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How the U.S. Stole Mexico
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 10, 2021, 10:20 pm
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How the U.S. Stole Mexico
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Re: How the U.S. Stole Mexico
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 30, 2022, 8:39 pm
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Our enemies claim Calhoun as one of them; I agree:
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> The next reason which my resolutions assign, is, that it is
without example or precedent, wither to hold Mexico as a
province, or to incorporate her into our Union. No example of
such a line of policy can be found. We have conquered many of
the neighboring tribes of Indians, but we have never thought of
holding them in subjection — never of incorporating them into
our Union. They have either been left as an independent people
amongst us, or been driven into the forests.
>
> I know further, sir, that we have never dreamt of
incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race — the
free white race. To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first
instance of the kind of incorporating an Indian race; for more
than half of the Mexicans are Indians, and the other is composed
chiefly of mixed tribes. I protest against such a union as that!
Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race. The greatest
misfortunes of Spanish America are to be traced to the fatal
error of placing these colored races on an equality with the
white race. That error destroyed the social arrangement which
formed the basis of society. The Portuguese and ourselves have
escaped — the Portuguese at least to some extent — and we are
the only people on this continent which have made revolutions
without being followed by anarchy. And yet it is professed and
talked about to erect these Mexicans into a Territorial
Government, and place them on an equality with the people of the
United States. I protest utterly against such a project.
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> Sir, it is a remarkable fact, that in the whole history of
man, as far as my knowledge extends, there is no instance
whatever of any civilized colored races being found equal to the
establishment of free popular government, although by far the
largest portion of the human family is composed of these races.
> ...
> suppose these people attached to our Union, and desirous of
incorporating with us, ought we to bring them in? Are they fit
to be connected with us? Are they fit for self-government and
for governing you? Are you, any of you, willing that your States
should be governed by these twenty-odd Mexican States, with a
population of about only one million of your blood, and two or
three millions of mixed blood, better informed, all the rest
pure Indians
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Hence:
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Also:
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> strictly speaking, rightists do not want to replace democracy,
but rather to end universal suffrage and hence return to what
can accurately be called traditional democracy
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Rightists are the true democrats in that they still hold to the
original definition of the demos. False Leftists, who favour
non-demos people voting also, would be more accurately labelled
as suffragists. Suffragism is thus a way to undermine
(traditional) democracy without abandoning elections. Of course
True Leftists differ from False Leftists in that we would prefer
to openly defeat democracy by ending elections altogether.
Nevertheless, until we succeed in ending elections, we of course
pragmatically prefer suffragism over (traditional) democracy,
which is why we support:
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Re: How the U.S. Stole Mexico
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 2, 2022, 6:22 pm
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Our enemies elaborate:
HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2022/11/robert-w-merry-a-country-of-vast-designs-james-k-polk/
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> as this book shows, there was a great deal of opposition to
“Manifest Destiny.” Ordinary Americans were thrilled at the idea
of expansion, but many politicians were not. The Whig leader
Henry Clay, for example, wanted to keep the American population
east of the Rockies, and had no interest in settling Oregon. He
was also afraid to absorb Texas: “Annexation and war with Mexico
are identical.”
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> Daniel Webster, another Whig, called Polk’s war not just “a
clear violation of duty” but “an impeachable offense.” He
considered it an act of naked aggression for which there was no
Constitutional authority, and led the fight not to vote funds
for the war. He wanted no new, lightly inhabited territories far
from Washington. The rising Whig politician Abraham Lincoln also
condemned the war.
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Hence:
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Re: How the U.S. Stole Mexico
DIR By: rp
Date: June 11, 2025, 5:18 am
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This is not something worth celebrating:
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Out: Native American land acknowledgements.
In: Conquistador land acknowledgements.
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ohhh katy perry i knew you’re the real one
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