Hey, ho Buttigieg says Thomas Jefferson has to go... (campaign, activist, death)

[Slater]

Heck, 100 or 200 years from now people may look on Martin Luther King with contempt.

[heart84]

Buttgig yet another authoritarian leftist trying to revise history. These backdoor policies cannot be allowed to stand.

[MUTGR]

Originally Posted by heart84

Buttgig yet another authoritarian leftist trying to revise history. These backdoor policies cannot be allowed to stand.

Agreed. And well stated.

[MUTGR]

Originally Posted by eureka1

That "insignificant turd" has accomplished more in HIS brief life than you have, hasn't he??

Not really. I appreciate the military service, but what else is there? Which is probably why, as far as I can tell, he is running on being gay.

[geofra]

I like Mayor Pete, and I understand his opinion. Jefferson's perspective on slavery is schizophrenic.

Thomas Jefferson wrote:

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.

And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trarnple on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other.

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

He wrote eloquently for emancipation. But his slaves were never freed until his death. It is the most frustratingly immense gulf between a man's words and his deeds that I have come across.

[Absolom]

The United States very existence is, to the progressive set, troubling and problematic. All reminders and images of the country's history except for MLK must be expunged.

[Absolom]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell, 1984.

You Are Here.

[Eumaois]

Originally Posted by Scotty011

These damn snowflake liberals make me sick. They have no respect for this country or its founders.

I guess the same thing could arguably be said about conservatives, depending on the situation.

[engineman]

Perhaps he can get a job as a bartender.

[travis t]

Originally Posted by geofra

I like Mayor Pete, and I understand his opinion. Jefferson's perspective on slavery is schizophrenic.

Thomas Jefferson wrote:







He wrote eloquently for emancipation. But his slaves were never freed until his death. It is the most frustratingly immense gulf between a man's words and his deeds that I have come across.

Jefferson was a spendthrift who horribly mismanaged his personal finances. That's probably the reason that he was not able to free his slaves. George Washington did free his slaves upon death. Most of the founders saw slavery as an evil to be temporarily tolerated. They figured it would gradually go away.