Adams could NEVER for see the crap that controls our schools today. Scum like that did not exist in Adam's day. Obama could not have even be imagined. Neither could Reagan
You think 18th century politics was devoid of scum? BWWWAAAHHHAAA!!!! There was back-stabbing, scheming and conniving by nearly everyone in politics that puts today's lame politics to shame. Politics at the time of the Constitution and the first presidency was not determined by political parties, but by political and public alliances. These alliances were usually built around one person or a small group of people who were lobbying for support among their peers. And it was a breeding ground for scummy. Washington decided to throw in the towel after two terms because of the scum of scheming politics. In his farewell address he warned of coalescing into political parties, because he knew it was coming.
The beginning of a political party system started quickly enough, with the strong polarized opposition of Thomas Jefferson to Alexander Hamilton, forcing politicians to support one side or another. Hamilton was a Federalist who was in support for strong, near-iron-fisted, centralized governmental control. Hamilton's scummy began as President Washington's Secretary of Treasury, who took on the responsibility of creating an economic policy plan America could use to erase the national debt it had garnered during the American Revolution. That involved heavy taxes and a strong central federal bank, subsidies and tariffs that would protect American businesses, but did little in the way of supporting the farming lifestyle of many southern states, which also planted the seeds of the industrial North against the agrarian South that would cause problems in less than a century. His scummy continued while he worked behind the scenes to cut John Adams off at the knees. The Democratic-Republican Party, organized by James Madison in Congress, arose to stand in opposition to the Federalists.
The press was little more than tools of political parties. Paranoia was the order of the day within the minds of Americans, especially during the early days of the republic, when confidence in the new American government and its democratic institutions was still weak. Fears of a collapse into tyranny, radicalism, or monarchy ran rampant among the populace, fueled by sensationalist news media controlled by competing political agendas. The whole press was essentially scandal mongers, fed information to print by each politician's rivals.
The newspaper owned by Benjamin Franklin's grandson accused Washington of conspiring with the British during the war. John Adams was frequently charged with setting up a new monarchy with himself installed as king. Rivals of Thomas Jefferson let it be known that as president he would ban Christianity and arrest all Christians. "All Bibles would be burned, all churches would be torn down, altars would be erected to the goddess of reason, anyone who believed in Christianity would go to the guillotine."
The next century saw anti-Mason groups accuse presidents like Andrew Jackson of secret loyalties while anti-Catholic parties alleged conspiracies to carry out the pope's orders through sleeper agents in the White House.
Clinton ordered Vince Foster murdered, John Kerry would ban the Bible of elected, Obama is a Muslim, and illiterate "C" student George Bush was the brilliant mastermind behind 911. Like the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun.
The PEOPLE should have 100% control over the property they earn, wages included. That does NOT exist today. I have NO say on how the money that is extorted from me for education is spent. (more than $900 PER YEAR to produce illiterate heroin addicts, and Obama bums)
You do have a say, but you have to go before the school board and say it. (along with the illiterate heroin addicts and Obama bums, that $900 also produces law-abiding, hard working, duck hunting conservatives)
