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I watched the Fox News program, Kit Carson, today, and was startled to see the sad role that Manifest Destiny played in the conquest of the Western United States. The following was taken from Wikipedia, hardly a conservative outpost, and, adds to the history of the once, imperialistic/racist collective, that was the Democrat Party through the 1960's. I don't mention this to blame Dems for the past, but, if they think they can turn the tables and blame the GOP for that which they created, well, that is not going to happen here, at Midknight Review ~ editor, John Smtihson.
Historians have emphasized that "Manifest Destiny" was a contested concept—Democrats endorsed the idea but many prominent Americans (such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and most Whigs) rejected it. Historian Daniel Walker Howe writes, "American imperialism did not represent an American consensus; it provoked bitter dissent within the national polity.... Whigs saw America's moral mission as one of democratic example rather than one of conquest."[4]
Newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined the term Manifest Destiny in 1845 to describe the essence of this mindset which was a rhetorical tone.[5] It was used by Democrats in the 1840s to justify the war with Mexico and it was also used to divide half of Oregon with the United Kingdom. But Manifest Destiny always limped along because of its internal limitations and the issue of slavery, says Merk. It never became a national priority. By 1843 John Quincy Adams, originally a major supporter, had changed his mind and repudiated Manifest Destiny because it meant the expansion of slavery in Texas.[6]
Merk concludes:
- From the outset Manifest Destiny—vast in program, in its sense of continentalism—was slight in support. It lacked national, sectional, or party following commensurate with its magnitude. The reason was it did not reflect the national spirit. The thesis that it embodied nationalism, found in much historical writing, is backed by little real supporting evidence.[7]
Yet it's the conservatives of today that continue on the policies of racism, christian entitlement, and a never ending push to force religion into our laws, government and schools.
ReplyDeleteOur laws came from the divine side, so your complaint is about 236 years too late. Try to keep up. Secondly, your anti- American policies and overt rejection of God in the Democrat platform, drove the radical Right over to our side of the aisle. YOU are to blame for that. We don't want them in our party and they have no place in national leadership . . . . none whatsoever. Christian entitlement. What the hell are you talking about? Treating Christianity as if it was as much a threat to our nation as al Quada or Occupy or the blacks gangs (Democrats all) that are burning our cities to the ground and killing our cops -- well, that's your side of the aisle. There is nothining even similar to the organized violence of the Black Pathers, Occupay, eco-terroists,, the union thugs in the AFL-CIO, the teacher unions who have organized law enforcement unions to threaten violence on conservative in Wisconsin. So,, drop dead with you rhetorical crap. It is all a lie.. It is ALL borne of Socialist Progressive terror policy used to take over the nation . . . . that is what they are trying to do.
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