So the person who rents a $10,000 a month apartment in Manhattan is only out for themselves and should be stripped of their right to vote, while the person who inherited a shack somewhere will only have everyone's best interest at heart and should be part of the ruling class?
Our military takes an oath to serve & protect our country. Do you trust them to have our country’s best interests at heart?
Then why not just go to a military government, ruled by a junta of generals? The founders thought standing armies "dangerous to liberty" and took great pains to control them. You, on the other hand, think that their taking a vow make them worthy to rule.
Why didn’t the ones who stayed behind & protected their “master’s” family while he & the older sons were away at war- just leave? They could have. They could have taken the gun left for that purpose & run off. Maybe some did, but some stayed…
In point of fact, they left in their hundreds of thousands, making their way to the nearest US Army forces. And tens of thousands of them then put on the uniform of the United States and fought against those same "masters" who were off with their older sons at war. Many more simply refused to work any more. Read about what happened at Jefferson Davis's plantation. They picked up guns, alright, and used them to drive off a confederate cavalry patrol sent to take back control of their president's property. That's why the confederates were forced to enact the very unpopular measure of exempting the owners of a certain number of slaves fro the draft--in order to keep them working.
You are correct that the children & grandchildren became “property” of the “owners”. Was that a bad thing or was it a guarantee that they would have housing, food, & medical care? Should they have been turned out- ripped from their mothers & fathers who loved them? I don’t think it was common practice to “sell” them. A decent person certainly wouldn’t.
And yet that's what happened all the time. Thomas Jefferson wanted to free his slaves when he died, but because of debts, most of them were sold off, families broken up. Breaking up families was seen as unfortunate, but what else could you do when they were a capital asset, part of an estate? Tell your creditors that they're family?
As much as you try to deny it, you're defending slavery and saying it really wasn't that bad, more like a benevolent welfare state than a heinous practice. You truly do long for an aristocracy--one of land, of title, of military rank--to rule over this country, don't you? Because that's what you're saying.
The South will never “pay” enough to satisfy people like you, will we? Only when we are erased from the face of the earth. (Where have we heard that before?) That won’t end it, either. Revenge endures forever & harms the vengeful far more than the object.
Oh, poor, pitiful victimized you.
Are you just being contrary or are you one of those people who has to “be right” or have the last word, Bubba? I can let you do that, no problem. Just say so & let’s be done.
Actually, I *do* wish our military would step up & remove 0bama & his people from the government. How many times have they broken the law? Our Congress is corrupt & worthless. They won’t take care of it, they’ll only grab for “theirs”.
I trust our military & our ousted generals one heckuva lot more than I trust what we’re saddled with.
Someone in another thread posted a link to an Act, article whatever, that would have made slavery permanent & irrevocable.
Yes, it went both ways. What you are saying doesn’t negate the opposite. Just because you don’t want to acknowledge it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
What do we have now? We have a situation where people’s every need is provided for (while others are excluded because they don’t have the right last name, origin, or ethnicity) & they don’t need to do a thing in return but file paperwork. They can be bone idle & even engage in criminal activity. The taxpayer foots the bill (how is that not “slavery”?) & gets nothing in return but more demands & more trouble.
I’m not “defending” it at all. I’m saying it wasn’t the parasitic, demonic evil that you (the left & the BGI) are portraying it as.
I really don’t care if there’s an “aristocracy” or not. I’ve never lived in one. The only thing I long for is relief from a bunch of overbearing fanatics (whom I happen to disagree with) who are bound & be-damned to run every minute aspect of my life.
I don’t know if you’re trolling for S&G, BGI yourself, a democrat in RINO clothing or WTH. I won’t speculate. Now, you’re annoying me so have a nice day.
Poor me? Poor YOU. And except for the taxes you pay, I doubt you (or any of your recent relations) have ever been enslaved a day in your life.