Good argument that I've never heard from a right winger before. "King" and "kin" are etymologically related. Rulers are supposed to be of and for the people. To rule is to serve.
11 months ago6 points(+0/-0/+6Score on mirror)1 child
Only one criticism i have for Jefferson:
While worshipping someone and giving them power simply because of royal lineage has major drawbacks, I would argue that viewing people as equal in terms of lineage can be inaccurate.
Remember, Jefforson lived before learning about genetics.
Children born from people with bad genetics, or raised by people who simply choose to be evil, tend to be bad like their parents.
Lineage can matter, just not for the same reasons or ways that a monarch thinks.
11 months ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
I don't know, man. you only have one criticism of Jefferson? I have many. He was a 1700s filthy 'tarded liberal, globalist, francophile, believing the USA should have gotten involved in the revolution over there. After Hamilton died Jefferson finally admitted he was wrong about everything and Hamilton was right about everything in a personal letter. Nationalism is the way, a strong military to discourage your enemies is the way, a national bank funding large internal infrastructure projects to boost economic efficiency is the way, being anti-globalist, ant-global finance, and America First is the way. It took the war of 1812 for Jefferson to come around. Of course that was after he helped gut the USA navy.
Hamilton was also some form of a crypto. His mother was previously in a relationship to a man called Levine and likely converted. After their relationship fell apart and she moved elsewhere in the Caribbean, Hamilton was born and went to a jewish school. There's more to it but it's easy to look up now.
11 months ago6 points(+0/-0/+6Score on mirror)1 child
Even political equality is a flawed concept, inequality is the mandate of heaven. Liberalism is poison even in its most moderate form. Just because all humans share in human nature does not make us all politically equal, even within the same race.
yes. Jefferson was talking exclusively about the divine right of kings, and nothing more. not men/women, not the races, not different cultures. only that monarchies are a joke and a republic in the image of Rome is the correct way, and in fact the USA will be a republic as they had seen first-hand the retardation and misery of monarchies.
Paine justified the idea of individuals rights this way; all men are created by God for a specific purpose and no man-made system of government has the right to interfere with the covenant between any man and his God.
The founding fathers based a lot of the Constitution and Amendments on this idea (one nation, under God) because Christianity has the only justification for the idea of rights; that we are God's creations and we have good to do.
Definitionally, no one has the right to do evil. Anyone doing evil, or attempting to subvert Good, using their rights (to speech, for example) automatically forfeits them.