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No matter how it was sugar coated, Fenton just admitted that the Hollywood producers sold out the US to China, for profit, and that they now push CCP propaganda upon the US public. In the end, it was, as always, about money, which was the same thing that we found within the academe. We now have the China Initiative at the DOJ, but we should also have a Hollywood Initiative, too. I think that we will find the same thing with almost all media, as we did with several mainstream news sources.
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About Jackson detesting paper currency, he had every right to. Before the US was formed, there was paper colonial currency issued by several banks, and to hurt the US, Britain counterfeited it, and flooded it into circulation. Britain wouldn't take it as payment for taxes, either, and demanded gold. Even then, paper currency was based on credit issued by private banks, and fractional reserve lending was a thing, then, just like today. Jackson saw that system as easy to fail, which could cause a bank run, with the depositors losing all their money.
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I've tried to weigh what occurred in the Civil War, equally, and by both sides actions. Abolition was, indeed, one thing that was being pushed by the North going back to Jefferson and Randolph. However, many northerners didn't want the slaves there, if released. Liberia was a result of that, and there was talk of shipping them to Panama by Lincoln.
Some, in the South, agreed to free them, if they were reimbursed for their cost, like the English did. I read an account by an ex-slave who thought that Lincoln would pay the planters back for their loss. He was mistaken, and that led to the bankruptcy of many post-war planters, who had huge sums invested, and had borrowed that money from the northern elite. However, one wonders how many planters, especially from the large 1,000+ acre plantations, were sincere about this. It was stated, though, that slavery cost them more than hiring “free labor” from the general population.
There is also much truth to the South's claims about states' rights, high tariffs, and taxes. So, it wasn't just about slavery. The south could obtain better deals by purchasing imports, such as iron and steel from Britain. The tariffs stopped that.
The burning and looting that was allowed, by the North in the South, though, was reprehensible, as were some of the things that occurred in the south during reconstruction. However, look at what occurred about quashing liberty and civil rights in the North, during the war.
In the end, it was, as with every other war, economics and money that was at the root of it.
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