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“the leaders of Jamestown borrowed directly from the roman model of slavery: abandoned children and debtors were made slaves.”_________ “in ‘a model of Christian charity’, Winthrop declared that some were meant to rule, others to serve their betters: ’god almightie in his most holy and wise providence hath soe disposed the condition of mankind, as in all times some must be rich some poore, some highe and eminent in power and dignitie; others meane and in subjection.’ lest there be any doubt, governor Winthrop despised democracy, which he brusquely labeled “the meanest and worst of all forms of government.’ for puritans, the church and state worked in tandem; the coercive arm of the magistracy was meant to preserve both public order and class distinctions.” nancy Isenberg. ..”white trash: the 400-year old untold history of class in America.”__________________________ ___ “if shays had not been as desperate debtor, it is much to be doubted whether massachucetts would have been plunged into civil war.” “that damned ass hamilton” federalist VI ___________ “complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good id disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force an interested and overbearing majority.” madison . federalist X_________________________________________________ ___ politics here has always had a puritanical edge to it…while the framers may not have directly come out and said that god said so, they agreed with Winthrop about the desirability of limiting anything that resembled an expression of popular political will…when madison talks about protecting the “minor party” from an “interested and overbearing majority” he isn’t trying to protect those with a small political voice…he is working towards subverting popular political will and so protecting the “highe and eminent in power and dignitie”…the elite…shays wasn’t so much a “desperate debtor” as a revolutionary war veteran ( a captain in the 5th massachucetts regiment ) with a “rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts ( actually burdensome property taxes ), for an equal division of property…”[madison federalist X] which madison calls “improper” and “wicked” projects…because they are the result of an “overbearing majority” infringing on “the minor party…the origins of class here stretch back a long way and the “classless” state of america is a fiction foisted on us by high school civics...high school was over long ago…I would never vote for donald trump…he is divisive, racist, and pretty much a jerk...i want that clear…it is instructive , however, to see how the republican elite ( the standard bearers of class warfare in the united states ) squirm when faced with what is , in the end, an expression of popular will by an “interested and overbearing majority” of putative republican hoi polloi voters…it will be instructive to see how the looming convention plays out as well...this all stands in direct opposition to the well-ordered system the framers of the constitution envisioned…trump is of the elite…his supporters are not…the doyens and doges in the republican party are not pleased…it is un-american…we could discuss the equally thick slime on the other side of this zoo parade…but I believe that can wait for a bit…necessary though it is.