Torie
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« on: May 16, 2015, 10:29:59 AM » |
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Since the years when I was at about the median age of Forumites, Andy Jackson's fall from grace has been the most precipitous of any POTUS. Back then he was romanticized as a man of the people, a populist, a foe of the predatory banks, the end of aristocratic governance, lionized along with Jefferson by the Democrats in the Jefferson-Jackson speech day, and now he's viewed as a vicious racist, who kicked the Native Americans out of their ancestral homelands, on the trail of tears to make the deep south safe for slavery, reckless with finances, and corrupted and worsened politics, and was a war monger who loved guts and blood to boot.
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