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How the U.S. Stole Mexico
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How the U.S. Stole Mexico

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Re: How the U.S. Stole Mexico
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2022, 08:39:49 pm »
Our enemies claim Calhoun as one of them; I agree:

https://www.amren.com/blog/2022/05/the-conquest-of-mexico-john-calhoun/

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The next reason which my resolutions assign, is, that it is without example or precedent, wither to hold Mexico as a province, or to incorporate her into our Union. No example of such a line of policy can be found. We have conquered many of the neighboring tribes of Indians, but we have never thought of holding them in subjection — never of incorporating them into our Union. They have either been left as an independent people amongst us, or been driven into the forests.

I know further, sir, that we have never dreamt of incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race — the free white race. To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first instance of the kind of incorporating an Indian race; for more than half of the Mexicans are Indians, and the other is composed chiefly of mixed tribes. I protest against such a union as that! Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race. The greatest misfortunes of Spanish America are to be traced to the fatal error of placing these colored races on an equality with the white race. That error destroyed the social arrangement which formed the basis of society. The Portuguese and ourselves have escaped — the Portuguese at least to some extent — and we are the only people on this continent which have made revolutions without being followed by anarchy. And yet it is professed and talked about to erect these Mexicans into a Territorial Government, and place them on an equality with the people of the United States. I protest utterly against such a project.

Sir, it is a remarkable fact, that in the whole history of man, as far as my knowledge extends, there is no instance whatever of any civilized colored races being found equal to the establishment of free popular government, although by far the largest portion of the human family is composed of these races.
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suppose these people attached to our Union, and desirous of incorporating with us, ought we to bring them in? Are they fit to be connected with us? Are they fit for self-government and for governing you? Are you, any of you, willing that your States should be governed by these twenty-odd Mexican States, with a population of about only one million of your blood, and two or three millions of mixed blood, better informed, all the rest pure Indians

Hence:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/trumpism-is-an-echo/

Also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/western-democracy/msg9997/?topicseen#msg9997

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strictly speaking, rightists do not want to replace democracy, but rather to end universal suffrage and hence return to what can accurately be called traditional democracy

Rightists are the true democrats in that they still hold to the original definition of the demos. False Leftists, who favour non-demos people voting also, would be more accurately labelled as suffragists. Suffragism is thus a way to undermine (traditional) democracy without abandoning elections. Of course True Leftists differ from False Leftists in that we would prefer to openly defeat democracy by ending elections altogether. Nevertheless, until we succeed in ending elections, we of course pragmatically prefer suffragism over (traditional) democracy, which is why we support:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/demographic-blueshift/
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Re: How the U.S. Stole Mexico
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2022, 06:22:28 pm »
Our enemies elaborate:

https://www.amren.com/news/2022/11/robert-w-merry-a-country-of-vast-designs-james-k-polk/

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as this book shows, there was a great deal of opposition to “Manifest Destiny.” Ordinary Americans were thrilled at the idea of expansion, but many politicians were not. The Whig leader Henry Clay, for example, wanted to keep the American population east of the Rockies, and had no interest in settling Oregon. He was also afraid to absorb Texas: “Annexation and war with Mexico are identical.”

Daniel Webster, another Whig, called Polk’s war not just “a clear violation of duty” but “an impeachable offense.” He considered it an act of naked aggression for which there was no Constitutional authority, and led the fight not to vote funds for the war. He wanted no new, lightly inhabited territories far from Washington. The rising Whig politician Abraham Lincoln also condemned the war.

Hence:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/plebian-hubris/