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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Win Smith who wrote (16713)6/14/2001 2:03:55 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
That is rather interesting. Of course, the tendency to overlook decisive differences among the Founders and emphasize a sort of patriotic consensus pre- dates the New Deal. The idyllic, pastoral republic, supported by the yeomanry, that Jefferson envisaged was already essentially on its way out by the middle 1800's. By the turn of the century, we were simply not a Jeffersonian country, and his specific prescriptions sounded as cranky as Ghandi's promotion of cottage industry and sexual abstinence. Nevertheless, he was the Poet of the Revolution, as it were, and thus could not be put in the closet. Instead, he became part of the platitudinous stream of American political culture, someone with a few choice quotes.......
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