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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Unhappy Thoughts for Our Times

9/19/2021

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It is reported that the yearly median household income in Loudon County, Virginia, full of federal bureaucrats, is about $118,000.  It is the richest county in the U.S.  The comparable figure for South Carolina is less than $49,000.  This explains arrogant talk in high quarters  about “deplorables” and tells us a lot of what we need to know about the Evil  Empire quartered in Washington.

The rabble cheered and cavorted as General Lee’s monument was destroyed in Richmond.  Rabble is the right word.  Across this broad land many of us shed tears or gritted our teeth.  We are far more numerous than the rabble and a far better class of human beings. Rabble can build nothing. They can only destroy.

It is a simple fact that most White people, from the discovery of Black Africa in the 1500s until well into the 20th century, were “racists” and “White supremacists.”  They were simply responding to history and a common sense view of the world around them.  It is also true that the leaders and soldiers of the North in the War Between the States were just as “racist” as the Southerners they conquered.  The whole business of attacking “racism” by wiping out memory of the Confederacy is a fraud.  It is really an attack on Western Civilisation.  That is becoming more evident every day. At bottom it has little do with African Americans opposing “racism.”  It is a product of the arrogant and dishonest virtue signalling of  a certain type of American, which itself is a cover for a radicals’ campaign of social destruction. 

​Some people seem to be counting on a Republican resurgence in next year’s elections to save the country.  It is hard to imagine anything so short-sighted and historically ignorant.  The only hope for reform is that the Republicans disappear and are replaced by a genuine opposition party.
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dogface
9/20/2021 08:22:38 pm

Dr. Wilson, Just wanted to mention I have recently bought some of your audio books on Audible and I look forward to listening to them soon. Thank you.

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Anthony Powell
9/23/2021 05:57:36 am

Dr Wilson’s description of the despotic ruling class in the District of Criminals as the ‘Evil Empire’ is 100 percent accurate. This evil Yankee empire must be resisted and opposed.

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William Wilson
12/7/2021 09:48:14 am

Yes, Loudon County is the richest locality in the US followed by two other Virginia localities--Fairfax County and Falls Church City. First, second, and third, All DC suburbs. What is more, Fairfax City is 5th, Arlington is 10th. Babylon on the Potomac.
Dickinson County. Emporia, Norton, and many others have average incomes under $30,000 a year. During the recent elections I flipped over to CNN (Advent penance you see) and saw one of their fools run his finger across this red state save for a few blue dots and say "now all this is just Trumpy people," meaning, they are not real.
This a real horror in the making

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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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