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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
For a dead guy, he sure gets around
After invoking the ghost of Thomas Jefferson yesterday, I'm tickled to see him pop up in similar contexts today. First, over at This Modern World:
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, tho not the most wise depository of the public interests.
In this case, Jonathon Schwartz makes Jefferson a Kos-onian blogger. On the other hand, we have The Daily Howler quoting Joe Scarborough invoking Jefferson the small-government Republican:
This is a fight, not just between Republicans and Democrats, not just between the New York Times and George Bush, but it`s a fight between conservative Republicans who believe in limited government  those Jeffersonian Republicans  and establishment Republicans that want to give this administration whatever they ask for.
The only consistent rule I can find is that Jefferson is always right -- and Jefferson is always on the invoker's side.
1 Comments:
The problem is with how people APPLY Jefferson, not what he is saying.
For some people, Jefferson saying that "the power should be with the people", and things along those lines, seems anti-Republican today. But that's only because they are basing their opinion on the Republican platform on misinformation and a wrongful perception.
The true Conservative platform is a very populist, freedom-loving, and Jeffersonian thing.
Jefferson's ideas here are not contradictory at all - it's the person perceving them through how they think of something today - often something they don't understand very well.
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