#jacksonianism

[musingsfromtheclosetofanunk-blog]

Reasons My Geopolitics Course Is Awesome

(This class has two professors. Prof A and Prof B)

Hashtags I wrote down during class:

#FuckMorals

#FuckTrump

#FuckingFight (both profs were arguing and it was fucking awesome)

#ItBringsUsBackToKagan

#TheWorldIsTheUSA

#I'dVoteForTruman

#SeducedByFrance

#GrassRootsElites

#FuckHumans

#DemocracyDammit

#FuckContinentalRealism

#Geography&Capitalism

#Gay

#OldiesJoke

#AvoidLoveAffair

Out of Context Quotes:

Technically I’m allergic to power politics - Student

Geopolitics used to have a meaning, now it means everything - Prof A

*singing* American centrality - Prof A

We’ve got to teach these third world weirdos the right way - Student summarising reading

Trump is the ultimate in anticomplexity - Prof A

*singing* Obama got rejected - student

Even simple minded presidents can think sometimes - Prof A about Trump

He mutated from one school to another -Prof A about Prof B

He was a Jeffersonian snake now he’s a Wilsonian flower - Prof A about Prof B

Well I’m a Jeffersonian obviously - Prof A

I wasn’t arguing that we could transform Afghanistan into Rhode Island - Prof B (G-d forbid - Prof A)

These schools are promiscuous, it’s a part of American culture - Prof A

They like peace, unless they like war - Prof B

If you enter it, you better win - describing Jacksonian (Burn, kill, win, cruuuuush - Prof A)

He was too optimistic, and I’ll spend the rest of the course telling you why - Prof A

You’re question was good, Prof B’s answers was eh okay. Let me give you a better one - Prof A

I mean, we’re really all just scorpions in a bottle - student

England is like a Mongoose, but a very self important mongoose that has been slowly aging and doesn’t want to admit it. It’s an old mongoose. A sad mongoose. - Prof A

Because I mean fuck morality right? - Prof B

But in the end Hamilton and Wilson just need eachother - Prof B

In order to transcend we must be all powerful, Americans only like power if they’re at the top after all - Prof A

America, also know as the Fuck It, Don’t Fuck With Me state - Prof A

I’m actually schizophrenic - Prof A (I have no idea how we got to this topic tbh)

There are some stories too that are funny, and this all amuses me at least. So I’ll chronical it, because rely what is Tumblr if not a weird ass diary?

[princetonarchives]

“This turbulency better comports with faction and anarchy, than the genius of our government.”

--New Brunswick's Fredonian, on a Jacksonian political meeting on Princeton's campus, October 10, 1827

[existentialistmumbojumbo]

To judge from the commentary inspired by the shutdown, most progressives and centrists, and even many non-Tea Party conservatives, do not understand the radical force that has captured the Republican Party and paralyzed the federal government. Having grown up in what is rapidly becoming a Tea Party heartland–Texas–I think I do understand it. Allow me to clear away a few misconceptions about what really should be called, not the Tea Party Right, but the Newest Right.