One of my favorite writers, who has long passed, Charly Reese, wrote an editorial for the Orlando Sentinel 25 years ago. I believe it was his final effort for the O.S.


It is in no way dated. It could have been written yesterday, and it would fit perfectly with the horrid simulation in Washington, D.C of the so-called government that is saturated with hucksters and flim-flam artists; those who counterfeit (printed paper is not money, it is multiple I.O.U.s) wealth after capturing real wealth via corrupt bureaus, and, let’s be honest - crooks. With this confiscated wealth they can (and do) do as they please.

Please, no comments about “write to your congressman or Senator.” In the first place, I would be surprised if they read it, and more surprised if they did, that they would care, though I’m sure a lot of them can read.

Mr. Reese used the number “545” which was a summation of the House and Senate, the Supreme Court and the President. The column was titled: “545 vs. 300,000,000.” The larger number is (was) the rough population of the “nation.”

The 545 number is the number of the nation’s illustrious representatives of congress; 535 plus 9 “supreme” court justices and the president though so-called (ill-called) “Commander in Chief” of the nation (he is only CIC of the military under certain qualified circumstances contrary to what the modern media geniuses seem to think—NOT the nation).

Speaking of geniuses - the geniuses who were no longer serving a union and were proudly serving a national (ixnay federalism) monster with its breeding bastardized bureaus set (through 1911 and 1929 Apportionment acts) as a permanent number of House seats, 435. Hence today we have so many people represented by a single representative that most everyone is now represented by some clumsy bureaucrat in some ill-administered bureau.

Of course, this is available, as being a nation disallows us from nullification or secession.

Nevertheless, the number could be expanded proportionately (if we insist on having “a nation” instead of a federal union) as they don’t all have to gather in Washington for their graft and corruption. Modern electronic and computer apps allow all to remain in their own state and “Zoom” or whatever. At least we could stop by and chat with them occasionally.

Meanwhile, printed paper is (has been) a means of tax and steal, usually in the name of some false humanity: food stamps, sex-change nonsense, abortions for the needy, giveaways and throwaways ad infinitum and ad nauseum, and wars for Eisenhower’s favorite pirates, the Military Industrial Complex. So today we have a nifty little debt of around $40 trillion, give or take some loose change billions.

It feeds on itself and of course and often by itself. A so-called “federal” government. I call it the Washington D.C. kudzu growth. It is good for bugs and snakes.

And in conclusion, speaking of bugs and snakes (and presidents and supreme court justices), as congress has not taken a raise (cowards) since 2009, they have found a better way to fatten their personal purses, at least it appears implied from rejected congressmen Dan Crenshaw (Texas) - Insider trading.

And most of those Yankees now running South say that secession and nullification were bad ideas. To this I say that I am going to resist the temptation to join the modern public acceptance of profanity. There might still be some adults out there in “the nation.” Besides, down South is that place where Kudzu grows wildly already.


DEO VINDICE

​It is very sad to watch with some kind of emotional hope that the “empire” will find it is (and has been) on the wrong road and will turn around and look “forward.” That last word is bracketed in quotes to emphasize the direction it has been going--and faster and faster - on a wrong road. That reasoning, of course, may only remind one that an empire has always gone (by choice) in the wrong direction because empires are always piloted by madmen toward the end.



The last of most Americans who seem to have understood the difference between Empire and Union are the same ones who live south of the Mason Dixon line and remember that that distinction is more than a geographic line.



Sadly, many now who are north of that line are beginning to race south thinking they have been chased from their homes by American (via lighted cities on hills) socialists and communists who are administering government to their former homes and communities. What fools! Can they not look in the mirror and see the “what” and “who” that has chased them. My God, I have seen bird dogs with more savvy than those people.



I watch Southerners like Mike Huckabee and such ilk promulgate scholarships for illegal immigrants as an atonement for “slavery” but disdain their Southern brethren as unrepentant non-scholar (this now seems to be the current Southern Baptist code—of which I recently fled toward true Calvinism-- teaching in today’s stagecraft pulpits) racists and still deceive true conservatives into voting for the damnable Republican party and its neoconservative crackers! And on this same watch the Linsey Graham scalawags still roost and cheer “empire.”



Old men like me can only shake their heads in disgust at the likes of such cowards. Too old to cry? Maybe. Never too old to fight.


I watch as dangerous clowns like Donald Trump and laughingstocks like Joe Biden et al, lie and steal while cojoined with their “supporters” from the very empire they praise while pretentiously praying for “our” troops as they send them to be slaughtered in unlawful and unholy wars.


I watch as these “leaders” are themselves led (ordered) by foreign countries to engage in these wars.


And I watch as they move into and infect the South, a sect of remaining believers in union apart from empire, and gather in those once wonderful places like Charleston, Raleigh, Dallas and Nashville and as much of Florida as they can contaminate. Palm Beach? A flow of pus on an unattended wound. Rot and more rot!


All of these places are now sick from the Washington D.C. (soon to become a state not of a union but of an empire of monsters) infection caused by its depravity.


A 19th century author, famous for his caring for political liberal manners and comportments saw through today’s neoconservative and Yankee twaddle it would seem years before.
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​And from the man Republicans and Democrats alike have come to defile:

​And, finally from a man who has been quoted as often as any and more than most in the political arena with his famous “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” dispatching in a lengthy correspondence with Lee after the war:

The political party of Republicans, not to be confused with republicans, is giddy with the election of Trump and the “Red Wave,” washing over the “nation” in what continues to be coined as a conservative landslide by, at least some. This wave may be politically red, but if it isn’t cultured with Bonnie Blue, it will be no different from the usual Republican bilge of nationalism, wars, and the old Reagan-Goldwater (claimed-by-them) love fantasy, albeit lying-truth underneath. And probably not conservative. Well, let’s just say: NOT conservative.


The above was written by me after the election in 2024. I shouldn’t say “I told you so,” but nevertheless --I told you so.


We now have a war with Iran. And the truth to be told (since the geniuses at Fox News won’t tell it, or probably more likely, don’t know it) is we will not win this war, and sadly, if we don’t get out immediately will see a number of American boys killed (and praise be to our Washington gods, we can now allow girls to be killed in foxholes).


I won’t spend time with the foolhardy strategy (there is none) nor even the tactics that idiots like Lindsey Graham are screaming about which are almost inapplicable today.


I will say, briefly, that the morale of the Iranians is at a peak. And I believe it was Napoleon who said that morale is ten times all other factors.


As a comparison, up until June of 1941, the Russian people hated Stalin for the psychotic murdering thug who he was. He had murdered or imprisoned millions of his own people in land purges, political purges and via starvation through reckless economics. The Russian people despised him.


But when, on June 22, 1941 Hitler invaded Russia (his own ally) in operation Barbarossa, the Russian people turned on a dime and took up their pitchforks, rifles and whatever Stalin could give them and fought maniacally for “Mother Russia” against the monstrous Nazis. And these Russian people took all orders given from Stalin. Morale hadn’t been so high in Russia since Lenin had gotten them extricated from WWI.


One of the so-called primary reasons DJT and his brilliant political allies, and Pentagon hacks (without Congressional authority, of course) gave for war was what they magically and almost spiritually called a necessary “regime change.”


So, of course they killed the Ayatollah immediately expecting a rebellion and a uprising with the people charging into the arms of the United States (with their you-know-who mid-east partner) for some kind of magical “democracy.”


Only a fool would expect such a result. But then we are talking about the gods of Washington D.C.


This is only one of the reasons that we will not win, nor may we even extricate ourselves for months (maybe years). But it is the main one. Explain foolish tactics or the absence strategy? We are talking about low I.Q. Pentagon prima donnas and its multitude on four star generals.


As far as Morale in America—it stinks. And those Republicans who are not republicans can kiss the elections in the fall goodbye.


The Dems will win and if the borders are reopened, it won’t be the Russians who are coming (you get the point Lindsey?)


There are those who believe that Washington D.C. wants to become a state. Don’t believe it. That place would never lower itself to becoming something as pitiful as a state.

As a brief preface:

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For us old-timers who over the years in school have had to compete with our betters-of-gray matter (there have been many for me) it is difficult to observe the buffoons who are thrown at us from television, radio, etc. posing as media disciples of intelligent thought. These are the same people who provide such verbiage as: “the ‘amount’ of people” or “’less’” numbers” or any number of irregular and/or incorrect grammar or syntax foibles; not to mention the multitude of falsely stated disclosures, such as “antisemitism”(for those who are language prejudiced, I assume) or Israel is “our” strongest ally in the Mideast (I suppose I am too stupid to find what treaty provides us as a wartime “ally” with them). And, of course, by observing this particular nugget of knowledge I certainly am charged as a bigoted fool .


But to conclude the point of this little intro, it was the geniuses of “The Five” on February 12, this new year (this program, of course, is a kissin’ cousin of those other media giants, “Outnumbered” as well as such woeful claptrap as “The view”) that continued the comparison of Minnesota’s recent brawl to the American South and its Confederacy’s “history” of racism and treason, they claim.


But onward to my complaint (not really complaining—just pointing out the obtuse offerings of the media etc.). Complaining about these people is like complaining that you have poison ivy because you had to go into the woods to go squirrel hunting. Nothing you can do except scratch; kind of like Yankees—something natural, like rashes and diseases. You try to avoid them if you can.


But,

One of the group who was on The Five’s Yankee Republican stage that day, Kennedy, I believe (she just goes by the single sobriquet of “Kennedy” with no first or last—a media Paladin-ett, I suppose) blurted out that since Tom Homan had successfully come to Minneapolis and rescued Kristi Noem from the politics of shooting criminals, that Homan could be like U.S. Grant during the “Civil War” when he saved the day. Another of this media intellectual elite, Greg Gutfied, who has apparently learned his history at the knee of The Comedy Hour, stepped in and offered, and supported Kennedy, with the follow-up that Noem would certainly be General McClellan.


Homan, Grant. Noem, McClellan. Get it?


But they really don’t care (nor do they know). Their only wish is to denigrate the South via insults of the Confederacy that they claim was a treasonous group and are to be aligned with various 20th Century “fascists.”


As bad as these people are about understanding Grant and his bloodthirsty mischief, they seem to know far less about McClellan (another subject for these dullards).


I had a sixth-grade teacher as a boy who would get so mad at you when you committed some obviously foolish error that she would get right up in your face, wag her finger at you and bellow: “Paul (or whoever) WHERE IS YOUR GRAY MATTER!”


A good teacher, and we learned a lot. When you see these media outlets today and their mental midgets pontificating, you can only wonder if they even finished grade school.


Naturally the whole bunch cheered almost in a sing-a-long at Kennedy’s analogy as if Dinesh D’souza or Mark Levin were conducting some Republican juvenile delinquent orchestra (the Republican Wagner touch).


It is difficult to watch this elementary school type demonstration with its flagrant and foul notion delivered by people who make (I don’t say earned) hundreds of thousands of dollars to reveal a flawed understanding, if not a downright lie; gray matter be damned!


​And you can be sure that this same bunch are too stupid to realize that their favorite political party will be doomed without the South. And such a notion may not be far off. There are many truthful and capable historians that can unmask the spurious Fox Fivers and the rest of their ilk, if only this media set would listen openly from those who would explain the truth. But they seem not to care. Or maybe they really are as stupid as they offer. Maybe gray matter really is that malnourished with these folks!


Sadly, there are many Southerners that will continue to be fooled because they have locked into part of the media that they believe to be “on the right,” and therefore are RIGHT.


Wrong!


I may or may not be around for the next election, but at this point I am NEVER going to be fooled by these apes again. Not fooled really. It was a kind of foolish trust. And you can be sure that I will never offer these mental midgets of Yankeedom anything close to trust again. I’ve had it with these people.


‘The Five,” “ Outnumbered,” “ The View” ? Gray-Matter’s models of absentia that are lost to gray. 

Is July 4th a date signifying the birth of a nation or the independence of free states? The more we pulsate on July 4th as the birthday of a nation the more we continue to bury what was once a republic.

 
But, more specifically:


Voting rights. The right to vote?


Prior to the 14th Amendment the phrase “right to vote” did not appear in the Constitution. It then appears (again magically) in the 15th Amendment as a not-so-subtle implication, again, that such “right” obviously was intended to draw inference from and for the Yankee mob who had been propagandized to kill and burn in the name of some new nation-to-be-created by old “Honest” Abe and his ilk. Sham righteousness was their flag, and national democracy was their goal, led by old “H-A” and his Northern (mostly New England) mob.


This “Right,” psychologically in place after 1865, and ordered and enforced at gunpoint by national (no longer federal) troops to disarm captives of the South; this new “birth-of-freedom” in its bloody afterbirth largely became the monster national state we serve (we are now the subject, not the object) today.


That is where the race to the voting booth began and our precious and so-called exemplary (of course-tongue-in-cheek) courts took on final authority of the Yankee kingdom. A kingdom where democracy was called king though the king’s court was necessarily attended by ochlocratic orientated stooges who are worshiped to this day as the official legal minds.


And worshiped they have been.


The few responsible men (yes) who had represented and voted in their independent states of the former union (now the nation) now - through political subterfuge -  have been eliminated through the courts and national edicts, i.e. amendments. There are no longer amendments to the Constitution because nullification and secession have been eliminated (at gunpoint). Therefore, each change after the 12th Amendment has been an edict.


Below is typical of the legalistic (and historical) drivel that is found online as well as at libraries, most certainly.


From The Colleges of law: (Boldface is my added emphasis)
 
 
Who Has the Right to Vote?


“There is no constitutional right to vote” sounds like the beginning of a Margaret Atwood novel. But, unlike other rights listed in the Constitution, such as the right of the people to keep and bear arms in the Second Amendment, or the right to a speedy and public trial in the Sixth Amendment, the Constitution may not explicitly give U.S. citizens this beloved “right” to vote.


Scholars disagree on whether the U.S. Constitution gives Americans the right to vote. Some believe that the right is implicit, embedded in the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, and others argue that the right does not exist.


While scholars might not agree whether the Constitution guarantees the right to vote, the U.S. Supreme Court does not hesitate to affirm the notion. In the 1972 decision in Dunn v. Blumstein, Justice Marshall stated, “In decision after decision, this Court has made clear that a citizen has a constitutionally protected right to participate in elections on an equal basis with other citizens in the jurisdiction.” And again in the 1974 Richardson v. Ramirez case, Justice Rehnquist wrote: “Because the right to vote ‘is of the essence of a democratic society, and any restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative government,’… voting is a ‘fundamental’ right.”


Note the timeline above directs most discussion after 1865. And, of course, the grasping at Constitutional “straws and maybes.”


But onward,

Aristotle’s three forms of government and each’s corrupt form:

1. Monarchy—Tyranny
2. Republic –Oligarchy
3. Democracy—Ochlocracy or mob rule

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” Thomas Jefferson


The problem for anarchists in achieving success is that in order to reach their goal they must have an organized effort. In other words, a system which creates its own paradox—organized anarchy. So, it is true of a mob. There is no thought within a mob that defends itself as properly governing anything other than a mob - which cannot be governed, by definition, i.e. that’s why they call it a mob.


This was the tenor in France before finally the mob turned on its own creators and gave them their own up close and personal view of Antoine Louis’s efficient Guillotine. Possibly the first criminal chop-shop.


Today, in Minnesota, Minnesotans have problems created of their own making. And it’s too bad (for them). They cannot nullify ICE, they cannot secede from ICE, nor its Lincoln-created national state.


And they have no one to blame but themselves. It was from Minnesota that some of the same Yankees who fought for the “right” to vote cloaked themselves in some monstrous lie that they were freeing slaves. Never, NEVER, could they see that they were not “freeing” anyone but were, in fact, enslaving everyone in their new birth of freedom.


And it was their Yankee silly-boys such as Hubert Humphrey et al who worshiped the “right to vote” (1965) for everyone (especially down South).


Personally, I say to hell with them. But that’s just me.

I recently read an article in The American Conservative written by Senator Rand Paul wherein he is trying to make heads or tails of the intervention in Venezuela i.e. was it an act of war?


You may read the article if you wish, but I believe you’ll get the same feeling of doubletalk that Senator Paul got with the usual blather of nonsense from The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and its reference to “classified” material, and on and on, with same Washington doublespeak that is its language, its non-communication communication. And, of course, “classified” is a bureaucratic concept that means they can conceal anything they want from the people (what some of us call "taxpayers") as long as they can convince them not to try and form a lynch mob.


If you took such gibberish to the talk shops of radio, cable news, network news etc. you would get some - probably most - of the hosts immediately to throw out the old threadbare nonsense about: 1) The security of the NATION is at stake (classified) or 2) Some nonsense about checks and balances.


The first is disingenuous on its face, if not an outright lie. A NATION of 350 million people cannot be secured except through arrest.


The second is a fool’s errand. The clarity of a ten-year old could realize why.


Sadly, you will hear a defense of the second from one of those geniuses who are championed as “right-wing” bloggers, or podcasters or whatever or whoever with some idiotic statement such as: The Founders (they cannot or will not say Founding Fathers) gave us a almost perfect system of checks and balances to keep our rights from being usurped. Then they will carry on some more about how we were handed a government so great that it overcame the tyrannical rule of a king - AND by damn we don’t want kings! -  they will roar. This screech only covers the fact that they know little of monarchs or their history—especially British history (but that is another topic for another day).


But just for the record I am a bit of a ten-year old myself. (Well, I was once). And to these right wing high-IQ wannabees - I ask the following:


If Congress passes a law that says no citizen can cross the Mississippi River and the president signs the bill AND the Supreme Court (more geniuses) upholds the law, how, without breaking the law, can anyone cross the river?


Please, no nonsense about the Constitution not allowing it. The SCOTUS says the congress and the president were correct in their acts! So, tell me.


Could the law be nullified? Could any of the people secede, and form another government?


The answers are “no” and “no.” That, the bloggers, et al tell us is treason.


Senator Paul, I appreciate your efforts. But you are fighting a losing battle. And you can’t declare such a (battle) war. It would be treason.


​If I were you, I would just return to “Your” old Kentucky home and say to hell with it!

For those mental midgets who constantly turn to the Monroe Doctrine as a defense for whatever the government chooses to do in this hemisphere (see the current hoopla over Venezuela), let them go back to school; that is assuming they have ever been there. The Monroe Doctrine was shot to hell by the national government (USA) many years ago and not by the real federal government (that initiated the MD) which had been rent, charred, burned and vexed by Father Abraham, his New England Yankee Hamiltonian stylists, and his mercenary European (primarily German) socialists.


The national government that replaced the real federal government, of course, is the government that was formed at gunpoint by those union members, members in such (real) federal government, who attacked those in the same federal union who had exited from that union. That real union was, of course, the one that had been voluntarily put together through an agreement in convention (not at gunpoint) and ratified, ultimately by all. The ratification claimed in writing (New York, Rhode Island and Virginia) the obvious concept that the members in said union could voluntarily leave just as freely as they had entered. None of the members would have joined thinking or accepting otherwise, as they had demonstrated more than once.* Such demonstrations did what those who were ultimately forced at “gunpoint” later to cede as their rights of free men via such a demonstration.


These members were forced (at gunpoint) to reunite, not in union, but in amalgamation to the heavenly breasts of the new national god (now, many years later, referred to as The Deep State); now to firmly suckle sour milk on the teat producing a “National Anthem,” and abandoning the sweet nourishment of a republic and its patriotic “Star Spangled banner.”


Wilhelm Richard Wagner, therefore, no longer Francis Scott Key.


And, of course, James Monroe would have been dealing with the British through a union of states and not a single national state.


But back to the Monroe Doctrine:


The doctrine presented by President James Monroe was in conjunction with the British Empire, as coadjutor, who wanted no more European colonization in South America, and the “doctrine” stated that the American Union would not interfere in European affairs, and on the other side the European states would not interfere in Western hemisphere affairs (aside from colonies already established). The hammer that could pound the nail was, of course, the British navy. Left to itself the American federal republican union was not strong enough to support the “doctrine.”


(Of course, after this union became a “democratic national empire-in-waiting” apart from a republican union it went bat-slop crazy with its razing of the MD).


The British and its empire economy had long lived via (and believed in) the economic mercantile system - basically, always export more than you import - and after the successful American secession of 1776 (written erroneously in history as “revolution”) they determined (and probably rightly so) that that same mercantile system worked better with independent nations than with colonized territories, considering the expense of the latter.


Just over 4 decades later and after Southern “Reconstruction” and the spoils of the war of secession gained by the Hamiltonian nationalists (misnomer-ed as federalists) was firmly in place, such little national “freebies-for-intervention” as The Spanish American War; WWI and its offspring: WWII, The Marshall Plan, NATO, The Cold War, and its step-children Korea, Vietnam (afterbirth of a French colonial problem) and on and on with interference directly or indirectly within European interplay and interference spread like wildfire - the Monroe Doctrine be damned. And that doesn’t even bring us to the Yugoslavia bombshell!


And if there are people with a problem in spelling the old Tito communist state, certainly most can spell U.K.R.A.I.N.E.


The “doctrine” had long since become dogma.


In any event it applies for the neocons to Venezuela but not to Denmark. But what the %^&*!


But those same “midgets” to this day and with the same old MIC (military-industrial-complex) cheering along whoever is “the leader of the free world” or “the most powerful man in the world” often mistaken as someone constitutionally named singularly, and only, as “The President,” will ballyhoo the Monroe Doctrine as if it stood as some grand commandment for the honorific bathing in blood by some demigod called “American Exceptionalism.”


Whatever Virginian, James Monroe, had in mind with his then accepted “doctrine,” the legality, or at least the honor have long since been washed away by politicians. Politicians, most of whom would never shoulder a rifle or put on a uniform let alone bother to read history; history not of opinion but of sources.


Perhaps we would be better off with “the most powerful man in the world” being addled. If listening to midgets of mind are the current one’s best advice he gets, then what is the difference?


One thing that old men like me have in common is that we are glad we are old. At least we don’t have to listen much longer to the nonsense from the so-called “two-party system” and its bastard offspring the Washington Media and Deep State.


Tempus Fugit.

“Considered in its essence, union is an instrumentality of power. This fact appears in the common saying that “in union there is strength.” But what is this strength wanted for? Unless it has some clearly understood applicability, the mere preservation of union is a means without an end. And because one of the prime purposes of the idealistic founders of the nation was to check the growth of a centralized, autonomous power, the things that have been done in the name of “Union” might lead one to say that it is the darling of the foes rather than of the friends of the American experiment in free government. H. L. Mencken once observed that there are, of course, advantages in union, but that they usually go to the wrong people. They usually go to the ones whose real interest is in power and the wielding of it over other men. The instrumentality of union, with its united strength and its subordination of the parts, is an irresistible temptation to the power-hungry of every generation. The strength of union may first be exercised in the name of freedom, but once it has been made monopolistic and unassailable, it will, if history teaches anything, be used for other purposes.” - Richard Weaver



The “red wave” of Trumpism seems to fit for the moment if you think of yourself as a conservative. (Many aren’t who call themselves such). And as moments go, it is a better wave of hope than the bitter waves of mendacity that have washed ashore the foreign disease of a national state with its comical contrapositive, wherein national state implies war, and no war implies no national state.


Birth of a nation or death of a union? None are so blind as…etc.


But Trump and any efforts will evaporate, not perhaps due to any undoing of his own but because he is lost in history with no guides around him that will help. There are plenty available, but he will never know them. Like Biden before him he probably has those who guard him against what they call irreverent political thought (like the righteous cause of the C.S.A.) as they suffer delusional historiography learned at the quasi-universities of quasi-education. Or better said, I believe: The halls of poison ivy.



But as the clowns and apparatchiks of the “traditional” party (two, of course) system breathe the fire of nationalism and call it federalism and visit their ire of  fury with their traditional Puritanical (read New England Yankee) upon the real traditionalists, those of  the American South, these same clowns  will sing not “The Star Spangled Banner” of federalism but their “National Anthem” and its harlot bed partner “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”



Nationalists: Whether lock-step or goose-step they go marching on with their fatuous cries of “original sin” (as they go looking for wars to not sin in).


Sin? Original? Damn the sham foolhardy partisan pretense.



“Whereas the Democratic Party in the 19th century was known as the ‘party of personal liberty,’ of states’ rights, of minimal government, of free markets and free trade, the Republican Party was known as the ‘party of great moral ideas,’ which amounted to the stamping-out of sin … This fanatical spirit of Northern aggression for an allegedly redeeming cause is summed up in the pseudo-Biblical and truly blasphemous verses of that quintessential Yankee Julia Ward Howe, in her so-called ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic.’”

“It should be mentioned that the southern United States was the only place in the 19th century where slavery was abolished by fire and by “terrible swift sword.” In every other part of the New World, slavery was peacefully bought out by agreement with the slaveholders. But in these other countries, in the West Indies or Brazil, for example, there were no Puritan millennialists to do their bloody work, armed with gun in one hand and hymn book in the other.” - Murray Rothbard
 

Drowning in wave after wave of political wash from liars and thieves, we can hardly breathe. NO? Are there any in this wash who have not gotten rich after washing ashore to “serve” the people; or have told any appreciable truths about the bankrupted state of their precious “nation.” 


Is the goal, as they swore to, a statement to continue forming a more perfect nation, not union? Or is it one of birthing a bastard child so named “Deep State,” raised as a dragon monster looting the treasury and legalizing debauchery and social decay!


Perhaps the “original sin” was in raping the union and calling it love.


God save the South and its conservative agrarian canons. God’s will be done with the ghost of Lincoln soldiers and his European socialist troopers.


To DJT: Good luck. But remember Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan. And the Bush/Rove bunch (if you can endure it).


If you think the GOP has your back, you aren’t as smart as it appears. The Democrats are certainly democrats but the Republicans dang sure ain’t republicans.  And you can be sure that neither grasp that the Founding Fathers were offering the people of the states a federal idea, NOT a national one.


If the fanciful idea of an “original sin” bandied about by so many is what you say it is, it did not “originate” in the American South but from the source of those who claim that they were most harmed and must have reparations. Internal tribes captured and sold other internal tribes and profited by selling these “others” to seafaring Europeans and New Englanders. And those same people are being duped and bought by “national” swindlers.


But how many waves are a result of natural distant winds, and how many are rogue monsters, sudden and from unknown sources--then or now?


In my time most have been rogue.


​With halls of poison ivy historians conjoined with pitifully untutored and untrained media, not to mention the cowards that manhood has become, rogue is what they probably always will be.

Editor's note: This piece was first published at the Abbeville Institute on August 25, 2016.

Southerners (and there are many who still proudly spell that with a capital “S” even if positioned in the middle of a sentence; we don’t simply think we are that because we live farther south of Canada than the masses in New York et al.) remain steadfast when in a fight, sometimes to the point of leading, like the great champ Rocky Marciano did, with their chin. Marciano got away with it because he had an iron jaw and a dynamite right that with one well-connected punch could floor an opponent. Southerners (The South) have no such combination. Even in 1861-65 when we had Lee, Jackson and a cast of courageous soldiers and men, we still had to depend on skill, footwork and misdirection.


Today the South has not simply allied itself with the Republican party but in fact allowed itself to become “red” states (i.e. Republican) believing that someday–lo just some day– it will deliver a knockout punch. But, this is and always has been folly, rooted in the belief that, just as bitterness at the Reconstruction era led to a “Solid South” pledge to the Democratic party, if now, we remain thickly painted red that the next time a Ronald Reagan comes along (Donald Trump? Good grief!) he will really, really, really…really be fair and allow truths about The South and THE war to be promulgated from the seat of a national government that will sincerely, now, see itself as federal. And suddenly as if by religious epiphany the constitution will reveal its enlightened pages to the democratic masses and (imagine the strains of The Battle Hymn of John Brown’s Republic intoning in the background) the GOP will have saved us from ourselves as well as from all progressives. Solid Republican? Again with the chin. God I miss Charley Reese.


I don’t question that most Southerners feel there is nowhere to go but to the Republican candidate(s); after all, the former recluse for a solidified South, the Dems, is as corrupt and venal as Al Capone and his vermin. The analogy is only to point out that though supporters knew he was warped and perverted they supported him anyway because he provided soup lines for the poor. Hillary is a criminal, but so what? She struggled from White House poverty to amass a hard-earned fortune–Horatio Alger in an orange pant suit. She’s got to be admired! And she’s smarter than Al. He couldn’t duck federal law (of course he didn’t have email).


On the surface a brash fool may sound intelligent and for a moment or two he may so be (like the blind hog and the acorn) but without some soul of guidance he will fail. The most often offered reason for Trump support is the necessity for the “appointment,” (not a singular directive under Article 2) of Supreme Court slots available soon. Just for the record, over the last 48 years, twelve presidential elections, there have been 16 supreme court judges approved and 12 (that is 75%) have been via Republican presidents. Not one iota of constitutional brilliance has been delivered, though a great deal of twaddle has. The constitution is fewer than 5000 words; about the length of an average political essay; but we, the unwashed voters out in the great “democracy-land” (an alien concept to the constitution) are not well-read enough to understand. Therefore, the presidential election devolves (I probably should say degenerates) into a contest of who will get to select great legal masterminds (constitutional scholars they are classified, though about as apposite as the Katzenjammer Kids) who will tell us that which we are too dumb to understand. And in the process of offering such legal wisdom as “the law of the land” does, more votes are delivered to one party or the other.


Originally Solid South worked well right up through Grover Cleveland. However, once taken for granted the party of solidification turned to those great presidential minds: Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy.  Okay, time to turn the South Solid Republican, so swore the new Republican cheerleaders such as Trent Lott. With Solid South Republicans leading the charge Barry Goldwater went down in flames in 1964. But the South, was assured (more Trent Lott et al yammering) that the future was bright. And, following the LBJ corrupted terms, the Solid South Republicans gave (or got): Richard Nixon—strike one; Goldwater-less Ronald Reagan—strike two; and the Bush family—strike three.


Now these same cheerleaders are demanding via a “Never Trump” campaign to “hold your nose and vote for Hillary.” You got to love these guys. I honestly don’t think they know Jeff Foxworthy is a comedian.


The South can keep itself entertained with the “democratic process” (I can’t say enough how ill-suited this process is to Jefferson, Calhoun et al, but I’m trying to make the point) or attempt what it probably will never be allowed to do; that is seek redress through such movements as the Texas National Movement. This, for those unfamiliar, is the South’s old friend Secession, which usually brings on the standard rejection of “We tried that once and it didn’t work.” My answer is, yes it did work. The result was the South was ravaged and beaten for its beliefs by New England Yankees and immigrant mercenaries. But it seceded because it was right–same as the Brits just did.


But regardless of the outcome, the greatly worshiped legacy sought by all winners nowadays, is that he (probably she) will have won an election most voters hoped both would lose.


​Anyway, for now the alternative is Hillary or “The Donald.” Hell, I hope they both do lose. God I miss Charley Reese.

Why is it acceptable for so many Yankees (many of course are notable talk-show and media types )* to leave the state governments (New York, Illinois, California, etc.) under which they voluntarily chose to live and among those of their own kind, and now move down to and among the very people whose ancestors they so often have chastised for leaving a place (Federal Union) that they had voluntarily joined in the first place. After all these Yankees-people volunteered to live in New York, etc., though God only knows why.


Why can’t the federal (read “national” to them) government call today for volunteers under arms to stop such constitutional scholars as Sean Hannity et al from reducing so-called Blue States’ tax base and rupturing the constitutionally established union by leaving (seceding from?) their home state? Why can’t we send these same armed volunteers to arrest (we can’t shoot them, as their ancestors did to us) such traitors who are trying to destroy (via restructuring) the union (again, read “nation” to them)?


Apparently, it is acceptable (Heavens to Murgatroyd, is it legal?) for a citizen to leave his state and move to another state, but it isn’t acceptable for a convening body of people (a state) to leave a union of states and form another union.


These emigrants from Yankee land are the same self-righteous uninformed and uneducated rubes who have figuratively spit on the flags, the culture and the political estates and laws of the newly discovered states down South of which they now want to call home.


And, I ask, in this new home, will you offer to pay for replacement monuments of our honorable soldiers of the Confederacy that you stood by and said nothing about when your blighted Yankee-socialistic brethren (and of course “sister-ens”) aided with and praised conduct when they were removed and/or destroyed?


The reason most seem to offer for exiting is that they are overtaxed, over governed and forced to live under newly formed types of governance that are socialistic. And, by the way, they just can’t stand such a situation in their own home state.


But they have violated their own state constitutions (such as they are) by electing communist mayors, senators etc. This of course is a result of their damnable social gods of so-called civil rights laws which include the madness of right to vote laws.


But this is how these people function. Like termites they eat out the structure of their own home, then look for another meal, whether they be phony academic star gazers like Hillsdale College, or the Sean Hannity types of (he of icon, iconoclast synonymous brain-drain) fumbling, bumbling idle conservative wannabees.


Jackson and Lee knew what these people were. The ancestors of these people and their imported socialistic ilk killed Jackson and made an old man of Lee and called him a traitor.


And these people want to come down South. Fine, just don’t stop at Florida or Texas. Cuba’s just a bit farther. It’s a bit like New York, just a few more rats. You’ll love the place.


But the bad news is: “You cannot leave,” their tax collectors must say to them. And the states receiving them should not want them any more than they wanted Sherman, Grant, Lincoln or any of the other “total war” malevolent beasts of the 19th Century.


This monstrous bunch has been here before. Speaking for myself, I don’t welcome them back.


These people coming will be singing The “National” Anthem, not the Star-Spangled Banner. And they will not only not sing Dixie they will also demand me and mine not sing it either.


I welcome them with not only “Yankee go home” but with “Yankee go to hell!”


Personally, I am not offering any Southern hospitality to them. I offer (speaking only for myself) only Southern hostility.


I say go back home to the Yankee, national socialistic landfills you created. You cannot secede, you dumb Damn Yankees. Secession is illegal, you told us so! And you murdered thousands to prevent it.


But I guess just another Yankee lie learned from old Honest Abe.
 
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*There is a multitude of such ilk and not just the one or two mentioned herein.