Why do Americans deify elected officials?

Why do Americans deify elected officials?

We just like tacky monuments.

>Americans take its capital name after first president's name
Communist tier.

It's named after two people

Jefferson was basically the perfect president. Washington wasn't much of an intellectual, but he served just fine. The left half of Rushmore is infinitely more admirable than the right half.

When will le cheeto man be added?

Any president can conceivably reach semi worship status by pandering to the masses with something the believe to be great. I doubt he will accomplish such a thing, and even if he did the partisan divide is so stark people would hate any dem or rep for not being the same side of the false dichotomy as they are. There is a reason even when it was built the choices were older. With exception of teddy, who really drove Americans mad since he was such a tough guy and a war monger, just like the average American wanted to think of themselves at the time

cuck. rushmore is one of the most famous and coolest works of art. its american exceptionalism and manifest destiny in sculpture form

>Jefferson was basically the perfect president.

Except for the fact that he had stage fright and couldn't hold speeches at all, sure.

They are whigs learn your own history you mupit
WE WUZ ROMANZ AND SHT
Cringe worthy desu

There is no question in my mind he wouldn't win if public speaking was as important then as it is now, but I think his ideology and actions are more important than one's ability to be an amazing public speaker. I think any sensible man agrees. His writing was exceptional.

Located in the US capitol, The Apotheosis of Washington, depicting his ascension to the pantheon of gods

I agree wholeheartedly.

I especially agree with his treatment of the Barbary states. I wonder how many people actually know that he founded the United States Navy specifically to blow the fuck out of Muslim mercenaries on the coast of North-Africa.

Why is the UK still a theocracy?

Absurd

They can't stop themselves

Theory =/= Practice

The barbary wars were covered in my history class. The idea of paying tribute on threat of violence is absurd.

It's a shame every world government does that with every citizen's income now. It makes the accomplishment seem hollow to me. The great irony of founding father deification is how against the ideology if the founders many Americans are.

>The idea of paying tribute on threat of violence is absurd.

Indeed.

Why do you have to deface naturally beautiful mountainsides to make them though?

>washington sends the brit into a fit of rage
it's been over 200 years get over it

i'm in that photo

There is a statue of Washington in Trafalgar Square, London
It isn't Washington that triggers people, it's your North Korea tier worship of dear leaders

Its not anymore defacing than agriculture and urbanization is defacing nature.

anyway it shows mans victorious conquest over the natural, an important part of manifest destiny

Funny how they think brits are "stupid" for having monarchy and a Queen. I would rather praise a Queen than fucking commoners who lied and what not through their campaign just to enjoy taxes money in a comfy white house. Luckily the nigger is now gone from the said house though.

That's not an important part of manifest destiny and is anathema to American culture and history.

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why do brits LITERALLY deify people they didn't even vote into office?

Please show me a mountainside in any of the Commonwealth Domoinions carved to resemble a Monarch.
Show me in which parliament I will find an image of a Monarch ascending to become a literal god
Show me a Monarch that has been dead for 200+ years but still features on currency
Show me an example of people claiming that any Monarch was incapable of telling a lie

>Please show me a mountainside in any of the Commonwealth Domoinions carved to resemble a Monarch.
pretty specific request, but there are fuck tons of statues of royals all over london. like literally everywhere, and half the city is named after queen victoria or something related to her down to the fucking dildos she used
>Show me in which parliament I will find an image of a Monarch ascending to become a literal god
there's a statue of king richard just outside parliament and he's been dead for 1000 years lmao
>Show me a Monarch that has been dead for 200+ years but still features on currency
only because they revere their current monarch so much that currency completely changes with each new one they get
>Show me an example of people claiming that any Monarch was incapable of telling a lie
nobody believes that these people were incapable of telling lies...

>some statues are the same as entire mountains and actual deification in the capitol building

there's nothing wrong with that, it was a time before the President was basically an elected king crossed with a Kardashian.

the united states landscape is hugely fucking different and with all the land we have we can afford to carve dumb shit into mountainsides. where in england would they do that? and it's not "some" statues it's statues LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYWHERE. i was in york and there was a bigass statue of constantine the great outside of the minster. kings were seen as divine and they're still depicted with the fucking sceptre and globus cruciger in portraits. there's always been a connection to the divine with the english monarchy, they founded their own church for fucks sake

Only people unsullied by popular elections are suitable for reverence as national figureheads. How can the entire country choose as its embodiment someone who half the country actively voted against, and who more often than not used a variety of low tricks and smear tactics to win what was essentially a glorified popularity contest?

>inb4 better half the country voted for him than no-one at all
Just because the monarch didn't win an election, doesn't mean mean they're not in their position with the consent of the country. It's in our constitution that Parliament is sovereign. If Parliament wanted to remove the monarchy they would be well within their legal rights to do so at any time with a simple vote

The point of having a hereditary position is that our heads of state are spared the divisive, partisan indignity of elections

Washington was uncontested

yeah you know who else glorifies officials put into power regardless of the will of the people?

fucking north korea

Of course there are more statues, it's a much longer and richer history. Also, you think Canada doesn't have a spare mountain? Monarchs were traditionally believed to gain their authority from God and the Monarch is head of the Anglican church, but that is not the same as making your president a god

No was denying that monarchs are depicted as divine, where did you imagine this?
We were talking about presidents being depicted in a similar if not even more over-the-top way

The monarch is affirmed by Parliament (ie. the representatives of the people) at the beginning of every reign, and can be removed by Parliament at any time should it vote for that. It's incredibly fucking stupid to compare the British constitution to North Korea

Why the the English deify their military failures?

Better than "Washington era" desu

Lincoln was a genocidal lunatic
Jefferson was the ideal image of America

When people compare the two it boils my blood. Jefferson would've absolutely LOATHED Lincoln and probably pardoned Boothe posthumously.

>Trafalgar
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Except Dunkirk was indeed a tactical defeat but more importantly a strategic victory, the Germans failed to capture the BEF and the remnants of the French and Belgian armies.

He would have supported the Confederacy only out of loyalty to Virginia. He would probably have disapproved heavily of Lincoln but he wouldn't have pardoned Boothe.

But then again if men like him were around in the South in the 1860s the CSA wouldn't have been as shit as it was and probably wouldn't have lost the war in the first place.

>when you get BTFO by a one armed manlet

Since when has anyone 'deified' Dunkirk?

it probably wouldn't have started the war, it's undeniable the South both started the conflict and forced the Union's hand. With people like Jefferson they would've known better

In America if you get your own movie you are now a god

Humans naturally gravitate towards dictatorships. A strong leader is attractive and someone worth fighting for. Kings are meant to be the personification of a country, a living symbol of the people. Nations without this sort of system often find themselves bitterly divided, as without someone to look up to for unity the only thing they have left is culture, which is already divided by politics and race within the diverse United States. Americans may see themselves as the crusaders of Democracy and freedom but the truth is their Presidents are treated as nothing less than elected Kings. It works for them though, so it's not really a problem or something to criticise so much as it is a quirk of American culture.

oh i get it now

I don't think you can deify an event mate

t. John Podhoretz

Why do English deify unelected officials?

creepy

Wow, so this wasn't just some dumb shit that hack Kojima made up but a reference to something that really exists?

mount muttmore

when will barack hussein obogomongobo and george g bush get their monuments

>yfw americans literally base their historical monuments on anime

>Lincoln and Roosevelt on the same monument as Jefferson
about to fucking BREAK

Jefferson should have been up there 4 times tbqh, God bless him

worse than Stalin warshippers in Russia

'cuz we have a fucklot of land to deface

Test

Not only is there a statue in London but we still maintain the Washington family's manor house as part of the National Trust. God knows why, they certainly don't deserve it.

It's unnatural for a country to not have a monarchy, so the Americans use elected officials as a substitution. We also see this in the way they gravitate towards political dynasties like the Kennedy's, Bush's, Clintons.

It's also unnatural for a country to have a foreign monarch.

t. doesn't understand monarchy

This doesn't go along with the spirit of freedom. I wonder why do they do this like they are some slaves in some empire or under a totalitarian dictator while they're actually not.

probably more awkward for Wales and Scotland to be ruled by English monarchs than it was for the American colonies

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>American education

>American education

You can't be serious.

shh... don't tell him

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you have to at least admit that it's a very impressive work of art

Among the best I've ever seen by a son of Mormon polygamists

It is impressive that nobody even hurt himself during the construction. Greak discipline and safety.

This wasnt made by an American though. Italian immigrant.

he hasn't figured it out yet, this is amazing

>This doesn't go along with the spirit of freedom.
I t absolutely does when you understand the backstory, Mt Rushmore and in fact nearly all of these monuments were not made by the government or artists commissioned by the state they were made by crazy people, Mt Rushmore was just some guy with a rock hammer,chisel, some dynamite, a shit ton of money and a crazy dream with enough free time to do it with nobody around to stop him, he didn't get permission from anybody to do that shit and probably wouldn't have stopped even if he had and was refused.
Some guy being able to reshape a mountain into his personal sculpture with explosives is about as american as you can get.

They're slaves with the gall to act smug about it.
Pay them no mind.

Jefferson's intelect is vastly overrated.

The Louisiana purchase required him to change his position on the Constitution to be the same as Hamilton (that there were implied powers and that it was open to intrepretation) which he had criticized on these grounds. He also simultaneously declared that slavery was against natural law but the Brittish could be blamed for this in perpetuity, exempting Americans from reform.

Washington may not have been "much of an intelectual" but he recognized talent in his staff and got Hamilton to put US finnances up and running.

I heard Native Americans were trying to make a similar monument, anyone know about it?

Crazy Horse monument

it's just propaganda

Jefferson was a naive bitch. Literally everything he advocated for against the Federalist he backed out doing when he became President or failed

Which head has Richie Rich's bunker in?

fixed

say it to my face you fucking pussies

because imparting fidelity to the history of a nation's founding is good for the health, longevity, and unity of the state's core values and identity.

FUCK

YOU

MUTT

Some brits as I said “whigs” Iove him

At the time of the revolution the majority of our country were whigs
Literally none cried about it but many celebrated it

Oh god hahaha

This. I don't even like that one.

Can someone explain what the global boker face here is all about?
He made a valid point, no?

I thought Anglicans didn't follow the whole statues = idolatry line of protestant thought.

does it look like abe is holding a gun beside his head to anyone else?

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