“The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself,
though it may be at another time and in another form.”
— Jefferson Davis
1st Lt. Col. US Army, US Congressman, US Secretary of War, US Senator, President of the Confederate States of America
A week ago today, the US Senate passed the National Defense Appropriations Act for 2021, which contained a provision that will automatically strip Confederate names from military bases. There are 10 such Army and National Guard installations spread across six states of the Southland.
Out of 23 Southern senators who voted (Lindsay Graham was conspicuously absent), 18 voted for the legislation, including my two scalawag US senators, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr. Only 5 senators representing the South voted “nay,” although for most of them that had nothing to do with a principled defense of Dixie.
Rand Paul was one “resistor,” who many within the Southern-without-apology movement are lauding. But let us not forget what the senator “from Kentucky” said in 2015 when defending Republican governor of SC Nimrata “Nikki” Haley‘s removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from Capitol grounds:
“It’s a symbolism of slavery. And now it’s a symbol of murder for this young man, and so I think it’s time to put it in a museum,” the Pennsylvania-born Paul declared, referencing Dylann Roof.
Canadian-born senator Ted Cruz was another part of this “rebel” quintet. Let us not forget what the senator “from Texas” tweeted in 2019 when slamming TN governor for supporting a day to honor Nathan Bedford Forrest:
“This is WRONG … Forrest was a Confederate general & a delegate to the 1868 Democratic Convention. He was also a slave trader & the 1st Grand Wizard of the KKK.”
By feeding into the uneducated anti-Dixie hate, even Southern Republicans are no friend to my people. Hell, it was 6 Texas Republican congressmen who broke ranks to vote with Democrats to remove statues of Confederates from the US Capitol. We should honor “Americans who worked to … preserve the Republic,” said Texas rep Michael Burgess, a Minnesota native.
And it was a GOP-dominated legislature in Mississippi that changed the state’s flag, which featured an “offensive” Battle Flag. “We’re not moving further away from our Founding Fathers’ visions. We’re moving closer to them. We’re not destroying our heritage; we’re fulfilling it,” said the Mississippi House Speaker, who sounds not a bit different than Nancy Pelosi.
“There’s no room for celebrating the violent bigotry of men of the Confederacy in any place of honor across our country,” said San Fran Nan in her recent floor speech cheering on the NDAA. “The men for whom these [military] bases were named are not heroes.”
They are “white supremacists … [and] traitors who took up arms against America and killed American soldiers in defense of slavery.” This narrative is the same as Elizabeth Warren, the legacy-less poser who proposed the Confederate cleanse.
“For the Trump White House to threaten vetoing a pay raise for our troops over this is downright despicable,” screeched Democrat Tammy Duckworth regarding the NDAA. Fortunately for her and the members of the US Armed Services Committee, she’ll get her cash and her forever-wars since “the Republican-controlled Senate backed the bill by 84 to 13, more than the two-thirds majority needed in the 100-member chamber to override a veto.”
I mean, this puritanical-progressive madness wouldn’t have even gotten out of this GOP-controlled committee if “conservatives” had struck down the measure from the get-go. In typical Benedict Arnold fashion, all but two Republicans supported the PC stipulation.
To give credit where credit is due, Trump did try to resist the onslaught and the increasing GOP capitulation, promising for months to veto the $741 billion defense bill if it included removing Confederate base names. “These monumental and very powerful bases have become part of a great American heritage, and a history of winning, victory, and freedom,” the president tweeted.
“We won two world wars … that were vicious and horrible, and we won them out of Fort Bragg, we won out of all of these forts that now they want to throw those names away.” Trump is right.
But the name purge that has most raised my ire is Virginia’s Fort A.P. Hill, named after my highest-ranking Confederate ancestor. In the summer of 1941, the Army training facility was established “pursuant to War Department General Order No. 5,” and by the following year, it served as “the staging area for the headquarters and corps troops of Major General George S. Patton’s Task Force A,” which was instrumental in Operation Torch.
And let us not forget that “Ol’ Blood and Guts” was greatly influenced by Confederate Col. John S. Mosby, who was a friend of the Patton family. “The Gray Ghost,” as Mosby was known for expertly besieging the Yankees in guerrilla attacks and then fading into the countryside, would often play war games with the future WWII icon.
In WWII, “the first flag Marines raised upon taking the [Okinawa] headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army was the Confederate one. It had been carried into battle in the helmet of a captain from South Carolina.”
Another WWII hero, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, created a Dixie Division of the Army, which proudly displayed the Battle Flag as part of its heritage. In fact, it was Ike who, as part of the Civil War Centennial Commission, played such a vital role in memorializing the valor of the Southern soldier, especially Robert E. Lee.
“With malice toward none, with charity for all,” opined Dishonest Abe in his second inaugural address. America did have a short-lived reconciliation era in part of the 20th century, but that was a blip in history.
“This is not a political moment to me but a solemn occasion to lead our Mississippi family to come together, to be reconciled and to move on,” prevaricated Republican Gov. Tate Reeves of Mississippi, a native of the Magnolia State and a supposed Trump ally, at a ceremony celebrating his state’s succumbing to the social-justice struggle session. Sickening.
After invasion, total war, nearly one million lives lost, theft (both economic and spiritual), purposeful widows and fatherless children, the misery that was Reconstruction, and the current cultural genocide, the nation-statists now want more? As Andrew Lytle surmised, “This is like the thief who robs a house the second time and complains that the owners do not eat with silver.”
My ancestor A.P. Hill was murdered by federal troops. You know that libertarian catchphrase, “Don’t hurt people and don’t take their stuff”? Well, that happened to my kith and kin back then, and it sure is happening right now. Where are my apologies?
Even with the Armed Forces’ push to diversify, including their fast track to citizenship for immigrants (read: demographic replacement), “today’s Army is disproportionately dependent upon the South for volunteers,” with 44% of the military still hailing from Dixie.
“We have been soldiers for 2,000 years,” explained former US senator and Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb of his Southern, Scotch-Irish heritage. “The military virtues have been passed down at the dinner table.”
The social engineers at the Pentagon claim their mission is to unify a rainbow of peoples through the singular goal of “preserving freedom,” but we wide-awake Southerners know that the effeminized military is only satiated when it tears down real men. Southerners, it’s time to stop bearing the burden and getting nothing in return. It’s not like the military even protects our own borders. If only (read: satire).
US Army Gen. Mark Milley called the Confederacy an “act of treason.” Both the Navy and Marines have banned “all depictions” of the Battle flag on its military bases. This includes “bumper stickers, clothing and posters.”
David Petraeus, former U.S. Army general and CIA director, wrote an article urging for anti-Confederate conformity with such zeal that he called for renaming Fort Jackson, which he mistakenly thought honors Stonewall, not Andrew Jackson. Historical genius he is not.
Thankfully, some military brass have a clue. “The myth of Johnny Reb as the greatest infantryman happens to be true,” stated Retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters. “Not only the courage and combat skill, but the sheer endurance of the Confederate foot soldier may have been equaled in a few other armies over the millennia … the physical toughness, fighting ability and raw determination of those men remains astonishing. The Confederate battle flag is a symbol of bravery, not slavery.”
If you think anti-Southern bigotry isn’t a big deal, just stop and consider US Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Why would this career deep-stater resign and make it his main mission in life to expunge Confederate history from the military? Hint: it has absolutely nothing to do with Southern chattel slavery, but everything to do with your slavery, right here, right now.
Malign the the archetype as “oppressor,” and every “oppression” can be made whole through his eradication. Since it is white male Christian society that cultural Marxism aims to destroy, and since most white Christian males live in the South, and since they happen to be on average the most conservative voting demographic in the US, it’s a synergistic scheme of a sinister magnitude.
“Our Citadel, our inheritance and culture, our very identity and being as a people representing 2,000 years of Western Christian heritage,” as Boyd Cathey describes it, already puts us in the cross hairs of globalists. Then couple that with the Confederacy’s resistance to “the Leviathan and managerial ‘big government'” and the Southern man’s “othering,” and there you have the perfect linchpin.
His castigation or even extinction becomes leverage for every leftist cause, from BLM to the welfare-warfare state. And it’s all based on “the war was about slavery” mythos. It’s all a dirty damn lie.
“White supremacy … [and] ideological-driven racism” are immersed in the military, claimed a military survey. “Overall, troops who responded to the poll cited white nationalists as a greater national security threat than both domestic terrorism with a connection to Islam, as well as immigration.”
And this retarded revelation (as in retarding reality) was reported in The Military Times in February, months before the Floyd flimflam. Of course, the article’s feature photo is an image from Charlottesville, giving legs to what I call “archetype derangement syndrome.” Mission accomplished!
“Manifested ignorance and ideological falsehoods” are the tools used in the information war against the Southern tradition. And the agitprop is supported by Lincoln cultists like Victor Davis Hanson, Glenn Beck, Brian Kilmeade, Dinesh D’Souza, Ben Shapiro, and even Tucker Carlson. It’s about “demonizing the South to purify the nation,” allege these conservative cowards.
Perhaps these Republican reprobates think virtue signals will give them a pass with the cultural Marxists, or maybe they’re loyal opposition. Or it might just be party politics.
“Republicans won the civil war. That’s our history,” tweeted former Navy SEAL and GOP congressman Dan Crenshaw, who is supposed to represent Texas’ 2nd district and whose traitorous ways I’ve written about before. “Democrats have a long list of segregationists & KKK members. That’s their history. I’m glad to help them confront that racist past.”
“Conservative” Mark Levin and the motley malcontents over at PragerU also push the tedious “Dems the real racists!” narrative. Whatever are their reasons, it’s a big con that undergirds the therapeutic state and the caste system under which Southern folks live.
Raze Southern symbols? Well, that’s just fine. But burn a BLM sign? Lawd, that’s a hate crime! This lunacy is not only a cultural genocide built upon reeducation, but this attack against Southern heritage has been and still is a literal genocide. This isn’t a culture war; it’s an existential war!
This isn’t politics. It’s personal. To me, this isn’t really about the bases themselves. Honestly, I’m no fan of the U.S. military and its war-mongering ways.
Let’s face it, those installations are in no way representative of the Confederate principles of decentralization, human-scale governance, and self-determination, not self-loathing. Rather, they embody the “Yankee empire” which is “aggressive abroad and despotic at home,” as Gen. Lee so aptly prophesied. (The Republicans who didn’t support the NDAA due to its Big Tech “unconditional immunity” scheme and the halting of troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and Germany should take note.)
A smug Military.com writer joked about Sherman’s total-war annihilation of the South, insulted my ancestor’s ailing health, and called honoring Confederate veterans a type of “participation trophy” in an article offering up “10 much better names.” His snarky-to-serious suggestions for base rebranding ranged from NFL wide receivers and unknown abolitionists, to pirates and a bevy of predictable black “firsts.”
Truly, the empire doesn’t deserve Southern heroes. Replace ’em with “humanitarian” warriors, such as Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, or Madeline “500,000 dead Iraqi children was worth it” Albright. Or what about Base Black Panther or Camp Cardi B, or Camp Netflix or Fort OnlyFans? I’ve got it: Fort Floyd. I mean, nothing would be more fitting than commemorating for the ages Murica’s fentanyl-addicted, amateur-porn saint.
Let’s make bashing the South a losing GOP strategy. Like my advice to cops, let’s “walk away.” Let’s personally secede, from the military-industrial complex and from the GOP at the federal level, and take over the party at local and state levels, or both parties. Let’s take down Old Glory, and raise up our Battle Flags because the fight is the same as it ever was. So, if you Republicans don’t want us, we sure as hell don’t want or need you.
Be sure to keep an eye out my forthcoming part-personal/part-history essay about A.P. Hill.
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Excellent article!
Thank you!
What does this article mean? Does it mean that the South will return to her democrat party roots? I’m confused. What? Now the South’s going off grid, metaphorically giving up to surrender? That wouldn’t be the first time either, would it? Give up and you hand our mutual enemies another win. Is that your intention?
The South has the ability to bring down this entire vile political order simply by no longer supporting the Republicans. The Democrats will soon destroy themselves. It would be a twofer.
Absolutely right! Unfortunately, there are still too many of us thinking in binary terms: Republican = Conservative; Democrat = Leftist/Liberal.
Yes, the irony of it all is that the Republicans were the original big government party. You hear so many proud Southern Republicans these days impugning the Democrats as the party of slavery. But the democrats were the party of Jeffersonian small government. States Rights and small government mean the same thing. It was the Republicans who made the Democrats vulnerable to being taken over by Marxists. So, today we have people who believe themselves to be ‘small government conservatives’ empowering the party of big government. I don’t know how to wake people up and make them proud again of their heritage. They are so beaten down, terrified and divided or they have simply integrated themselves into the corruption.
Stan. Could not have screamed this better myself. You are 100% correct.
What to do…
I don’t believe there is anything we can do but continue to wait for enough people to lose confidence entirely in the institutions of our government, which are the only cultural institutions we have left. Everything else is already gone. In the meantime, we need to try to continue to refute the anti-Southern narratives and hold on to as much as we can.
You are correct. There is no conservative movement. There is nothing left to conserve. Those of us on the right are in fact counterrevolutionaries.
You are exactly right. The Republican party has never been a conservative party. It is hostile to traditionalism. People have deluded themselves into equating that party with conservativism. It is a laughable joke. They always punch right. They have always “canceled” anyone who holds right wing positions. In point of fact, they are the right flank of the left wing. Robert Lewis Dabney eloquently identified this in his writings in the 1890s:
“This [Northern conservatism…the Republican party] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always when about to enter a protest very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its “bark is worse than its bite,” and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance: The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip.”
William, I tried my best to fit your beloved Dabney quote into this essay since it is spot on. But alas, it is so well-written and so poignant that I couldn’t cut any of it and make it fit in my already-lengthy piece. One day soon, friend. One day.
This image our friend Ellen messaged me to show the denseness of GOP people always playing by leftist rules so perfectly illustrates this: “The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it ‘in wind,’ and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip.” Let’s stop putting that whip in our enemies hands!
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In this last presidential election cycle, the Republican party spent half of its energy trying to focus on the fact that Joe Biden voted against forced busing in the 1970s! Really? He SHOULD have voted against forced busing. Everyone should vote against forced busing! That is the dumbest bunch of unprincipled morons ever to claim they comprise a party.
And that is untapped power!
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The GOP, the rebranded Whig Party, which was in turn the renamed “Federalist” Party, at its core, has never changed its corporacratic motive. I roll my eyes every time I read or hear someone use the term RINO as a condemnation, as if true Republicans are conservatives!
Nope! The Republican Party, at its core, has always despised true conservatives (or what it deemed true conservatives): Goldwater, Reagan, Ron Paul . . . Indeed, RINO ought to be a badge of honour for actual conservatives! The GOP has accepted us in, used our votes, money, and, as you cite in this article, our young men, to advance their corporacratic, imperial ambitions! Conserving nothing, they’ve even co-opted and redefined the term “conserative” to mean things that have nothing whatever to do with what the likes of Burke, Jefferson, Calhoun, Dabney, or Kirk would recognize! And you’re right, DM, we keep pledging our loyalty to them! AARRGGHH!!!
Of course the Democrat Party, other than the name, has nothing to do with the party my ancestors were a part of! Yes, it had its faults, but it was also the original political representation of actual conservatism as expressed here in the US. Now, it’s nothing but an old label for a company that sold out to new owners who changed the original product into something inferior (Read Marxism and Revolution).
So what’s a Southerner to do? We’re not really represented anywhere! But, practically speaking, some of the ones you rightly criticize here must also be our allies for now. I hate it when the likes of Beck, Carlson, Cruz, or Rand Paul unjustly and falsely condemn the South, its heroes and its symbols, BUT they may have to be our allies – again – for now in view of what’s coming, with the hope that we can awaken ourselves and our people to the actual facts about our history and traditions.
Which only means we’ve got a lot of work to do!
I think Beck’s a lost cause, Cruz is a maybe, but I think Paul is smart enough and bold enough on other important issues that perhaps we could build bridges with him, but honestly, I think federal politics is always going to be a losing battle for us, simply because of the “corporacratic, imperial ambitions” that you speak of. And Tucker, well, we should just threaten to leave him in the dust en masse if he says that kinda crap again. Actually, we should write him a letter NOW, and educate him about his transgressions just cuz he actually does seem to get so many of the culture war issues and he does have a big audience. If you write it, DD, I’ll promote it!
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When I speak of these individuals as allies, the controlling, key prepositional phrase is for now. Using an analogy from the military, the current layer of the crisis we’re in, is the 5-meter target, point blank range, right in our faces. Again, Trump is no saviour, but, the current election fraud/Marxist revolution, places us in the Marxist/Deep State crosshairs along with Orange Man! For now, then – for now, mind – I’ll accept this bunch as allies, along the lines of “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”; shamelessly pragmatic, I know! Trump buys us time, and another term buys us a bit more. That’s it!
Just beyond that 5 meter target, then, we quickly discern the 10 and 25 meter targets, our engagement in Southern Nationalism. I’d like to think we could bring the likes of these gentlemen (and others) along, but I have limited energy or patience for trying to convince them. As I’ve written here before, continuing to think we can build on the old foundations of the America-That-Was with the poison pills of American Exceptionalism, the Lincoln Cult, Civic Nationalism/Proposition Nation, etc., is wasted energy, doomed to utter failure. Consequently, there’s no MAGA and no restoration! If we could bring back the original understanding of the Constitution, or, perhaps better, the beefed up Articles of Confederation, that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were originally charged with strengthening, then maybe we’d be getting somewhere; but as Miss Ilana has often observed, the Constitution is a dead letter, the Three Branches largely observing the form and rarely, if ever, the substance of it.
I’m an optimist, ultimately, but mine is heavily tempered with realism (Some may call it cynicism, and that’s, admittedly, often the case!). Folks like you and others are fighting the good fight of attempting to educate our people along with others of good will. Sadly, though, I fear too many of us are going to need more pain and suffering before we wake up to our true predicament. As long as anyone thinks that salvation comes with the next election cycle, then he still just doesn’t get it!
Incidentally, I watched one of Jonathan Harris’s latest offerings on Conversations That Matter (I have you, Miss Rebecca, to thank for getting me tuned in to ol’ Brother Harris!). Jon had as guest the gentlemen who put out the podcast Ars Politica, dealing with the concepts of love for one’s place, people, and community, or, put more controversially for the folks in Big Eva, Christian Nationalism.
As ever, gratitude, a Merry Christmas, and . . .
Grace and blessings,
David Smith (“Daithi Dubh”)
DD a.k.a Dave “the Man” Smith,
Everything you so is right on. We have to be smart and pragmatic, fighting the long game but without shooting ourselves in the foot, and willing to build bridges but without selling our souls to the devil. And I think the way you lay things out is precisely the way we should move forward.
As far as Christian Nationalism goes, it’s making waves in the Ameridox and Evangeleftist worlds, which means it has legs. Any time they waste tons of ink bashing a topic, you know it must be something good and worthwhile. My friend Chad Newsom, who I’ve had on the podcast twice, is a big proponent of it, as is Vox Day. I’ve also been in contact with a compatriot of Ars Politica, and we’re talking about doing an interview. In fact, I’d like to do a series on Christian Nationalism, as I think there’s little else as important. Perhaps it is the key to it all.
Hope you had a blessed Nativity, bruthah. Buckle up for 2021!
I think Beck’s a lost cause, Cruz is a maybe, but I think Paul is smart enough and bold enough on other important issues that perhaps we could build bridges with him, but honestly, I think federal politics is always going to be a losing battle for us, simply because of the “corporacratic, imperial ambitions” that you speak of. And Tucker, well, we should just threaten to leave him in the dust en masse if he says that kinda crap again. Actually, we should write him a letter NOW, and educate him about his transgressions just cuz he actually does seem to get so many of the culture war issues and he does have a big audience. If you write it, DD, I’ll promote it!
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Thank you. Entirely correct. Southerners need to stop supporting the Republican party. They have never been on our side. We need a region wide movement to accomplish this.
Yes, a widespread movement made up of many localist movements. Ground up, grassroots, and no apologies or concessions. Ever!
It would be impossible for me to say it better. Bravo. Screw the Yankee empire. No more Southern sons for foreign wars. Let Martha’s Vineyard send her limpwrist sons abroad to fight and die to make Djibouti safe for gay marriage. Here is the thing, though the South constitutes 44 percent of the military, when you look deeper at the combat (not support) billets, the army and Marine infantry, artillery and armored units, it is approaching 70 percent Southern. If Southerners policed their arms and went home, the Empire couldn’t wage war. Let the purple haired fishhook faces fend for themselves. If Southerners didn’t vote Republican, there would be no Republican party. Note a trend here?
“Let Martha’s Vineyard send her limpwrist sons abroad to fight and die to make Djibouti safe for gay marriage. … Let the purple haired fishhook faces fend for themselves,” lol! This kinda razor-sharp rhetoric is why you’re my friend, good sir! 🙂
I really appreciate the correction on my stat and that 70% number is so powerful. Walk away, Southern man! You hold the power if only you will wield it! And same with the GOP, as you point out. If we would only stop being our own worst enemy, maybe we’d avoid genocide.
But unfortunately, “conservatives” love their party politics and view it as a team sport (especially boomers), which is why the “let me outdo the Dems by telling the world how racist they really are” is sooooooo tedious. Hey, Repubes, you’re never going to out-virtue-signal a leftist. Never. Ever.
So here’s to waking up those slumbering Southerners to the fact that personal secession really can work!
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We need to form a new party. How about the Party of God, or perhaps the Constitutional Party.
Seriously, so lets look at history. it’s all been done before. The crusades. Cromwell. Rev. War. War Bw States.
Now what are we to do? We had a new nation to escape to in the early 1600s. Now where do we run? Antarctica?
No, we fight. We either combine forces and fight, or we die. God will win out in the end anyway, hence why don’t we just choose our Maker, but I think the Constitutional Party can work. Any takers?
I do like the idea of a “party of God” a la Christian nationalism, which my friend Chad has done yeoman’s work on. https://www.christendomcurriculum.com/blog/video-christians-against-christian-nationalism
You may have heard the Gospel Coalition and other evangeleftists losing their minds about it which means the idea is actually catching on. Good, because that would solve so many of our problems. And the Constitution Party isn’t what is what in its Pat Buchanan heyday. Plus, I’d be more a fan of an Articles of Confederation Party. 😉
I’m not trying to downplay your ideas, but I do think 3rd-party politics is a huge and typically ineffective pursuit at the federal level. Plus, I think we need to stop thinking in terms of “national” anything. That’s a basket in which I don’t want to put any of my eggs, and I think the most recent fed elections prove how futile that really is.
However, I do think that party takeovers, 3rd-party politics, running as an independent, and things like trying to get a homeschool mom or dad on the school board, etc., are all smart moves locally. Hell, last ballot I had for some county seats, a few folks ran unopposed! That just shows you the power of local politics. Brion McClanahan describes it much better than I can, so check this out and lemme know what ya think.
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What a sublime utterance that Southern author created when he said that the Conservative Party is merely the shadow of the Democratic Party. Wonderful insight and wonderful expression ! And true,also,in most countries – not just the US.
Poles – are out in the streets. Hungarians – are out in the streets. Frenchmen – are out in the streets. Americans ? Well – not so much,really,unless they are hired,trained and paid as, ” crisis actors ” . But,” play-acting ” will not hold up any too well in the face of belief,conviction,determination,commitment and unquivering bravery.
The percentage of colonials who played any ACTIVE role in the American Revolutionary War was well under 50 %. Most were ” fence-sitters ” – waiting for the ” main chance ” .
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Yes, a tireless minority is indeed the backbone of our liberty. But setting the brush fires of freedom is tricky business. You will get your chance, the question is knowing when is the time and where is the locale. I mean, we in Murica are in the belly of the beast – ground zero of globohomo, as it were – so I say be careful, cautious, and cunning our there, Joseph. Keep your powder dry until it’s do or die.