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Originally Posted by SGR
I'm excited for your review of the contentious 1876 election that resulted in Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president. And also your view on the gilded age presidents in general. It's a period of American history that for some reason is largely forgotten in the public consciousness. It's the awkward teenage years, past the heralded glories of our childhood but before we become an international adult powerhouse.
Don't forget to tell the story of Taft getting stuck in a bathtub, or Teddy Roosevelt relaying the sasquatch story told to him by a trapper in one of his books.
I am excited for this journal.
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I'll definitely be covering the Gilded Age period. It's one of the periods that interest me as well given it was also the age of post-reconstruction and the era of the railroad robber barons not to mention the practice of the spoils system, something that would prove fatal to one American President.
I'll look at Taft and the bathtub (I have heard stories). Never heard about the Sasquatch story though. I know Teddy liked to go on safari.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Getting my gun loaded for if this libtard whitewashes Woodrow Wilson.
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I'm sure he'll mention that WW watched a White House screening of The Birth of a Nation.
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I assure you our Woody won't be whitewashed. I'm quite aware of the Birth of a Nation story and you'll be pleased to know he is not one of my favorite Presidents.
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Originally Posted by music_collector
There is something I never understood with regard to party loyalty in the U.S.. It seems to me (likely based on what the media spews at us) that you're either a hardcore Dem or hardcore Rep. There is no in between. That people literally fight those allegiances, I don't understand. It's as if each party is a family in the mafia. We're slowly becoming that way as well.
Judges are appointed here. Senators are also appointed. Neither is a good idea. I'm sure most of you heard about the freedom convoy in January. One of the organizers (conservative leaning) was arrested. On her first day in court, she was in front of a liberal appointed judge. The judge was a liberal candidate in a recent federal election (my old riding, actually). The person was denied bail. The charges against her were mischief, obstruction of police, and intimidation. She appealed shortly after, implying that the judge's liberal leanings suggested that she was held without bail for political reasons. She won, and was granted bail.
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There was a time when our Senators were appointed here too but they switched to popular vote (as it should be) sometime in the early twentieth century. As for the judges, I don't know what the solution is. They shouldn't be beholden to the popular vote or to some Senator's ideology, left or right. It seems that the lesser of the evils is for the judges to police themselves, but then who will objectively police the judges when they become corrupt?
Anyway, I'll start off the actual journal tomorrow. Meanwhile, time to work on James Madison.
06-07-2022, 06:33 AM
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