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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Empire

2/7/2021

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The United States began as a republican confederation. With Appomattox it came a consolidated regime the most important symbol of which was $. With conquest and occupation of the Southern states the ruling element began to get a taste for empire, which Europe seemed to demonstrate to be a profitable affair. Thus annexation of Hawaii and the Philippines and various interventions in Latin America and Asia. World War I created a widespread anti-imperial reaction. The instincts and institutions of republicanism continued to have some hold on the people.

World War II and the Cold War completed American conversion into an imperial state, possessing of a worldwide empire, with bases and client states across the globe. (Imperialism is always covered with blather about spreading  “democracy,” whatever that means.) There has never been in history an empire with leaders as flabby, arrogant, unpatriotic, and clueless as the American ruling class. Their empire is bound to be challenged by other rising powers, in response to which they likely will create events disastrous to humanity---the extent of which will be only limited by their incompetence and delusions.

Empires do not have citizens. They have subjects. The bizarre events of recent times are part of  solidifying  the empire internally. We are all being made into subjects, although some subjects are more favoured than others. The Bidenites may well succeed in their project. If so, what will be left will be a regime that no civilised person can love.  
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Walt Garlington link
2/7/2021 10:29:42 pm

One of the surest ways to defeat Marxism today in the South is to ally ourselves with those who defeated it in the 20th century - the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, Romania, etc.:

https://orthochristian.com/137121.html

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Preston Brooks link
2/8/2021 10:51:17 am

There are only a small number of things that the US Government has done that are worse than the illegal annexation of Hawaii.

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Kenneth Robbins
2/10/2021 07:49:19 am

You are very correct in your assessment of our position in this country. Now government is railroading Mr. Trump. They will get him, today are another day. The true reason behind this is that they are telling us to shut up and obey are they will get us. We no longer have anything to lose. They will take everything and make us their slaves.

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H. V. Traywick, Jr. link
2/10/2021 10:02:32 am

As Ilana Mercer has shown us, we, like South Africa already, are in a revolution transforming a meritocracy into an economic and social system of "affirmative action" for favoured minorities. It is Marxism, with class being replaced by identity. Merit will not be abolished, just enslaved to carry the affirmative action deadwood - until Atlas Shrugs, and merit picks up his toys and goes home.

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    Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews

    Dr. Wilson is also is co-publisher of Shotwell Publishing, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books. 

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