Something else that I don't see here is that Hamilton is a woke relitigation of the original settler contradiction between northern industry and finance and Jeffersonian/southern yeomanry/plantations. In order to become a power, the u.s. had to build its settler economy in the vein of old Britain. That meant financing the government at debt to corporate and financial interests. The other option was the idea of small white landowners. Both of these interests needed each other, but the Federalists had to win. That is the Hamiltonian victory: Washington essentially agreed and laid out that course in everything but name. Of course, the political can of not favoring slavery got kicked down the road for almost 100 years. I think that's what libs want. They want to feel woke and good about the clash of genocidal self-interests that started the u.s. and if they tell that story with poc rappers, they can elide the brutal African and Indigenous genocide of it all without claiming those things were good, like neoconfederate southerners.
They want to feel woke and good about the clash of genocidal self-interests that started the u.s.
Yep. And they also wanted to feel like their generation (millenials + gen X) had finally "solved" or "fixed" racism by electing Obama and having more B.I.P.O.C. drone pilots/CEOs/overpaid pretentious actors etc.
This isn't something unique to Libs though, and in fact chuds do it more.
White Jesus, White Aryans, White Native Americans (we wuz solutreans n shiet) are all the same thing as Hamilton, they've just been repeated for so long that nobody even thinks twice about them (other than the white Native Americans bit, that one isn't really mainstream)
Chuds pretend the past is white in order to bolster their racial morale
Libs pretend the past is non-white in order to bolster their national morale
Something else that I don't see here is that Hamilton is a woke relitigation of the original settler contradiction between northern industry and finance and Jeffersonian/southern yeomanry/plantations. In order to become a power, the u.s. had to build its settler economy in the vein of old Britain. That meant financing the government at debt to corporate and financial interests. The other option was the idea of small white landowners. Both of these interests needed each other, but the Federalists had to win. That is the Hamiltonian victory: Washington essentially agreed and laid out that course in everything but name. Of course, the political can of not favoring slavery got kicked down the road for almost 100 years. I think that's what libs want. They want to feel woke and good about the clash of genocidal self-interests that started the u.s. and if they tell that story with poc rappers, they can elide the brutal African and Indigenous genocide of it all without claiming those things were good, like neoconfederate southerners.
Yep. And they also wanted to feel like their generation (millenials + gen X) had finally "solved" or "fixed" racism by electing Obama and having more B.I.P.O.C. drone pilots/CEOs/overpaid pretentious actors etc.
Obama was the one who originally made Lin Manuel Maranda popular, and Hamilton is the Obama of musicals.
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This isn't something unique to Libs though, and in fact chuds do it more.
White Jesus, White Aryans, White Native Americans (we wuz solutreans n shiet) are all the same thing as Hamilton, they've just been repeated for so long that nobody even thinks twice about them (other than the white Native Americans bit, that one isn't really mainstream)
Chuds pretend the past is white in order to bolster their racial morale
Libs pretend the past is non-white in order to bolster their national morale