12 January 2014
When I speak of rejecting 'America' (which is something very
different from the South) I have in mind a specific idea and the political
vision and reality that comes from that idea. The quote below from Dr Cheek
sums it up very well from an historical perspective. Notice when you read this
how well it describes the ideology of all acceptable and 'respectable' US
politics: the Neo-cons (for sure!), the Progressives and the mainstream
conservatives. Sadly, we see that today most
Southerners have accepted an alien, New England view of 'America' that Dr Cheek
describes in the second paragraph below. It is my hope that their demographic
displacement and the subsequent transformation of 'America' into a Third World
nightmare will lead many if not most of our people to ultimately re-think the
'city on a hill'. Check out the passage below:
'All aspects of the American political, religious, and social experience, as well as the resulting vision for politics, are usually attributed to Puritan New England. The historian Sydney Ahlstrom argues that the "Puritan ethic" of legalistic moral strictures, and a doctrine of labor as serving and pleasing God, became the American ethnic. And in the hands of the Puritan divines, the "ethic" became incorporated into their understanding of politics, nourishing New England political thought and influencing the Founding generation by providing a way of understanding the unique nature of the American political experience. The contribution of John Winthrop and Roger Williams, among others, remains important in the development, even though the early interpreters were supplanted by others who offered the prospect of refinement.
The consummation of the New England experience was the development of a civil theology based upon the special status of the American regime. America was regarded as the "New Israel".... America's situation in the pantheon of world political history was understood as unequaled. The regime was special, a providential gift offered to the world, a city on a hill, a light amidst the darkness of political despotism.'
-H. Lee Cheek, Jr. 'Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and the Discourse,' page 3
'All aspects of the American political, religious, and social experience, as well as the resulting vision for politics, are usually attributed to Puritan New England. The historian Sydney Ahlstrom argues that the "Puritan ethic" of legalistic moral strictures, and a doctrine of labor as serving and pleasing God, became the American ethnic. And in the hands of the Puritan divines, the "ethic" became incorporated into their understanding of politics, nourishing New England political thought and influencing the Founding generation by providing a way of understanding the unique nature of the American political experience. The contribution of John Winthrop and Roger Williams, among others, remains important in the development, even though the early interpreters were supplanted by others who offered the prospect of refinement.
The consummation of the New England experience was the development of a civil theology based upon the special status of the American regime. America was regarded as the "New Israel".... America's situation in the pantheon of world political history was understood as unequaled. The regime was special, a providential gift offered to the world, a city on a hill, a light amidst the darkness of political despotism.'
-H. Lee Cheek, Jr. 'Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and the Discourse,' page 3
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