Saturday, May 16, 2020
RE DK'S CURRENT POST RE THE CONSTITUTION THE NEGATIVE SUM GAME
See Also: The 1619 Project
I would suggest that the workings and results of the separation of powers, and associated checks and balances, so to speak, based on the way our system is structured, have been not merely a zero sum game, for American citizens, but decidedly a negative sum game, going forward from the beginning in 1776, 1787.
The average citizen was probably better off, in terms of governance, both state and federal, under Washington, or at least certainly no worse off, all given circumstances considered, than we are today.
At least a third or a quarter of them were still, even then, white indentured servants, not negro slaves. White servants to other white colonists. White indentured servants kept pouring in even during the 19th Century.
See Colonists In Bondage;
...William Miller posits a more moderate theory, stating that "the Revolution...wrought disturbances upon white servitude. But these were temporary rather than lasting".[14] David Galenson supports this theory by proposing that the numbers of British indentured servants never recovered, and that Europeans from other nationalities replaced them....Wikipedia
Europeans from other nationalities replaced British indentures in the 19th Century. These poor devils competed head to head with enslaved negroes, at least in the South. In the North, by then, there were very few negroes at all, because the northerners would not put up with them, not because they cared about them or their freedom. See Tocqueville, terms search this blog.
Re Obama's attack on Trump, alleging that the pandemic has exposed failings in the country's leadership, this is a poor way to characterize the problem.
The pandemic has exposed failings in the structure of the American system of government, not merely whether its leaders, in this particular election cycle, have failed or succeeded, whatever that could even mean in such a failed system. But that is not Obama's party line message.
I would suggest that the workings and results of the separation of powers, and associated checks and balances, so to speak, based on the way our system is structured, have been not merely a zero sum game, for American citizens, but decidedly a negative sum game, going forward from the beginning in 1776, 1787.
The average citizen was probably better off, in terms of governance, both state and federal, under Washington, or at least certainly no worse off, all given circumstances considered, than we are today.
At least a third or a quarter of them were still, even then, white indentured servants, not negro slaves. White servants to other white colonists. White indentured servants kept pouring in even during the 19th Century.
See Colonists In Bondage;
...William Miller posits a more moderate theory, stating that "the Revolution...wrought disturbances upon white servitude. But these were temporary rather than lasting".[14] David Galenson supports this theory by proposing that the numbers of British indentured servants never recovered, and that Europeans from other nationalities replaced them....Wikipedia
Europeans from other nationalities replaced British indentures in the 19th Century. These poor devils competed head to head with enslaved negroes, at least in the South. In the North, by then, there were very few negroes at all, because the northerners would not put up with them, not because they cared about them or their freedom. See Tocqueville, terms search this blog.
Re Obama's attack on Trump, alleging that the pandemic has exposed failings in the country's leadership, this is a poor way to characterize the problem.
The pandemic has exposed failings in the structure of the American system of government, not merely whether its leaders, in this particular election cycle, have failed or succeeded, whatever that could even mean in such a failed system. But that is not Obama's party line message.
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