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2024 Is 1800 All Over Again, Because Free Speech Is On The Ballot
Flopping Aces ^ | 10-19-24 | Vince

Posted on 10/19/2024 2:09:37 PM PDT by Starman417

Sex, sexual ambiguity, race, incompetence, war mongering and foreign interventions. While those are familiar issues in 2024, they’re merely echoes of earlier times… like the election of 1800!

The presidential campaign of 1800 was the sequel to the first truly contested American presidential election in 1796 and featured the same two primary players.  John Adams won and Thomas Jefferson lost and became vice president – the only time in history that’s happened.

Although friends, the men became viscous rivals – although never actually campaigning themselves – and the campaigns were as brutal as any seen in modern times.

With the French Revolution still ravaging our first ally, their ambassador openly advocated for the Francophile Jefferson, seeking to defeat Adams who was thought to be considering war with France. At the same time the Federalists – Adams’ party – tried to paint Jefferson as potentially getting the US into a war with Britain.

Four years later the campaigns became far more personal and far more viscous. “Jefferson's camp accused President Adams of having a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." In return, Adams' men called Vice President Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." As the slurs piled on, Adams was labeled a fool, a hypocrite, a criminal, and a tyrant, while Jefferson was branded a weakling, an atheist, a libertine, and a coward.”

Perhaps most consequentially as it relates to the election of 1800 vs. that of 1796 was the 1798 passage of the Sedition Act, part of what’s commonly referred to as the Alien and Sedition Acts.  The Sedition Act essentially targeted Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson’s party) editors and made it illegal to “write, print, utter or publish…any false, scandalous and malicious writing…with intent to defame the…government” To demonstrate how partisan this law was, the Federalists, who controlled Congress, wrote it to expire on March 3rd 1801, so that it wouldn’t be available to the Democratic-Republicans if they prevailed in the election.

Ironically, the law, which was intended to help Adams and targeted Jefferson supporters didn’t have the desired effect at all, and Jefferson won.  It’s interesting, that John Adams, one of America’s primary Founding Fathers, sought to undermine the Constitution the first opportunity he got.  Indeed, he understood that the Constitution itself was little more than a piece of paper, telling the Massachusetts Militia:  “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” While the law was highly controversial and was enforced only sparingly, it stands as a monument to the reality that Americans must be vigilant in the protection of the right to free speech.

Which brings us to Democrats in the 21st century.  Everywhere we go we see limitations on free speech from campus speech codes to hate speech legislation to schools coercing teachers to use “correct” pronouns.  And government interventions are almost never productive. Take “hate speech” where the feelings of victims are elevated above the rights of speakers. Does it change the opinion of the speaker? The person towards whom (if any) the speech is directed?  Not usually. If the premise is that government can protect “victims” from hearing speech that offends, where does it stop?  Must blacks be protected from discussions of IQ differences based on race?  Must whites be protected from being characterized as racist? Facebook recognizes 56 different genders.  Are Americans going to be forced to learn all 56 pronouns so as to not hurt anyone’s feelings?

As if all of that was not bad enough, COVID and the 2020 election opened a Pandora’s Box of speech restrictions. The Democrats and their fellow travelers in the media, the intelligence community and the Healthcare Industrial Complex spent years seeking to ban speech with a different perspective of the official narrative. Doctors who wanted to talk about alternatives were suspended while videos opposing “lockdowns” were deleted and those mentioning “vaccine misinformation” were banned.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 01jeffersonwasnasty; 1800; 2024election; alienseditionacts; despotism; dissent; federalists; france; freespeech; frenchrevolution; godsgravesglyphs; johnadams; massachusetts; seditionact; theframers; therevolution; thomasjefferson; tyranny; virginia

1 posted on 10/19/2024 2:09:37 PM PDT by Starman417
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To: Starman417

That was then,this is now.
Most of what is depicted is one man’s opinion...


2 posted on 10/19/2024 2:21:35 PM PDT by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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I just shudder to think what will become of our beautiful beloved nation if the communists win in November. And that is with a big S because she can carry all the rest of her communist rat friends with her in the down ballot. God help us if that happens. We will know in VERY SOON what our future, our destiny, and our end will be. Please, PLEASE, go vote and take as many people as you can especially if you live in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, and other states. Please please vote like your children’s lives depend on it. Any parent would walk through blazing coals or broken glass to save their Children from impending death …this is what we MUST do! Let’s WAKE UP THE SLEEPING GAINT and WIN! Take your family, friends, neighbors and anyone else you can think of to the voting booth but make sure they are absolutely voting for Trump. If they intend to vote for the communist cackling hyena it defeats the purpose.


3 posted on 10/19/2024 2:24:43 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Starman417
the men became viscous rivals

Sounds like a sticky situation.

4 posted on 10/19/2024 3:00:41 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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Viscous rivals. They oozed animosity.


5 posted on 10/19/2024 3:23:30 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Starman417
Although friends, the men became viscous rivals...


6 posted on 10/19/2024 5:27:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
[snip] ...the 1798 passage of the Sedition Act, part of what's commonly referred to as the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Sedition Act essentially targeted Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson's party) editors and made it illegal to "write, print, utter or publish...any false, scandalous and malicious writing...with intent to defame the...government" To demonstrate how partisan this law was, the Federalists, who controlled Congress, wrote it to expire on March 3rd 1801, so that it wouldn't be available to the Democratic-Republicans if they prevailed in the election. [/snip]
Adams was a paranoid nutjob, but ironically he performed an undeniable great service to the early nation -- he followed President George Washington.
[snip]...every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. [/snip] Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801, First Inaugural Address

7 posted on 10/19/2024 6:18:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Bookmark.


8 posted on 10/19/2024 7:41:07 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

Perhaps that’s why our education system now ignores it.


9 posted on 10/20/2024 2:01:23 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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“the men became viscous ….”

Someone needs an editor.

L


10 posted on 10/20/2024 2:29:11 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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For the record, You can yell “Fire” in a crowded theater. Walz is a putz.


11 posted on 10/20/2024 7:37:16 AM PDT by griswold3 ( Robespierre and Pol Pot were “unburdened by what has been” Harris the "Year Zero" candidate)
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