March 8, 2019
For many years, American schoolchildren have been taught that the Northern forces won the Civil War. I\’m not so sure, and, I\’m wondering if IT\’S ever been taught this way in the South?
It doesn\’t seem like many Confederate statues have been pulled down over the past-couple-of-years (this dynamic is not too difficult to figure out!). A potentially more interesting dynamic is why there were so many Confederate statues put up in the not-so-distant-past: ostensibly by the losing side?!
It\’s usually the winners who get their statues put up, isn\’t it?!
I never would have guessed that a Northern gangster could con Dixie into thinking that he would raise the South. But he did it! Perhaps one simply needs to have a Florida address to qualify as a Confederate…?
But he hasn\’t raised the South with his Border Wall promise — he has merely conned them into thinking that they are again \”on-the-rise.\” He\’s a Yankee: as Yankee as can be! Yet the South has embraced him like he\’s one-of-their own?!
He\’s also managed to harness the Southern hatred of the North to maintain his base at a steady 35%.
Yes, yes — I know there are a few Northern states that also voted for the Great Pretender (and they probably now wish they had joined the Confederacy back-in-the-day). To their credit — they still maintain those core Southern values: Slavery is cool and Whites are the Master race!!
I\’ve said it before, and I\’ll say it again (though I don\’t know if it was Hitler or Stalin who originated it) — that a very simple ruling maxim is: you only need 10% of the population behind you to maintain control over the other 90%!
So the division in US has been magnified (a few hundred times): Fully one-third are ready to take up arms to recreate slavery — as evidenced by the rise of hate crimes and the number of unarmed Black men riddled with bullets.
Meanwhile, Don the Con is attacking the entire Pacific Northwest (because we didn\’t vote for him) with restrictions on mortgage interest deductions. Once-upon-a-time we could deduct the entire interest on our pricey California domiciles. But The Con has capped us at $10,000.00 worth of deductions — which means (since most Californians have rather large mortgages) that we will be paying massive federal taxes this year. If it is for the good of our country — I don\’t mind it! If it\’s to pay off a Deutsche bank loan or launder money — why, that\’s gangsta!!
Gavin, you gotta get a plan in place — because he\’s not about to let up!
What have we come to? That the King can rob the citizenry?? Taxation without representation???
Next we\’ll see the re-enactment of the Royal Fuck law — where Trump gets to fuck the bride before she marries.
I\’ve decided to arm myself with the following retorts: If a Trumphile labels me a \”socialist\” — I will counter with: \”Racist.\” If a Trumphile finds socialism objectionable — I will declare racism equally objectionable.
I wonder which-of-the-terms are the more serious moral invectives in our cultural lexicon?
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