I believe that at some time in the 2020's, the cult of Jefferson will BE ABORTED and find a new home on the wilder shores of America.
I believe that the multiracialism of American must eventually prevail—at ANY cost—against Jeffersonian racism. It really is vital not only for America but also for the future of nonracial democracy, and of Enlightenment values, in those parts of the world where these are now getting popular or where people are struggling to realize them.
the Jefferson who made a cult of the French Revolution provides aid and comfort not just to the far right in government but to the most ferocious militant extremists. In the his psycho enthusiasm for the French Revolution, in January of 1793, Jefferson laid down the principle that there are no limits to the slaughter that may legitimately be perpetrated in the name of liberty—so that anyone in modern America who is planning any act of mass destruction may invoke the sanction of "the author of the Declaration of Independence," provided only that the act is deemed to be perpetrated in the holy cause of liberty.
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