Kiwegapawa wrote:
Dang Forum count down, tried to fit the last in as the clock timed out on me.. So much for taking a moment to refill my coffee cup, LoL Try that again.
You're talking to someone who was volunteer councilor for those of domestic violence groups for 6 years,, Yep thats right a Layman Councilor, Someone trained and placed and approved many, many, years previous to your comment here,, Someone judges sent these to us when they needed counseling for domestic abuses. Let alone the walkins off the street. But of course,, you've yourself have never had a counselor, or Psychiatrist, or psychologist, your just the model of perfection, hunh? And BOY, you're crying the river of Denial.. That's my professional opinion! What a Loon! The cycles must run real tight in your world!
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Contain yourself. Pawa or whatever moniker currently in use, you needn't get all disturbed and overwrought. Not sure what you mean by tight cycles, &, no, I haven't seen a counselor. I'm a bit Aspergerish (not so extreme as Bones & Sheldon on TV, if you're familiar with them) and thus somewhat tactless. Sorry if I touched a nerve. So you were a volunteer counselor for victims of domestic abuse. I am impressed but somewhat surprised because my stereotype for social work volunteers is idealistic liberals. ha. You have exploded another of my stupid stereotypes! Thank you. Two Tea Party Herman Cain supporters on another forum site dramatically explode the widespread racism TP stereotype. ha. Details often reveal surprising sides to people and politics.
This is in reply to your post regarding stepping up on the subject of Andrew Jackson, which somehow you think I misinterpreted. The quote above somehow turned out to be your continuation of that post. I also have a computer that crashes on me--very frustrating.
I do appreciate all those details about Andrew Jackson's awfulness. They weren't taught in my junior year U.S. history class at Central High School in Fountain City, Tennessee, in 1953/54. Are you aware that AJ adopted a Cherokee orphan? or that on his deathbed to told his slaves gathered around his deathbed that they would all be together again in heaven? They didn't teach that either--ran into those details somewhere along the way. AJ wasn't all villain, of course. Don't get all upset about AJ.
Now, regarding Jacksonianism rather than AJ the person who did all these various wrongs you list, my take-off from that was about Jacksonianism and my realization around 1984 that the present-day Jacksonians are the Republicans, with the recent development of Tea Party wing to the GOP quite clearly parallel to the Jacksonian populists. If you are familiar with the Jacksonian views opposing federal government road building, finance, taxation, etc., you can see the parallel to GOP thinking today. The Democrats as the present-day equivalent of the Federalist-Whig-original GOP positions for proactive federalism-- that parallel should also be obvious once pointed out. So far as I know, these parallels haven't been noticed by political scientists. ha.
The Jacksonians were the original Democrat Party, thus ironic that the Democrats today are opposite viewpoint to the original party. Equally ironic that the Republican viewpoint is opposite to the original GOP and its predecessors the Federalists and Whigs. The reversal of positions happened during the Great Depression. Now the Fed-Whig-original GOP line historically was the conservatives and the original Democrats were considered the liberals (opposed to federal government infringement on rights of states and individuals). The original labels have remained attached to the partord even though the present day parties are reversed in positions from the originals...thus the terms conservative and liberal have different meanings in politics today than they did in the first half of the 1800s. I go back to the original reference and regard the Democrats to some degree to be the conservatives in today's politics and the GOP the wild-eyed liberals in politics today...somewhat eccentric interpretation and in practice I do refer to the right side as conservative and the left side as liberals. However I do insist that the communists, the extreme left, are the opposite of liberal--and that the extremists on the right are the opposite of conservative. That's a matter of visualizing politics as a circle, with the extremes of right and left circling around to opposite side of circle and the extremes ending up in the same political position--absolutism and dictatorship government.
Now just because the GOP is present-day Jacksonian doesn't mean you who despise AJ need to be down on the GOP. Just because the more radical Tea Party wing of the GOP is the present-day equivalent of the more radical Jacksonians, the populists...doesn't mean you should reject the Tea Party out of hand. It may mean, however, that you might want to consider the possibility that the GOP and Tea Party might be capable of some actions once in power that might be radical change that you might not like at all. Revolutionary change can be extreme--and, as I keep insisting in my posts, is not conservative.
Does all that explain to you