Posted on 09/02/2011 12:24:40 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
...David W. Blight, a professor of history at Yale....: "Why can't we just get over the Civil War in America?"
[I]deologically, many of the issues of 2011 are much the same as in 1861. Given the hold the tea party seems to have on the base of the Republican Party, we should take notice when some in the group invoke the Confederate constitution as a model for anti-tax, anti-centralization libertarianism.
One can easily find scoundrels and wacko nut jobs in any group, including the Democrat Party and, especially, university faculty lounges. But what animates the vast majority of the Tea Party is its allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, not the Confederate one. But Blight is not satisfied; he goes on to compare his ideological foes to slaveholders:
Indeed, yesterday's secessionists and today's nullifiers have much in common. Both are distinct minorities who have suddenly seized an inordinate degree of power. One acted in revolution to save a slaveholders' republic; the other seems determined to render modern federal government all but obsolete for any purpose but national defense. [...] Today, states' rights claims are advanced by many governors and Republican-majority legislatures in the very language of "secession" and "nullification" made so infamous in antebellum America. They are aided and abetted by a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, although the justices have not justified "nullification" by name.
I googled "nullification" and was not surprised that the second hit was to a webpage at a site I'm familiar with: The Tenth Amendment Center. The webpage lists the "Current Nullification Efforts," and this statement of purpose:
The 10th Amendment Movement is an effort to push back against unconstitutional federal laws and regulations on a state level. The principle is known as "nullification," and was advised by many prominent founders.
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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Get over it.
Nice too that Al Gore is calling anyone who doesn't buy his line on Global Warming (Big Climate) is a racist.
No doubt anyone opposed to National Health Care will become a racist too.
If I may ask the learned professor, "What the hell are you talking about?"
Is he conflating the confederate constitution with the U.S. Constitution?
The most frustrating thing about the left is: they don't listen, they don't hear, they don't read, they don't see.
They know literally nothing about those things and ideas which animate the right.
And, it is becoming apparent, they either don't want to know or are incapable of learning.
They may think they know. But they don't know what they don't know.
It’s outrageous!
Now that article ticks me off. In the lead up to the election the right was all “But Obama has no record, no experience and questionable everything (school achievements, birthplace, citizenship). The left was “He’s black”
I would say that professor Blight is a blight on Yale, but he
is just part of the disease that has destroyed education in America.
“Professors” are sharpening their long knives for Rick Perry.
He wants to disrupt their happy little scam of “research” by breaking it away from the education part of higher education - make it more transparent and advance the idea of actually teaching students and not leaving them with huge debts.
We are fighting the slave party, again.
The Left must make everyone see the Tea Party as the problem and not at Obama’s total disaster as president.
The Left must make people run from the idea of being included as being called racists, while at the same time the Left tags the tea party conservatives as racists.
These people make me sick.
That is profound.
Nice combination of Rumsfeld and Reagan. It's not that they don't know anything; it's that so much of what they know is wrong.
Well, I am a Confederate so...Sorry.
“He wants to disrupt their happy little scam of “research” by breaking it away from the education part of higher education - make it more transparent and advance the idea of actually teaching students and not leaving them with huge debts.”
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I did not know that.
Spectacularly good idea.
Thanks.
“Tea Parties are like the confederates or something...”
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Another agenda-laden Communist, too stupid and narrow-minded to understand, that in many ways, that is a highly complimentary label.
YES! If you are against the continuing destruction of the US, then you are a racist according to the extreme left now in charge of our media and our government.
These people just don't get it.
They won't get it.
They have no desire to bury their egos and realize they were wrong with the whole 'Tea Party="racist"' meme, and so they persist.
Of course, being of the New Left (Marxists) themselves, anything they can use, subtle or otherwise to justify the festering identity politics and racial hatred they are fomenting at every level is fair game. After all, they don't think the mob will be storming their battlements.
Take note, take names.
The 'elites' would do well to study another revolution in history: The French Revolution, and how that worked out. Maybe the aristocracy isn't the place to be after all.
It’s not our fault that liberal, big government, tax & spend policies don’t work. The liberals just refuse to accept reality. You can not spend more than you take in indefinitely without serious economic consequences. Anyone with a lick of common sense understands this but liberals believe governments are somehow exempt from this reality. They aren’t and history demonstrates this over and over. The tea party is trying to prevent the meltdown that the progressive politicians are causing with their reckless economic philosophies and policies. We’re the good guys here.
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