"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Awesome quote!
It is!
I haven't read Alexis de Tocqueville, maybe I should. That sound a little like socialism to me. I guess, at least in comparison to Europe USA was pretty high in equality at that time.
What write is probably unamerican, I am a Eurofag after all. Because USA didn't reallt have a class system, right?
Or actually you sort of did! Not everyone could vote. Also niggers were not fully classified as humans.
Here, this is a good one...
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This is a good quote too!
America didn't have a hereditary nobility, and plenty were inclined to build one. The Senate was supposed to be like the House of Lords. Initially the states were free to nominate senators as they saw fit; they are now directly elected (can't remember exactly when that changed). There were people who wanted to make George Washington the new King. The fact that the founders held so many different ideas about how to run the new country was one of the reasons they came up with such a weak Federal government as existed from the American Revolution up until basically the (American) Civil War. There were only a few things they could all agree that the government should do, such as run the military and pay off the war debt.
Though nominally a continuous government since 1787(+/-), we aren't living under the same system as back then.
Thank you for your comment. Yes the system no longer works as it should.
Because USA didn't reallt have a class system, right?
The main difference back then and for a while, between US and europe, was that there were no nobility in the US
But then you got "dynasties", a fancy word to describe intergenerational accumulation of wealth and political influence by some families see bush family
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titles_of_Nobility_Amendment
The Titles of Nobility Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution. The 11th Congress passed it on May 1, 1810, and submitted to the state legislatures for ratification. It would strip United States citizenship from any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from an "emperor, king, prince or foreign power." On two occasions between 1812 and 1816, it was within two states of the number needed to become part of the Constitution. Congress did not set a time limit for its ratification, so the amendment is still pending before the states. Ratification by an additional 26 states is now needed for its adoption.
Never knew that thank you
Actually I think he was a socialist.
Caste systems were well respected by the puritan and reformed theologians of the time, for several centuries, and they taught that you were to honor and respect those above you (not necessarily if they were evil of course) and it worked well for them, God made people different, and they taught that he was a God of order.
That's the wiliness of communists, they overturn order, like the french revolution and Russian. They are evil.
My quote might not have bolstered that position, at first glance I thought it did.
Sigh. Why is life so complex...
Ok! Maybe your 2 thingies work together. What I mean is. Caste system yes, but USA never had a formalized caste system with nobility, king and pope etc?
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