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Alexander Hamiliton had/has it right

RumphSquatch

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Describes Democrats of today to the tee in Federalist Paper No. 1. Democrats say they are for the American people by wanting to protect our rights, advocate for entitlement programs for the people. When in reality, it's just to get/keep your vote so they can remain in power while they really do nothing. And there is nothing more profound than when Hamilton says that a "dangerous ambition lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people" is a more certain path to an oppressive government than "the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government". Trump's nationalism is portrayed as something evil by Democrats. Trump's nationalism agenda is that "forbidden appearance" while Democrat dogma that they are advocates for people's rights and entitlements is that "specious mask of zeal" covered by their dangerous ambition to get into power undermine the government and the Constitution.

Federalist Paper No. 1 excerpt:

And yet, however just these sentiments will be allowed to be, we have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose. To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good. It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.
 
They had been living under the rule of KING George. Totally different perspective than the last 200 plus years.
 
They had been living under the rule of KING George. Totally different perspective than the last 200 plus years.
So by that logic, the Constitution doesn't apply either. It's very much the same then as now. Civil unrest and complete opposition of the parties of Congress, such as the Federalist and Anti-Federalists. Not to mention the Democratic party's socialist agenda, which is a form of oppressive government.
 
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