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Posted on 06/18/2015 8:37:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ben Domenech wonders how early America’s most famous self-made man, who fought by Washington’s side in the revolution, who co-wrote the Federalist Papers, who constructed the country’s financial system, and who was decades ahead of his time in opposing the slave trade ended up on the currency chopping block.
Our terrible ruling class can’t even resist farking up our money.
Back in 2009, during the height of the Tea Party, there were crotchety old Americans who warned in dark tones about the dangers of this president. He was a socialist, they said, and feckless to boot. He hated the American Founding and the men who built the foundations of this country. He would lead us into war and ruin and despair, and he would tear down the monuments to our heroes along the way. He was anti-American through and through, in ways that us youngsters did not understand. When they said this, I would disagree as politely as possible. The president is wrong about policy, wrong about direction, I said at the time, but he is not a socialist, not someone who hates America. He may have the wrong ideas, but his heart was still in the right place, or close to it.
Is it possible they were right, and I was wrong?
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says it’s no slight against Hamilton, just a quirk of scheduling: The $10 was due for a redesign and the feds want a woman on the currency by 2020 to celebrate the centenary of women’s suffrage. But of course it’s a slight. No one thinks Washington would be booted from the $1 or Lincoln from the $5 if those bills were next for a design overhaul. As for why Hamilton instead of Jackson, the great persecutor of Native Americans and a man effectively disowned by his party (a fan of decentralization with a southern base is basically the opposite of the modern Democratic Party), Lew says it’s because the bills need to be redesigned sequentially for some reason. Presumably Jackson will be cashiered in due time too, but not by 2020.
Who’s replacing Hamilton? Lew won’t say yet:
Lew said Obama administration officials are seeking advice nationwide — including people who “aren’t comfortable using a hashtag as well as people who are comfortable using a hashtag.”
“We are going to be open to many ideas as we go forward consistent with theme of democracy,” Lew said. “Our thinking is to select a woman who has played a major role in our history who represents the theme of democracy.”
The bills with Hamilton in it, which were first introduced in 1929, will continue to be used for as long as those bill last, Lew said.
Presumably it’ll be Harriet Tubman, the name most often mentioned as a potential replacement for Jackson. Hard to believe the feds, having resolved to remove one of the most influential Founders from the sawbuck in favor of a woman, would double down on an all-white currency by choosing a white woman over a black one. Besides, Tubman is better known to most Americans, I’d bet, than leaders of the suffrage movement like Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony, or Elizabeth Cady Stanton. One of the arguments made on Twitter last night for why Hamilton ended up being sent into currency retirement is that many of us simply don’t know who he is, his amazing achievements notwithstanding. He’s expendable culturally in a way that American presidents like Washington, Lincoln, and even Jackson simply aren’t. It would be odd if the woman who replaced him is much more obscure than he is, even granting that women had grossly fewer opportunities than men like Hamilton did to make a major mark on American politics until recently. Tubman made hers despite everything that was stacked against her. Eleanor Roosevelt did too, although it would be beyond strange to find FDR’s First Lady on the currency when FDR himself, arguably the most consequential president of the last hundred years, isn’t.
But I digress. Jack Lew’s rationalizations aside, why’d they bump Hamilton instead of Jackson? One theory being kicked around last night was that a Democratic administration wouldn’t bump a former Democratic president from the currency, but like I said above, that doesn’t wash. There are few modern Dems who view the term “Jacksonian” as a compliment. Another possibility, as noted, is that Hamilton’s less well known to the public than Jackson is, which may be true but isn’t so true that it would explain a strong preference for bumping the former instead of the latter. Washington and Lincoln are untouchable American icons; Jackson once had an iconic status, but time and greater public awareness of his political sins has eroded his cultural currency. His own accomplishments don’t rival Hamilton’s. He should have been the first to go and would have gone with less objection from people who know their history. Maybe Hamilton was picked for retirement precisely because the administration knew that replacing him would be more likely to provoke a public outcry, especially among GOPers who think greater respect for the Founders and their constitutional scheme are key to restoring American greatness. The more Republicans grumble about Hamilton being tossed, the easier it is to frame their complaints as opposition to having a woman on the currency, a fine little flourish for the “war on women” crapola to come this year and next. Exit question: Which GOP candidate will be the first to call for reinstating Hamilton?
Harvey Milk liked to be **close** behind. Anyway, he is slated to be on the $3 bill.
Oh, there are so many worthy American wen to chose from that it would be a shame to limit it to just one.
Maybe an arch of portraits of
Eleanor Roosevelt
Betty Friedan
Bella Abzug
Helen Thomas
RuPaul
Oprah Winfry
A veritable eithiopa of talent.
;=)
Here's an example:
Anyone want to place odds on Michelle Obama being on the bill?
You can bet some libs will want Margaret Sanger on it.
Who are Harriet Tubman, Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony, or Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
You can bet Jackson will be next.....this is just the beginning
Racial Dollarz...
With all the Obamatons in the goobermint no doubt all our currency will have to be redesigned to reflect the new debauchery. Bruce Jenner, Al Sharpton, Barack, Moochelle, Pope Peronista, Al Gore. It is not like any old dead white men did anything for the nation.
I've noticed that of late when Hamilton is used in modern pop culture context (from historical fiction novels to TV dramas like "Sam Adams") he is portrayed as a self absorbed blowhard with delusions of grandeur. As if he had little or no substance and was simply riding the coat tails of Washington's favor. The lefties don't like him much, I guess.
It should be Caitlyn Jenner.
Sadly, I would guess that most high school students today would have no idea who Alexander Hamilton was, much less what he did. At the same time, I would be suprized if threre were many of those same students who did not know about Rosa Parks. That’s where our educational system put its priorities these days.
We finally have the answer. It was never Hamilton vs Jackson. Both will be replaced. Probably the rest of them too. There are a lot of special groups in the dem party.
They should print President Hillary’s image on it.
This is about libtards erasing the founding father most responsible for the nation’s former capitalist economy.
Harvey is on the three dollar bill....
Well, it will be "Must See TV" when Planned Parenthood and the Ku Klux Klan both lobby Congress on behalf of Margaret Sanger.
It will be Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth. Dems will want a toofer on this one.
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