Notwithstanding smaller government rhetoric, Republicans have promoted larger, more powerful government since Lincoln. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
One of the most exasperating things about the times in which we live is that it’s hard to discuss them – on account of what R. Emmett Tyrrell of the American Spectator coined the kultursmog. What he meant by that was the way our language has been infested by the mendacious verbiage of authoritarianism; terms that we use in conversation and writing that convey a meaning we don’t intend yet – by using the term – implicitly validate.
“Republican” is as good an example as any.
As in the Republican Party, the party founded by Abraham Lincoln – a man who believed in republican ideas like the abortion fetishists who style themselves “pro choice” believe in my body, my choice – when it comes to anything besides the extinction of the inconvenient lives of others.
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe were republicans – small “r” – in that they were advocates of America as a republic, with the lawful power of the federal government being not much and strictly delineated, the remainder diffused among the individual states and deriving, ultimately, from the people. Whose consent was a necessary precondition.
The full, formal name for them was Jeffersonian republicans – after the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Almost all of the Founders spoke with approbation of what they styled republican virtues – by which they did not mean a consolidated central state with near-omnipotent powers, as the founder of the Republican Party (Lincoln) believed.
William S. Burroughs had a great quote applicable to the worthless useless born to lose and live to lose republicant Neo-Whigs but the language is a bit harsh.
The republicants won’t be around very much longer as demographics is destiny and they hunger for their own demise.
Good, good.
All of that Representative Republics and small government are out the window as contemporary society wants none of that and the historic Magic Soil czar is busily planting.
The CPUSA (D) errors in thinking that the external enemies are just as milquetoast and weak as the Grand Old Politburo and it will bite them.
More good, good.
Interesting comments section.
H.L. Mencken on Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address
http://faithandheritage.com/2012/07/h-l-mencken-on-abraham-lincoln-and-the-gettysburg-address/
@ Hypatia,
I think he said that Ape Lincoln had it the other way around regarding who was fighting for their freedom.
Such great quotes from HL who saw through the muh demockracy smoke and mirrors long ago.
Pappy about slapped the look off my face when I was hyping Ape Lincoln as a high schooler and I thank him.
Benjamin Franklin has a great quote about here comes the orator with his flood of words and drop of reason.
Eloquent for that time as the people of today probably couldn’t understand it.
Maybe make an Ebonics or rap version of it and here is some bad news for civnat cultists, the replacements will burn all of that down if internal quislings haven’t already.
Apparatchik Deep State barnacles punched their own Enabling Act ticket with the Stig Beal and it only gets worse as the Fundamental Transformation into the hammer and sickle rolls on.
MTG of the Grand Old Politburo has filed a motion to remove comrade commissar Johnson (Israel) a few hours ago.
Wouldn’t that be rich if esteemed CPUSA (D) party member comrade Hakeem Jeffires becomes the house speaker!
With “opposition parties” like these…it only gets worse.
Dank morale maintenance find:
Hunter S. Thompson face on 1960s Batman logo with Bat Country instead of a BM logo!