Afgelopen zaterdag ontving ik een artikel van Harvey Wasserman. Hierin vertelt hij over het beest Trump en zijn uitlating dat zijn held, Andrew 'Andy' Jackson, de burgeroorlog in de VS had kunnen voorkomen...... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Jackson was een genocidale voorstander van slavernij, dezelfde slavernij die ten grondslag lag aan die burgeroorlog......... Jackson was democraat en onder zijn presidentschap is een enorm aantal oorspronkelijke bewoners van de VS vermoord, de zogenaamde indianen.......
Eerst als militair en later als president, heeft deze schoft een fikse steen bijgedragen aan de vreselijke en enorme genocide die de leiders van het gestolen land hebben uitgevoerd op de oorspronkelijke bewoners van dat 'land'. Het gestolen 'land' dat wordt aangeduid als de Verenigde Staten van Amerika.........
Het gaat hier overigens over een genocide, die een enorm aantal slachtoffers meer heeft gemaakt, dan de genocide van Hitler en zijn psychopathisch tuig op de joden.........
Het maakt alweer het e.e.a. duidelijk over Trumps zieke geest....
Hier het artikel van Harvey Wasserman:
How
Trump's Genocidal Hero Andrew Jackson Might Have "Avoided the
Civil War"
A
portrait of former president Andrew Jackson hangs on the wall behind
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, in
the Oval Office at the White House in late March. (photo: Andrew
Harnik/AP)
By
Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News
05
May 17
onald
Trump’s latest insane excursion into US history has been to claim
that his great hero, Andrew Jackson, might have prevented the Civil
War.
Given
his racist, genocidal nature, our seventh president could only have
done that by giving up slavery in the South, spreading it into the
North or giving the Southwest back to Mexico.
Jackson,
of course, would never have given up slavery, which was the cause of
the war and the core of his fortune.
As
a young man, like a cowboy driving cattle, Jackson personally drove
slaves to market. He eventually owned more than a hundred of them,
and defended America’s “peculiar institution” at every
opportunity.
In
addition to their authoritarian temperaments, Jackson and Trump share
“accomplishments” such as trashing the Constitution, personally
profiting from the presidency, and inciting imperial conquest.
Jackson did stand for the Union against South Carolina’s threatened
secession, but that was about tariffs, not slavery.
Trump
rightly says Jackson was “tough.” In 1806, in one of his fourteen
duels, Jackson took a bullet an inch from his heart. He then killed
his opponent in a manner considered most unchivalrous, and became a
social outcast for many years. The bullet stayed in his chest until
his own death four decades later.
Jackson
was also a pioneer homophobe. As Sen. James Buchanan of Pennsylvania
openly lived with his likely lover, Sen. Rufus King of South
Carolina, Jackson loudly referred to him as “Aunt Nancy.” (After
King died, Buchanan became our only “bachelor president.”)
But
mainstream historians have made a hero of “Old Hickory.” Born to
dirt poor Irish immigrants who died early, Jackson’s hardscrabble
upbringing was the opposite of Trump’s.
Trump
inherited millions from his father, who was a Klan (Kukluksklan, of KKK, AP) sympathizer (or
member), a landlord so cruel that the legendary leftie folksinger
Woody Guthrie wrote a song denouncing him.
Andrew
Jackson pre-dated the Klan, but would’ve killed for an estate like
the one Trump inherited. And he did.
As
an orphan, Jackson began his military career at age 13. Rising
through the ranks as an Indian killer, he conquered the Chickasaw by
recruiting their ancient rivals, the Cherokee. Jackson then turned on
the Cherokee as if they had been the enemy. His racism was open,
lethal, and proud.
With
Trump-style “Common Man” rhetoric, Jackson promised to destroy
the National Bank. He then made insider deals with the smaller banks
that replaced it, enriching his backers and himself. These and other
scams helped buy him his 1000-acre slave plantation in Tennessee.
When
he conquered native land for the US, Jackson and his cronies somehow
wound up with the best parcels. His 1830 Indian Removal Act ordered
all eastern tribes to move west of the Mississippi.
The
Appalachian Cherokee had an advanced tribal government, an elected
leader (John Ross), a capitol, a written constitution, and much more.
Most lived in private homes and ran successful farms. Some (like
Ross) owned plantations and slaves. There were seven Cherokee lumber
mills.
The
Cherokee petitioned for statehood. Supreme Court Chief Justice John
Marshall ruled that the Constitution allowed no new state to be
created from existing ones (Abraham Lincoln dodged that technicality
in 1863 to form West Virginia).
But
Marshall also ruled that the Cherokee had sovereignty (a clause later
used to site casinos) and a Constitutional right to stay on their
ancestral lands.
Jackson
replied, Trump-style, that he would ignore the Court. Under Jackson’s
successor, Martin Van Buren, federal troops forced some 14,000
Cherokee out of their homes at gunpoint. Through the summer of 1838
they were held in a concentration camp. Then, along the infamous
“Trail of Tears,” they were marched hundreds of miles to
Oklahoma. About 3,000 died along the way.
Jackson
promised the Cherokee and other tribes the right to live in that
Oklahoma territory “as long as the grass grows and the rivers
flow.” Fifty years later their “excess land” was given to white
“Sooners” who raced in on horseback and covered wagons to claim
homesteads.
As
for the Civil War, its root cause was conflict over Mexican land.
Mexico abolished slavery in its 1821 revolution against Spain. But
American settlers (many from Tennessee) re-established it in 1836,
when (after the Alamo) they made Texas an independent republic.
Jackson
died in 1845. The next year his protégé, James K. Polk, provoked a
war and took from Mexico what became New Mexico, Arizona, California,
Colorado, Nevada and more. US troops marched all the way into Mexico
City, where young soldiers like Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
fought side-by-side. Americans like Abraham Lincoln and Henry Thoreau
denounced the conquest as a “poison pill.”
The
Civil War broke out when slave owners demanded the right to spread
slavery into the West. California’s 1850 statehood gave free states
a majority in Congress. War erupted in Kansas, where John Brown and
other abolitionists battled slave owners for control.
The
only way Jackson’s “art of the deal” might have avoided the
Civil War was by persuading northerners to embrace slavery, or
southerners to give it up. But both regions were committed to
expansion, and neither wanted the other’s economic system. When
Lincoln said the nation could not exist “half slave and half free,”
he was tragically correct.
Of
course, war might have been avoided if Jackson’s progeny had given
that land back to Mexico, or restored the Carolinas to the Cherokee,
or persuaded the southerners that slavery was never going to work in
the West anyway. Cotton does not grow in Kansas or the Southwest, and
slavery made no economic sense in the desert, corn or wheat fields.
Without
the Jacksonian conquest of Mexico, the “immigrants” Trump now
attacks would merely be living on their own land. The wall Trump
wants to build tracks a border that did not exist before Polk overran
what was once both our southern and our western neighbor.
Sorting
through his often insane pronouncements about US history, Trump has
seemed surprised to discover that Abraham Lincoln was actually his
fellow Republican, while Jackson was a Democrat. Each was the first
president from his respective party. Both were “men of the people.”
But their views on slavery were, literally, at war with each other.
Trump
might also note that when he retired from the presidency in 1837,
Jackson found a trusted relative had squandered his wealth. Much of
what he’d gouged out of slaughtering Indians and whipping slaves
was gone.
Since
Trump has joined Jackson in using the presidency to enrich himself,
he might want to oversee his sons more carefully.
He
might also try doing a better job with the economy. As Trump’s hero
left office in 1837, his immediate “legacy” featured a major
stock market panic followed by four years of depression.
No
doubt the Great Historian would loudly blame that on the Democrats …
until he realized his hero actually was one.
Harvey
Wasserman’s History
of the US is at www.solartopia.org,
along with Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth.
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Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, op één van de labels, die u hieronder terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: John Brown, Chickasaw, A. Jackson en Lincoln.
