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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

More of the Way We Are Now

6/18/2020

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Previous Presidents used “the bully pulpit” to communicate issues to the people. Trump uses the sissy tweet.

There has never been any President who was “considering” so many actions that are never heard of again.

Imagine Joe Biden in debate in the British House of Commons. He would not last five minutes.

There is no longer any news reporting of actual events. There is only reporting of the “reporters’” opinions and feelings.

How much do you actually know about the COVID plague? How many got it?  How many died from it actually? How many people have tested positive but have no symptoms? How many had symptoms but recovered? What is the rate by age, sex, race of infection and mortality? The government spends millions on thousands of overpaid people dealing with “health” who have been useless or worse. The government and the press have conspired to keep you as confused as possible. They are covering their incompetence and using the event to push unrelated agenda.

Meanwhile, they have catastrophically damaged the economy and the damage has been inflicted almost entirely on us “basket of deplorables” while the government lives safely and the obscenely rich get even more obscenely rich.

If Southerners were organised and had any money we would see that our monuments are put into safe custody. There is no reason for them to inhabit corrupt cities. The same goes for military bases of the corrupt U.S. military which do not deserve honourable Confederate names.

Just think of the fun we can have selecting names and erecting statues to all the outstanding politicians, activists, entertainers, and athletes who grace current American life. In fact, athletes who are learned in history have been prominent in the current iconoclasm. Clemson University, named for its slaveholding Confederate founder, should be renamed for Linsey Graham or Nicki Haley. Or perhaps one of its past great athletes.

The possibilities for hilarious renaming of institutions, streets, etc. are limitless! Let’s get started. A country’s symbols should reflect the people it belongs to, not the people it used to belong to.

For a long time I thought of myself as a Jeffersonian democrat. Like Jefferson I really believed that the people would choose rightly if we could just get rid of corrupt state capitalists and politicians interfering with their will. The trouble is, Oprah watchers, mall shoppers, and devotees of commercial sports are not a people. They are the urban rabble, undeserving of citizenship, that Jefferson feared.
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Anthony Powell
6/19/2020 08:26:00 am

Dr Wilson, renaming Clemson University for Lindsey Graham won't work...he's a white male, albeit a relatively worthless NEOCON white male. Graham never heard of a country he didn't want the Yankee Empire to invade, destroy ,and occupy. Now, Nikki Haley University might pass muster, particularly since she was instrumental in changing the SC state flag, if I recall correctly.

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Clyde Wilson
6/19/2020 02:21:21 pm

I recommend that we change Clemson to Sherman University, the Calhoun Honors College to Denmark Vesey Honors College, and the Strom Thurmond building to the Jesse James building. That way we honour the greatest fighters against evil South Carolina.

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Kenneth Robbins
6/20/2020 07:13:54 am

Dr. Wilson: "If Southerners were organized and had any money." This is a true statement. We have never organized and that's why we have no money. If we were Organized animals would not own our cities and states. If we were Organized the Yankee military would not have bases in the South. Southerners need to decide what they want constant humiliation or servitude under a people that believe we are traitors. We have wasted the last 155 years. We are still in bondage and from what I see we like our chains. we send our children in a constant stream to serve our masters, we vote in the party of Lincoln. we obey our orders no matter what. we Sir deserve what we get, The only thing we do well is piss and moan.

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Kenneth Robbins
6/23/2020 10:52:43 am

When did Jesse James fight against South Carolina ??

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Clyde Wilson
6/23/2020 11:11:13 am

I'm sorry. I meant Jesse Jackson

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Kenneth Robbins
6/23/2020 11:40:05 am

Thank you sir for the quick reply

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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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