re: #266 JC1

Kind of catchy. I like the 80s techno music. Going to be a bit with the Lose Change and Qanon crowd.

And I’ll wager that this ad is nothing compared to what these two would have put on if TV was available in their day:”

Right out of the gate, one of the worst things you could be in American politics was an atheist. (“Libertine” was employed as loose sexual mores against atheists since the beginning as well.)

Things got ugly fast. Jefferson’s camp accused President Adams of having a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” In return, Adams’ men called Vice President Jefferson “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.” As the slurs piled on, Adams was labeled a fool, a hypocrite, a criminal, and a tyrant, while Jefferson was branded a weakling, an atheist, a libertine, and a coward. Even Martha Washington succumbed to the propaganda, telling a clergyman that Jefferson was “one of the most detestable of mankind.”