Thursday, May 11, 2006

"The Poor and the Working Class"

Just thought I'd post the words at the top of the LP Chairman Blog. If the Indiana LP was at one time elitist, it has now been taken over by Jeffersonians. It IS the opposition party. (See post on Corporate Whores)



State Chairman's Report
A Proud Libertarian State Chairman's Postings on the Exciting Progress and Success of the Libertarian Party of Indiana, Defenders of Small Business, the Poor and the Working Class


Chairman Blog

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like the picture.

Jeffersonian is a very positive statement.

First, the elitist, royalist, forces were very tricky. They took the name Federalist when everyone wanted a federal government even though the Federalists wanted a national government. After Jefferson won in 1800 we did go to a federal government by "We the People."

After Madison's terms came the "Era of Good Feelings" where the only party was Jefferson's Republican or Democrat-Republican Party soon to be the Democrats under Jackson.

The tricky elitists then chose the Whig Party as opposition. In England the Whigs were the liberals for rights and against the crown. (the good guys or libertarians) Here the Whigs were for the "American System" which was called Mercantilism under the Federalists and is corporatism or corporate welfare today. (The Jeffersonians - often aligned with the French were for laisez faire - markets free from government interference. They also supported the Bill of Rights and balanced budgets.) See February 07,2006 posting here titled "Two Parties".

The Whigs dissolved and became the Republicans. Lincoln of course was an ex-Whig Congressman. The War Between the States was much about taking money from the South to support railroads in the North. (Lincoln was a railroad lawyer.)

After Cleveland there were no more Democrat Presidents. Warmonger Wilson wouldn't even go to Cleveland's funeral.

Big corporations paid for monopolistic laws and courts that took away rights of the Citizens. (and "gave" corporations rights) This included the Federal Reserve scheme to steal money from the non-elite. (1913)

Then you had socialists vs elitists. Billed as poor vs rich. Eric Schansberg (LPIN candidate in IN US Congress ninth) has correctly pointed out that these good intentions (by socialists) have actually hurt the poor and working class.

Today's historians lean royalist. They give Adams, Hamilton, Jay, and others points for being against slavery. They weren't against slavery so much as they were for an equality of slavery. I.E. slavery for the black and whites. (Except of course for the elitists.)

The Federalist - Whig - Republican line has no real opposition today. Today's Democrat leans slightly more towards the poor than the corporatist Republicans but they both feed on the same corruption and corporations.

The point of my post was that for those who think of the Libertarians as Republicans for the rich or corporations or Democrats who really believe in rights, these folks are incorrect. Libertarians are today's version of Jefferson; for rights, free trade, limited government, and federalism (states rights).

Jefferson was known as being an agrarian, for the common farmer. I am glad to see that the Libertarian Party is taking on the position of being for small business and the common worker.

Anonymous said...

Thanks J. A.

Your question made me pick up my Davy Crockett book. I had to answer the question that I thought about but was unsure since I hadn't read the book in years.

I recalled him being a Whig but would "eat any man" who spoke bad about Jackson.

The book explains the National Republican Party split in 1834 into Whigs and Democrats. It explains Crockett was often called the dupe of the Whigs. Davy's last term was 33 - 35.

Davy may have been taken in because the Whigs were for liberty in Britian.

Anonymous said...

Is this poor and working class you speak of, Americans poor working class. Or your Libertarian open borders poor workers from all around the world.