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The Founding Father Who Foresaw MAGA

Monday, September 2, 2019 19:17

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“The Founding Father Who Foresaw MAGA”

by David Stockman

You and I, ought not to die, before We have explained ourselves to each other.

- John Adams, “Letter to Thomas Jefferson” (July 15, 1813)

“It’s become tradition here at Deep State Declassified to celebrate holidays by recalling wise words of days gone by appropriate for the occasion observed. Today, of course, is Labor Day. We’d have to fill in the details of our maturation from agrarian to post-industrial economy. But something the folks who put together this grand experiment in self-governance we still call the United States of America would grasp immediately is the veneration of work.

We can guess how the founders of the nation and the framers of the Constitution would view modern labor unions. And we can actually read of their skepticism of corporations, which were then, in the British tradition, firmly tied to state power. Even in the late 18th century, though, people had a pretty good grip on the nuances of various types of associations.

There was then, as there is now, a general acceptance of the view that “freedom of association” is a positive when it comes to forming a civil society, subject to limits, of course, defined by the common good. What they worried about – most specifically the founders and the framers – was unchecked power. That happens with the accumulation of capital and the creation of classes of bankers, for example, or cotton producers, or railroad barons… or bankers. They worried about things like this:

“John Adams, infamous for seeming to endorse the idea of an American-style “king,” took pains to point out that his “first magistrate” would be elected by the people – answerable directly to them. That would make him their protector against permanent class of elites wholly owned by moneyed classes.”

Here’s how Joseph Ellis framed one part of the famous post-retirement correspondence between Adams and Thomas Jefferson in “American Dialogue: The Founders and Us”: “No Romance could be more amusing,” he chided Jefferson, than his belief that the United States would prove the exception to the dominant pattern of economic inequality throughout recorded history, as if human nature itself had been magically transformed in the migration from Europe to America. “After all,” he observed, “as long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families… I repeat, so long as the Idea and existence of PROPERTY is admitted and established in Society, accumulations of it will be made, the Snow ball will grow as it rolls.”

Adams was concerned about such “accumulations” and their tendency to oligarchy from the very beginning of the republic. While on diplomatic assignment in England during its literal formative years, he wrote “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America.” “In every society known to man,” Adams noted, “an aristocracy has risen up in the course of time, consisting of a few rich and honorable families who have united with each other against both the people and the first magistrate.”

He later wrote “Discourses on Davila”, in 1790, to explain the accumulation of wealth by American elites and their display of it: “Riches force the opinion on man that he is the object of the congratulations of others. His imagination expands, and his heart dilates at these charming illusions. His attachment to his possessions increases as fast as his desire to accumulate more; not for the purposes of utility, but from the desire of illustration.”

His primary disagreement with Jefferson boiled down to this: “You are afraid of the one, I, the few.” The Duopoly would have you against the Donald right now. John Adams would have you against the Duopoly. And the Duopoly – not the Donald – is primarily responsible for that “The Top 1% Continue to Covet the Wealth” graphic.”

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