kvs wrote:The American dream is long dead and was never alive to begin with. I recommend people watch the movie Heaven's Gate. Not
because it is a great movie, but because it is a glimpse into the reality of the USA for immigrants. Another, eye opener
is Mattewan which shows us the feudal barbarity of the US coal mine belt. People think that the USA was always about freedom.
BS. It was the same feudal, colonial, racist sh*t as anywhere else. I saw some 1950s cowboy movie that was practically foaming
at the mouth with racist BS about US aboriginals. US aboriginals did not deserve to get ethnically cleansed. So the American
dream was supposed to overlap assorted barbarity...
Snake oil is what the USA has always peddled. It never, ever judges itself by the standard it claims to apply to others. But
that standard is mostly lie and spin. Recall the bleating during Putin's 2011 election how "only" around 60% of the eligible
voters turned out. This bleating coming from a country where some presidential elections see 40% turnouts. Although they
have been higher more recently for some reason. Also note how the US dominated western media yaps about inequality in Russia.
This takes the cake for hypocrisy. Income inequality in the USA is so bad, that even banana republics look good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
Americans hate socialism because they are brainwashed by their corporate oligarchy. Socialism (not authoritarianism) is in the
interest of the majority. At every stage of the labour movement, corporate shills and whores would always cry that the sky is
falling and that nothing short of sweatshop slavery is the only viable option to preserve the economy. Every freaking stage.
But somehow by the 1960s the USA saw the best economy it had. Then started globalization and offshoring to solve the union
"problem". Now the USA majority is relatively poorer even if they have more electronic junk. And MAGA is all about restoring
the 1960s. But the US is in a deep hole that its oligarchy has dug.
One of the great successes of brainwashing in the USA, is that "leftist progressive" thinking has been corrupted with fake identity
politics. Nobody gives a f*ck about workers' rights and the standard of living including fair healthcare. They are obsessed with
trannies and forced sex surgery on children.
Heaven's Gate is a great movie, based on facts.
But all ethnicities suffered at the hands of the Robber Barons, and still do.
It's always been a class war.
But nowadays, the Political parties are writing hot checks to throw money at persons to keep them pacified.
I think persons in Southern States hate Government-run Socialism by the United States Government, partly because of the Civil War.
Persons in Southern States will never trust the United States Government.
That's why they don't want "Socialized Medicine", although we have the VA, and Medicare, and Medicaid.
& that's why persons in Southern States want the right to own and bear guns. They don't want the United States government to have total control.
We are definitely a nation of contrasts. Some of the most patriotic members of the armed forces are the Indigenous of America.
Most of the persons are not into "leftist progressive" thinking, but that is all that is in the media.
& the elites of the Democratic Party are.
Most persons aren't racist, and don't hate each other, but that's all that is in the media, and all that is spewed by the Democrats.
Divide and conquer .
& not everyone who "bears arms", is "white",
Hundreds participate in Armed Second Amendment March
https://ktul.com/news/local/armed-second-amendment-march
Reconstruction in Texas after the Civil War,
the Union army of occupation, and the State Police
The Reconstruction Administration of Governor E. J. Davis Congressional Reconstruction brought on the governorship of E. J. Davis, the first Republican governor in the history of the state and the last for over a century to come. His actions as governor from 1870 through 1873 and those of the Twelfth Legislature would make this period highly unpopular among the majority of Texans. Each of the following actions played a part. 1. State Militia The Twelfth Legislature, in which Republican members were a leading force, empowered the creation of a state militia system under the control of Governor Davis. The governor was empowered to use the militia to maintain law and order when local officials failed or refused to do so. 2. State Police The State Police were a permanent force, as opposed to the state militia, which had the authority to operate anywhere in the state, overruling local law enforcement officials. The State Police were a relatively efficient group but they were hated at the time because blacks made up a sizable portion of the force and it was used to put down unruly and violent groups opposing Reconstruction. 3. The Enabling Act This legislation allowed Governor Davis to fill some 8,500 jobs in government at every level in Texas that had been made vacant by enforcement of the iron clad oath. Such appointive power in the hands of the governor was unprecedented in Texas where Jacksonian Democracy had always kept governors weak. 4. Martial Law Governor Davis declared martial law in Limestone, Freestone, Hill, and Walker Counties when law enforcement machinery broke down. He thus sent in the State Police to quell disorder. Historians today maintain the necessity of these actions but they were exceedingly unpopular at the time. 5. The Radical Legislative Program Reconstruction legislatures across the South have been charged with incredible corruption and lavish spending. There is some truth to these charges, but the same can be said for northern state legislatures and the federal government at the same time. There can be no question, however, that the Reconstruction legislature in Texas pursued a much more active and expensive program than Texas had ever seen before. Public funds were used to create a public school system, to subsidize the construction of railroads in the state, and to construct a road system. The Davis administration and Congressional Reconstruction were exceedingly unpopular among the majority of Texans for multiple reasons. They were accomplished by outside force through an army of occupation and centralized governmental power where Texans had always preferred decentralization. They pursued active government where Texans had always preferred small, inactive, and cheaper government. Large numbers of Texans were disfranchised by the iron clad oath while blacks were enfranchised. The coercive force of the state militia, state police, and martial law enraged the majority as did the fact that Reconstruction placed state government in the hands of Republicans. Given the tremendous unpopularity and abnormality of Congressional Reconstruction, it is understandable that Texans moved to undo everything associated with Reconstruction as soon as the state was readmitted to the Union and the iron clad oath and military occupation came to an end. The process of undoing Reconstruction began in October, 1871 when Texans removed the state's four U. S. Representatives in a special election and replaced them with four unreconstructed Democrats. Democrats regained control of the Texas legislature in late 1872 as a result of elections in which Texans vented their wrath on the Republicans. Almost immediately the Thirteenth Legislature repealed most of the "radical" legislative program enacted by the previous body and removed some of the governor's most significant powers. In December, 1873, Texans removed Governor Davis from office in favor of an unreconstructed Democrat, Richard Coke. In 1875 Texans held a constitutional convention to replace the Constitution of 1869 which had been forced on the state and which the majority of Texans regarded as anathema. In 1876 Texans adopted our present constitution which was designed to prevent a recurrence of active government forevermore. With the adoption of the Constitution of 1876 by Texas voters, the undoing of Reconstruction was complete. wrote:
https://www.austincc.edu/jlw/reconstr.html
While the dismantling of Reconstruction was complete in Texas by 1876, the impact of this experience lasted far beyond that date. The Republican party was discredited in the Lone Star state for almost one hundred years, in large part because of its association with this unpopular period. Similarly discredited was active, interventionary government. Texans had seen such a government during Reconstruction. The majority were convinced it had done things to them not done things for them. They were determined to prevent any recurrence. Government would be kept as small and as weak as at all possible in the aftermath. Reconstruction also produced the exceedingly restrictive Constitution of 1876, under which the state of Texas still attempts to function today. Finally, the Reconstruction experience created a bitterness against black Texans that would delay the attainment of equal rights for a full century.
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who probably despise anyone with less than a billion dollars of their own money...
