I thought I’d leave this here. Why doesn’t this surprise me?
Via @ daveryder on X/Twitter:
“Here's William Jones who authored the 1864 Arizona abortion bill.
Some fun facts:
He abandoned his first wife and their children in Missouri.
His second wife was a 12 year old Mexican girl. He abducted her and after a complaint submitted his resignation to President Buchanan before he was fired.
In 1864 (age 49) he married his 3rd wife, a 15 year old girl he abandoned in 1865 when he moved to Hawaii.
This is the guy who wrote the law that millions of Arizona women will be forced to obey.
His life is a series of grifts, and he was known for being a "pursuer of nubile females".”
I had thoughts about Republicans after hearing them talking about how they represent the “real America”, as those who started this country meant it to be.
To me, America is a Democracy (in progress) with an ever-growing process of immigrants coming in, starting small, and gradually moving upwards in the socioeconomic hierarchy, as we work towards a country that is better for all.
Then I read the following quote from a book by Ilona Andrews and thought about America’s core.
“A ‘better world’ bought by atrocities will be rotten at the core.”
It came to me that those Republicans were absolutely right. They DO represent the original Americans.
The original Americans were White men of European ancestry who lied, cheated, stole, and murdered countless indigenous peoples in order to have access to this land.
THEY are the rotten core of America. They felt then and now that “might makes right.”
The wealthy Aristos and wealthy upper class businessmen began the early “progress” by sending explorers, then chasing boatloads of people away from their homelands due to their unfair treatment of the poor and working class, and then eventually sending people to establish industries and create a railway across the country. They funded a supply chain of slave labor and used those slaves in horrific ways. They hired and abused Asian laborers. They used child labor. Also, unlike the spiritual practices of the indigenous peoples they destroyed, the “real Americans” Bibles made little mention of the natural world and of humans seeking harmony with it, and so nature too was conquered and destroyed by the progress of each generation of “real Americans”.
This is why William Jones seems so similar in nature to the people currently running the Republican Party. Jones, like others before him carry “rotten core of America” DNA. Since that DNA keeps finding success, it remains a part of us.
I thought I’d leave this here. Why doesn’t this surprise me?
Via @ daveryder on X/Twitter:
“Here's William Jones who authored the 1864 Arizona abortion bill.
Some fun facts:
He abandoned his first wife and their children in Missouri.
His second wife was a 12 year old Mexican girl. He abducted her and after a complaint submitted his resignation to President Buchanan before he was fired.
In 1864 (age 49) he married his 3rd wife, a 15 year old girl he abandoned in 1865 when he moved to Hawaii.
This is the guy who wrote the law that millions of Arizona women will be forced to obey.
His life is a series of grifts, and he was known for being a "pursuer of nubile females".”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Claude_Jones
Incredible. Was Jones related to Trump?
That wouldn’t surprise me either.
**Ramble Alert**
I had thoughts about Republicans after hearing them talking about how they represent the “real America”, as those who started this country meant it to be.
To me, America is a Democracy (in progress) with an ever-growing process of immigrants coming in, starting small, and gradually moving upwards in the socioeconomic hierarchy, as we work towards a country that is better for all.
Then I read the following quote from a book by Ilona Andrews and thought about America’s core.
“A ‘better world’ bought by atrocities will be rotten at the core.”
It came to me that those Republicans were absolutely right. They DO represent the original Americans.
The original Americans were White men of European ancestry who lied, cheated, stole, and murdered countless indigenous peoples in order to have access to this land.
THEY are the rotten core of America. They felt then and now that “might makes right.”
The wealthy Aristos and wealthy upper class businessmen began the early “progress” by sending explorers, then chasing boatloads of people away from their homelands due to their unfair treatment of the poor and working class, and then eventually sending people to establish industries and create a railway across the country. They funded a supply chain of slave labor and used those slaves in horrific ways. They hired and abused Asian laborers. They used child labor. Also, unlike the spiritual practices of the indigenous peoples they destroyed, the “real Americans” Bibles made little mention of the natural world and of humans seeking harmony with it, and so nature too was conquered and destroyed by the progress of each generation of “real Americans”.
This is why William Jones seems so similar in nature to the people currently running the Republican Party. Jones, like others before him carry “rotten core of America” DNA. Since that DNA keeps finding success, it remains a part of us.