views, but they got them, anyhow, with the NSDAP later on.
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