Banking and chattel slavery
One ring to rule them all ...
The United States of America needs a new political party born of the unfinished business of the American Revolution -- much like Horace Greeley said of the Republican Party when it was created back in the mid-1850s. The two greatest institutions - and problems - that arose from the 1789 Constitution were banking and slavery. Controversy and debates surrounding these two institutions dominated the antebellum. The Whig and Democratic Parties failed to resolve either issue and both splintered over internal divisions, especially on slavery but no less banking. The Republican Party that arose in their stead c. 1850 was anti-slavery, but pro-tariff and pro-banking. The slavery issue -- at least chattel slavery -- was ultimately “solved” in internal rebellion and civil war, but the issue of banking was never resolved. In fact, I would argue that banking and other corporate powers prevailed over all … in great part over the government itself.
I wholeheartedly agree. We need someone like Andrew Jackson as President. In many regards he was a bad SOB, but he understood what the criminal banking cartel was up to, and was one of the two incorruptible individuals in this specific instance; defeating Biddle and Clay in their attempt to control the currency. The other one was T. Jefferson, constantly fighting with Hamilton over creating the First National Banking system. Washington mostly just playing referee.
But what for am I telling you all that, a historian? I guess I am just inclined to babbling when it involves the Bankster monetary system.