the machine chapter 1

[rampart]

Why am I a Democrat?

After my confirmation my father brought me to a large smokey bar. There were a few other boys. No girls. No women. No Blacks.

The men bought we boys ice cold draft Dixie beer in frozen schooners. I met 2 mayors and Earl Long.

We are the machine. We have been making cities run, as safely and efficiently as technology allows for millennia.

Things might be different in the hinterlands. I had a decade in "Green Acres." You have machines as well. Civilization brings discontent, according to Freud.

Chapter 2

" A preference for regularly scheduled trains is not exclusive to Fascists."

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Not all fascists are violent, but they are all political gangsters.

The Longs were fascists, and were very good at that.

 

[rampart]

Not all fascists are violent, but they are all political gangsters.

The Longs were fascists, and were very good at that.

they were certainly populists. earl may have been the most colorful character ever to govern a state. "who shot huey " was a popular conspiracy theory in the pre jfk world.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

An amazing state history of fascism in control.

 

[rampart]

An amazing state history of fascism in control.

quite. but the legacy of our "left of new deal" populism was the entire modern infrastructure of a 20th century state.

the lsu system is top notch, charity hospitals, the pre-jindal schools (now, ya wanna talk fascist. jindal was a proto desantis and the new guy is worse.))

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

quite. but the legacy of our "left of new deal" populism was the entire modern infrastructure of a 20th century state.

the lsu system is top notch, charity hospitals, the pre-jindal schools (now, ya wanna talk fascist. jindal was a proto desantis and the new guy is worse.))

Those pupils of Harry Williams populated mid-level state universities for up to 40 years of wonderful history instruction and writings.

 

[rampart]

Those pupils of Harry Williams populated mid-level state universities for up to 40 years of wonderful history instruction and writings.

this guy? i read his book on the civil war long ago. didn't know that he wrote one on general beauregard.

"must learn more. "


Thomas Harry Williams (May 19, 1909 — July 8, 1979) was an American historian and author. For the majority of his academic career between the 1930s to 1970s, Williams taught history at Louisiana State University. While at LSU, Williams was a Boyd Professor of History from 1953 to 1979. Near the end of his tenure at LSU, the university created the T. Harry Williams Chair of American History. He also taught at extension schools in Wisconsin and at the Municipal University of Omaha.

why do you think no one called huey long a communist socialist marxist? "a chicken in every pot " would get bernie sanders deported to havana.

populist : comparison and contrast

a populist rouses the rabble
with "every man a king"
trump panders to the deplorables
with "make me king."

rampart 2024

sorry john edgar, but i love louisiana politics and history. i know this subthread had gone astray of whatever the op was.

this year

 

[whitehall]

"Machine" to democrats. Constitutional government to everyone else.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

this guy? i read his book on the civil war long ago. didn't know that he wrote one on general beauregard.

"must learn more. "


Thomas Harry Williams (May 19, 1909 — July 8, 1979) was an American historian and author. For the majority of his academic career between the 1930s to 1970s, Williams taught history at Louisiana State University. While at LSU, Williams was a Boyd Professor of History from 1953 to 1979. Near the end of his tenure at LSU, the university created the T. Harry Williams Chair of American History. He also taught at extension schools in Wisconsin and at the Municipal University of Omaha.

why do you think no one called huey long a communist socialist marxist? "a chicken in every pot " would get bernie sanders deported to havana.

populist : comparison and contrast

a populist rouses the rabble
with "every man a king"
trump panders to the deplorables
with "make me king."

rampart 2024

sorry john edgar, but i love louisiana politics and history. i know this subthread had gone astray of whatever the op was.

this year

I am not worried about where the threat went. T. Harry Williams was such an incredible influence on the teaching of American history.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Why am I a Democrat?

Prevailing theory has it that you're hopelessly retarded.

I happen to be a believer.

 

[rampart]

"Machine" to democrats. Constitutional government to everyone else.

a city is a machine, constitutional or not.

if OUR constitution can be twisted into the original intent of fictional founders based on "traditions and practices" of a time when "divine right of kings" was considered traditional, that interpretation is simply wrong.

rant over. hope that was the direction you were headed. art 1 sec 8? the enumeration thing?