JUST PASSED... INFLATION REDUCTION ACT OF 2022: THE $700 BILLION DOLLAR RIPOFF / WHERE IS ANDREW JACKSON "OLD HICKORY"?
Vol. II | Issue. 108 | August 8, 2022
No watershed event in American Presidential Politics illustrates the battle for America's political HEART and SOUL more than the Election of Andrew Jackson as America's 7th President in 1828.
The first 6 U.S. Presidents were either from Virginia’s slave-owning aristocracy or Massachusett’s Political “Elite”. The Ivy League-educated “Elite”, namely John Adams and his son, John Quincy Adams, studied at Harvard, while the Virginians, with the exception of Washington and Madison, were educated at the College of William and Mary. James Madison, a Virginian, somehow made his way to Princeton, which was then the College of New Jersey, and George Washington earned his stripes with no formal education, but by beating the Brits.
Until Jackson, that was it… The Ivy League-educated “Elite”, Washington in a class by himself, and the Virginians, who went to the College of William and Mary which I suppose was "The Harvard of the South”.
…Then came Andrew Jackson.
Jackson was born in the Pre-Revolutionary Carolinas and was a Hero of the War of 1812, but Andrew became a National Hero after defeating the British at the Battle of New Orleans. He was Florida’s First Territorial Governor, Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, and dispensed 2000 pounds worth of cheese to the people on the lawn of the "Executive Mansion” at his first Presidential Inauguration.
Jackson was in fact a slaveholder and died a wealthy man at his beloved Hermitage, but there was a difference between Jackson and those who served before him as President.
He was self-made, not the heir to a landed fortune or member of any “Elite” social strata.
Jackson made his own way in the world, and his appeal and political gravity were focused on "the common man".
By the time of Jackson’s election, there had been a de facto precedent and understanding that regardless of who the person was, there would always be a direct line of succession from “Elite” to “Elite”. In other words, The President of the United States would always be "one of us", meaning a member of the Massachusetts/Virginia Mafia. No doubt, they would have been happy with an occasional New Yorker if they had good manners and went to the right schools.
However, Jackson had neither good manners nor went to any school, except for the school of hard knocks. Even with his extraordinary accomplishments, abilities, and gargantuan flaws, Andrew considered himself a striving commoner.
Jackson’s greatest focus was on keeping the Union together and ridding early America of, what he considered to be, the rotten and corrupt influence of urban “elitist” indifference toward the common everyday citizen.
Jackson first ran for President in 1824 against John Quincy Adams and won a plurality of the popular and electoral vote, but not enough electoral votes to take him over the top. The election was sent to the House of Representatives and they elected John Quincy Adams.
Jackson ran against Adams again in 1828 and won in a landslide. His first crisis in office was the threatened succession of South Carolina, over the so-called "Tariff of Abominations", which set huge taxes on certain imported goods that had a devasting impact on the Southern economy.
Jackson’s most passionate and enduring battle was his unrelenting advocacy for the Destruction of the Second Bank of the United States, originally founded in 1791 by George Washington and Alexander Hamilton.
At the time, the First Bank of the United States was depositing all U.S. Funds in the First Bank, starving smaller State Banks of the funds that they needed to grow their economies more fairly and without the potential for graft and an unfair advantage over those with “elite” positions and connections.
The election of Andrew Jackson to the Presidency embedded in the American culture and psyche that, regardless of a humble origin, ANYONE in America had the potential to be ELECTED TO THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE LAND.
Jackson was a force of nature whose passion and determination had beaten the "Elites” at tier own game. Jackson’s Presidential victories made clear to the “Elite” of his day that ignoring the interests of the "common man" would be at the political peril of those doing the ignoring.
That passion and understanding no longer exist amongst anyone purporting to represent the interests of America or Americans. The “Elite” of today exists in an even more potent form with more dangerous functions than they did in the early days of our Republic. The “Elites” of today are no longer seeking to shape a National Agenda while pushing their best efforts to make America GREAT, STRONG, and INDEPENDENT. They are the "globalists” whose agenda is to make America a cog in the wheel of a New World Order, set at Davos, with the approval of the Chinese.
Unlike “Old Hickory”, whose unbendable strength tried to make America strong, the “Elites” of today, who follow the “Religion of the Left”, will lead to the destruction of The American Way, and care nothing for this Country…
What about the Republicans?!
Sadly, very few of them ACT, or VOTE, as if they have ever heard of “Old Hickory”.
-Emes