The Right is "growing a pair" as they say . . . . . . . I own a small political blog. Here is an introduction, of sorts, to a cut and paste copy from Wikipedia on Manifest Destiny and the evils it pushed onto the American Indian population and more. I mention this, because "Manifest Destiny" is often one of the complaints of the anti-American cabal that is in leadership, today. I have eliminated the title of my blog, because this is not about an advertising stunt, it is about the truth of what is written. See what you think.
From the intro: "I find it interesting that the history Democrats complain about most, slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow laws, American imperialism, and, Manifest Destiny, were all the creation of Democrats to the exclusion of Republicans. How this bunch of hypocrites managed to rewrite history on all of this in the ensuing years beginning with the 1960's, is beyond me, but the facts are the fact.
I watched the Fox News program, Kit Carson, over the weekend, 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 x x x x x x ~ editor, John Smtihson.
From Wiki on "Manifest Destiny" :
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] . . . . . . (and the article continues)
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