AS I WILL NEVER STOP POINTING OUT THE MUSICAL HAMILTON is a propaganda campaign peddling the lie that at least Alexander Hamilton, probably the most anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian of the "founders" was better than the more overt hypocrites who wrote the Constitution and pushed for its adoption, Madison, John Jay, etc. and the hypocrite advising them, Jefferson. The fact is that Hamilton was actively involved in the slave holding of the family he married into - the holders of the largest number of those held in slavery in New York state - and the arguments he made in favor of the adoption of the Constitution included the economic benefits of slavery to the Northern economy, especially to people of means who were the primary audience for his, Madison's and Jay's propaganda. The actual adoption of the Constitution included limiting the numbers of those who would get a say in its adoption as certainly as Republican-fascists in 2021 are preparing to limit all elections to the extent possible and to which the Republican-fascists on the Supreme Court and lower courts will use the Constitution to allow it.
While Lin Manuel Miranda might have had better intentions, based on his ignorant dependence on a hagiographic popular biography written by a right-wing political hack, his musical is a lie which was championed by the New York Times and other props of the anti-egalitarian establishment that has an easy relationship with the more genteel side of Republican-fasiscism that promoted the knee-britches off of that piece of lying crap, his musical is typical of the propaganda that lies people into retaining the worst parts of what Hamilton, Madison, et al intentionally wrote to thwart democracy for the benefit of the intellectual, economic and, in many cases, biological descendants of their own slave-owning, wealth accumulating and expanding class.
The Electoral College that installed George W. Bush and then Trump, and, lest anyone forget, the President who ushered in the Jim Crow era through the corrupt deal he made with slave-holding interests in the South, Rutherford Hayes, the anti-democratically constituted Senate which prevents democracy, the mechanisms that early on and still allow the minority to thwart the majority through congressional redistricting along with the Constitutional language used by anti-democratic "justices" on the least democratic of all parts of the government, the Supreme Court to allow that to continue were put there for those purposes, explicitly or in potential and retained there through the efforts of Hamilton as well as Madison and the rest.
Our 18th century Constitution has been the major impediment to equality, to democracy and the rigging and manipulation of it is worse now than it has been at any period since the Jim Crow era - Republican-fascists in 2021 are giving white people a small taste of what life under Hamilton's Constitution has always been for Black People and People of Color, so many of us too stupid to see what is going on. Hamilton, the musical, is one of the biggest lies told on Broadway, its creator too stupid to understand the role he plays in propping up Republican-fascism by peddling pretty stories about "the founders" or at least one of the worst of them, someone who even his fellow aristocrats understood to be a monarchist thug who was extremely dangerous even to their freedoms, who stupidly challenged Aaron Burr to a duel and who was, thankfully, removed from the scene by his own stupidity and, perhaps, through having his rigging of the pistols backfire on him.
So, no, I'm no fan of the black-facing of America's white-supremacist history as stupidly rapped and boogied to, lying us out of finally scrapping the 18th century vehicle for the empowerment of white supremacists and anti-equality fascists for something which is not a tool for the enforcement of inequality favoring the rich over the poor, the few over the many, white people over People of Color, men over Women, and in so many other ways. There is no Equal Rights Amendment that is going to be adopted and overturn the inequality baked into the Constitution, the mechanisms that favor the few over the many - even that inclusion of an actual and slight majority of the population as legal-equals is impossible to adopt under the rules rigged by Hamilton et al - imagine one that tried to give People of Color the full protection of the law and how it would fail even as a majority might favor it.
No, the lie will have to be overcome, the document will have to be radically altered, the mechanisms of government will have to be made democratic and equality will have to be held in high enough regard to win over the "freedom" of the privileged and the few to damage the unprivileged and the many which is something Hamilton put into the Constitution along with Madison and the rest. Jefferson may have developed into a political enemy of Hamilton because Hamilton was an even more radically anti-egalitarian than Jefferson was, but that's 18th century politics. We don't have to take one side or the other because the issues we face have moved on entirely from there. Real equality was never anything they were really interested in having, even Jefferson never practiced that as was in his power to do so.
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