"Consulatant": "Hey guys here's a way to lay claim to government land taken from the natives. Just plant a bunch of crabapple seeds like I did and you can claim to be "working the land", too."
Dude, who knows where I saw it but Honest Opinion says he's a useful idiot and you're saying he's a successful businessman who bought land, completely ignoring the whole homestead laws of the day.
I'm too old and cynical to buy "he was a good person" in the US during that time frame. Sorry, not gonna happen.
Correct, it was a land grab scam based on the laws of the time.
IIRC, if he planted trees it was then his land because he was using it, so he could then sell it for actual money. This was after the military had killed or chased out the natives who lived on it, of course.
Liberals are Capitalists. They are never left of Center.
Actual Leftism/Socialism starts with anti-Capitalism.
Dems are currently the most Right wing they've ever been in the US and were at best moderately Right wing back before Reagan. I recall the conundrum wealthy Dems had when their stock portfolios made them more money under Reagan and they choose to take the profits and shut up about it.
A Progressive Dem is still a Capitalist and not a Socialist so not really Progressive at all.
Repression with Pride Rainbow Pins.
This wasn't aimed at you specifically, Kim, I just take issue with this "Liberals are Centrists" silliness.