He ended up universally respected by his peers after leading the army to victory, so we must judge him by his peers and they were an oligarchy if you get right down to it. Only white males who owned property voted and they were the aristocrats and super rich of their day. Society evolves and so do morals and ethics, women only had the right to vote 103 years ago in most of the Anglo world, America and the British empire. Black people could only vote effectively in many places until laws were passed in the 1960's. So social standards have changed, though with Trump they slipped back to near the dark ages!
An end to dark money means an end to these assholes and if the dems win, this is one part of the swamp that will be drained with HR-1. It will screw the republicans and cut off much of their funding, most of the small donor money will go to the low level grifters cut from the same cloth as Trump. Dark money puts American politicians on the international auction block, not just rich Americans are buying them now, Arabs, Chinese, oligarchs, or anybody with a buck can own them.
Our history books say he was universally respected. But actually reading what was written at the time tells us he had as many detractors as any modern day politician.
It’s a more subtle problem than mass-marketed propaganda based in current events, but parallel. Hagiography sells, even at the highest levels.
Oh I'm in favor of teaching real history, but in his state of Virginia at the time, it was normal behavior for someone of his class and it was by the social stands of there he was judged. Some people from northern states had a dim view of slavery and it became unpopular in England as early as the late 16 hundreds and made illegal in the 1820's , but compensation was paid to the slaveholders, not to the slaves. On the flip side, British empire emancipation freed tens of millions of slaves being held in India by Indians.
We went to St. Augustine last year for vacation. There are two churches there that have museums...The art work itself was beautiful, but wow, was it inaccurate...I'm not sure what the equivalent of hagiography would be in painting, but these guys were sure practicing it.
India has had it's own system of slavery forever. those of lower caste sell themselves or their children into indentured servitude, and the rich fucks they sell themselves to try to keep them as slaves forever if they can...AND THAT IS STILL GOING ON IN INDIA TODAY.
probably covered by the term, which refers to all media. E.g. social realism is a sort of hagiographic painting. Then there are Prokofffiev’s scores for Eisenstein films …
It still happens in the cane fields of south florida too. They ship Haitian workers in and force them to shop for food at the company store and pay rent for the over crowded shacks they stay in. Often they go back to Haiti with no money at all.
I hate this person. He's epitome of Spectacle and as evil as they come. Evil comes in many forms.
I get a card for $180 monthly from my insurance company for 'healthy choices' food and pharmacy items like BP cuff, weight scale etc. that can be used at Walmart, Safeway or King Soopers you should see what they consider healthy; nary a vegetable and you can't buy soda not even the diet coke that I drink..Velveeta items on every page of the brochure
I've never used the card and the money goes away at the end of the month.The slums of Mumbai gives me nightmares; I can't believe government allows their people to live in squalor.
Just don't say 'gay'.
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It would be insane to assume he got all that oligarch money for no reason at all…when he was in the *perfect* position to let Putin get away with whatever he liked
There’s a lot in the constitution based on an honor system (and a sense of honor) that simply no longer exists except in dinosaurs like me. I think it’s imperative that ALL OF THEM must be spelled out, violations must be subject to DISSUASIVE punishment & disqualification for public-service roles of any type, and *nothing* about *any* of them be left to honor systems of any sort.
That brings with it an entire raft of problems. The cure might be worse than the disease.
You have rules now, this would just tighten them up and systemize the process. Documents above a certain level could only be displayed on a special secure tablet computer whose screen can't be photographed by a phone camera. These can be tracked and even remotely wiped or wipe automatically if out of range of the signal for a set period of time. The contents cant be transfered to a computer of even be printed and a camera on the device even sees who is looking at the screen when it is on. Technical solutions can help a lot, but can be hacked too, however the documents would be tracked better and information keep off internet connected computers. Someone with a cellphone, access and nefarious intent could photograph a lot of secret documents. Steal a tablet and it fries itself at the WH gate and you need a thumb print to turn it on.