http://takimag.com/article/alexander_hamilton_honorary_nonwhite_steve_sailer#axzz3yuEsUWNTA simple model that helps make much about the modern world easier to comprehend is that of a high-low tag team against the middle. As part of a time-tested strategy of divide and rule, the rich tend to push for policies and attitudes that increase identity-politics divisiveness—more immigration, more Black Lives Matter rioting, more transgender agitation, and so forth—which makes it harder for the nonrich to team up politically to promote their mutual economic interests.
You could call it: “Diverse and Conquer.”
Not just the modern world. Think Cavaliers vs Roundheads, Bread & Circuses & the Emporer vs the Senate & independent Roman farmers, etc. on down the line throughout history. NOt a constant, but a familiar enough occurrence.
A striking example of how identity politics turn in practice into the Zillionaire Liberation Front has emerged in the war over which Dead White Male to kick off the currency to make room for a woman: the $10 bill’s Alexander Hamilton or the $20’s Andrew Jackson. Bizarrely, the reactionary genius Hamilton, apostle of rule by the rich, is rapidly morphing in the conventional wisdom’s imagination into an Honorary Nonwhite.
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Andrew Jackson, the founder of the modern Democratic Party, is out of fashion because today diversity outranks democracy.
It wasn’t always like this. Jackson was the first president elected by universal white manhood suffrage after the elimination of property restrictions on the vote. This made him a potent symbol of democracy in the middle of the 20th century.
Back when my mom went to school, Jackson was revered by the Democrat schoolteachers.
But since standing up for the implicitly white little guy is racist, we now stand up for the big guy.
Why take into consideration the interests of millions of working class white folks when there are at least 10 Mark Zuckerbergs who REALLY need our help (and employ maybe 4000 Americans apiece).
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical Hamilton had already been a sensation when it debuted Off Broadway months before Lew’s announcement about the ten-spot. And it’s not hard to grasp how the show fits exactly what wealthy white New York liberals want to see: minorities defending Wall Street. It’s the Obama of musicals.
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Granted, the notion of Alexander Hamilton—who struck everybody who knew him as far right by 18th-century American standards—as a progressive hero would have seemed more than a little bit nuts to Americans at any time before the present.
Nuts today, policy tomorrow.
