Defenders of the dollar are the new defenders of slavery
Defenders of the dollar are the new defenders of slavery.
“Those who defended slavery rose to the challenge set forth by the Abolitionists. The defenders of slavery included economics, history, religion, legality, social good, and even humanitarianism, to further their arguments.
Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The cotton economy would collapse. The tobacco crop would dry in the fields. Rice would cease being profitable.
Defenders of slavery argued that if all the slaves were freed, there would be widespread unemployment and chaos. This would lead to uprisings, bloodshed, and anarchy. They pointed to the mob's "rule of terror" during the French Revolution and argued for the continuation of the status quo, which was providing for affluence and stability for the slaveholding class and for all free people who enjoyed the bounty of the slave society.”
https://www.ushistory.org/us/27f.asp
In other words, people marshaled every possible argument in order to ignore the reality that slavers were and by right ought to be treated as free people. You think the spirit that animated these people just died in 1864? No, it went underground, established a bank, and levied the same arguments defending slavery to defend a economic system built on the premise that certain people can benefit from the labor of others by means of fraud (bank loans) and theft (taxes). They have marshaled every possible argument in order to ignore the reality that people are and by right ought to be treated as free people. If the profitability of rice depends on the institution of slavery, may we never grow another grain of rice. If the existence of government and banking depends on fraud and theft, may these institutions burn like hay in a fire.
If slavery was wrong (and it is) then so is the current global monetary banking system. You can’t be anti-slavery and pro-dollar.
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