Passing

​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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​“The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.”  Charles Dickens, 1862

​And from the man Republicans and Democrats alike have come to defile:

​“Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended, and which justified her struggle for those principles. ” Robert E. Lee

​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:

“I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. The institutions of your Republic (sic) have not exercised on the old world the salutary and liberating influence which ought to have belonged to them, by reason of those defects and abuses of principle which the Confederate Constitution was expressly and wisely calculated to remedy. I believed that the example of that great Reform (sic) would have blessed all the races of mankind by establishing true freedom purged of the native dangers and disorders of Republics (sic). Therefore, I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.”  Lord Acton

It is for these reasons that Southerners, of honorable conservative minds and mindsets, honor men like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis and a host of many in the past who proudly wore the armor of Gray.


It is for this reason that old men like me are saddened, not for ourselves, but for what we leave behind for our families of young men and their young women: a rotted and rotten empire.


DEO VINDICE