Author's Note: This was written 5 years ago for the Abbeville Institute, but is just as applicable today with various cities “defending federalism” against ICE.
 

The political structure in the United States is often portrayed by the media and its guests via a histrionic history of federalism. However, it seems, no historian or commentator can speak without referencing Southern (and only Southern) racism. And history is always linked, era to era, as Conservative vs Liberal vs Southern. It is often linked as Republican versus Democrats vs Southern Democrat and/or Southern Republicans. This is a philosophical catch-all. This “catch-all” wants Southern votes but not conservative philosophy. No Neo-Confederates allowed - whatever that is - according to Victor Davis Hanson.


Hanson’s is possibly the most vocal voice of histrionics hidden behind history in his affected ivory tower of Stanford lore (though Mark Levin is chasing him like Sham after Secretariat).


Hanson cannot resist denigrating the South, particularly through his effete blustering about its racist attachment to the “Lost Cause.” His is a superficial study of the Southern cause, and its belief in the original political structure of the Union of States i.e. the States, United, A.KA The United States. This now seems to mean Democrats and Republicans.


Recently on Tucker Carlson’s program (4-14-20), Hanson used one of his favorite verbal shibboleths, “Neo-confederate.” He was referring, on Carlson’s program, to those mayors of cities in any state who acted outside federal direction. That is those mayors ordering people to stay at home. Most of these mayors happen to be Democrats.


These same mayors, Hanson implies, are acting in the same light as the secessionist South did in 1861.


However, he harps on racism but ignores his own racism. No? His comments typically refer to Jim Crow (a Northern creation - see Pulitzer prize winner The Strange Career of Jim Crow) while assigning it (Jim Crow) to the South during and post 1861-65. In other words, racism to Hanson is a continuous stream from the past to the present with never a break in Southern thought about race. And, certainly, it is a Southern intrinsic characteristic to be a racist if the Southerner supports secession.


In other words, the South was both before and after the war, racist. Therefore, it is not conservative; at least not among decent Southerners. Conservatives need Southerners only for their votes it seems.


When Hanson says Neo-Confederate he means racist. And, he could never support racism, unless of course, the racist is Leland Stanford.


​Hanson thrives upon his promoted position as being, “The Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.” So, though Leland Stanford died in 1893 he still must retain the stain of racism, just as the Southern people must. And, of course, Hanson’s devotees must as well, as per Hanson’s standards.

Hanson has aligned, as he often does, Southern secession with both an unconstitutional act and a racist one. Therefore, the South was traitorous and such treason was due to a racist society. They could not both keep and beat their slaves by leaving the union.


And this mischief has carried into the 21st century. That is, the South is and will always be racist. Such is inherent to the Southern people, be they Democrats or Republicans.


And non-racists conservatives like Hanson could never entertain secession today as did racists slave owners in the past like John Hancock. Hancock, of course, would be the big signature on the SECESSION document, The Declaration of Independence.


But then Hancock was not Southern. Therefore, he is guiltless and stainless in Hanson’s eyes, just as good old boy Leland is racism-spot-free. And Stanford was, and Hanson is, from California, the land of love, love, love.


And Hanson doesn’t seem to be bothered by Calexit. Go figure. Just a clever little “California Dreaming.”


If Hanson knows as little of the creation of the Constitution as he does of the Declaration of Independence, it is little wonder he doesn’t understand federalism.


If Hanson understood federalism, he would recognize that municipalities (mayoral authority) have no federal connection apart from state action upon that municipality. But Hanson’s animus toward the South and its racist folks possibly leads him blindly into history.


After all, the Constitution and the federal government were creations of those states - not the other way around. But the histrionics of Southern racism are more worshipful than accurate history. So, federalism must be disposed of because it is (down South) racist.


And, seemingly just as important, what does Hanson not understand about racism and the “Woke” monument mobsters?


Should Hanson not lead a protest march to remove such racists monuments as are structured at Stanford?


It shouldn’t be much trouble to round up some protest animals from Antifa, or The Southern Poverty Law Center, or the San Diego Zoo to tear down and remove the hideous racist monument: The Leland Stanford Mausoleum.


Have a nice day, Victor, you neo-federalist, racist, rascal you.

It seems to be the liberal, socialist, progressive, Democrat…whatever the appellation of the moment… working in their always-vegetated state into some silly project or cause for society - no matter, the lunatic levers needed to execute said project. For this article let’s settle on “Liberal/Karens” as the objects of deserved ridicule.

 
If you have a dog, and you don’t live in the country (where sanity still reigns somewhat) it is a necessity (and a pleasure) to walk them from time to time.


But the Liberal/Karens de rigueur movement of the last few years is to carry little plastic poop bags and gather up “Fido’s” former meal and remove it from the ground (Hmmm, I thought they wanted the earth to be greener—guess not).
 

And in typical Liberal/Karen fashion, the process is now almost a religion, with the priestesses, Mother- Liberal/Karens out and about to be the poop police.
 

Recently, I was walking my good friend Hank, who enjoys a good walk and a happy-go-lucky poop, 2 or 3 times a day when he stopped to make a happy pile. I hadn't noticed until I heard a lady from across the street, her own pooch-on-leash, in tow, holler "DO YOU NEED A BAG?" To this query, she waved one of those little plastic zip-lock baggies above her head. I supposed she had been watching me to see if I was loaded with a baggie supply. I carry neither zip-locks nor masks.
 

But to be polite I answered her: “NO.”
 

This, of course, brought us into distant, albeit polite, conversation (hollering across the cul de sac).


She: “DON’T YOU WANT TO PICK UP YOUR DOG’S POOP?”


Me: “NO. I HAVE NO USE FOR IT. YOU MAY HAVE IT.”


She: Nothing clearly audible to my old ears, but it sounded in the nature of “Hrrrump,#$%^&.” Her dog continued walking her. And I continued walking Hank.


We remained on opposite sides of the street,


I have tried to imagine what these people do with their dogs in their own yards. Do they go outside and pick the poop up?
 

This is somewhat how the liberal mental machinations work, I suppose. One teaches his (I don't do the "he/she" nonsense) dog to poop outside—called being housebroken—but then when the pooch poops outside, the owner must go outside, pick it up and bring it inside, I suppose. Inside, of course, is where it (the poop) was not wanted in the first place. But, Liberal/Karens? Go figure.
 

Why not just try and potty train Pooch instead of house-breaking Pooch? Again, liberals/Karens—go figure.
 

I can see the reasoning of poop scoopers in concrete meccas like New York City or Washington, D. C. (D.C. is full of s***!). Even down in Houston, we clean up after the greatest show on earth, The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Certainly, New York's sidewalks should get a poop-scoop when necessary. After all, a shoeshine still costs something to a non-dog owner. D.C.? Who knows? Who cares? Again, they are full of s***!
 

I have been on many Texas cattle ranches and have yet to see a cowhand picking up cow patties and putting them in plastic bags.
 

But this craziness of a ritualistic dung dance around their canine cupids with plastic bags stinks (pardon the pun-ish treatment).
 

Do these people have any idea how many pounds of crap are dumped during any 24 hours in their yards or onto the easement in front of it? I doubt there are EPA numbers on the subject (bureaucrats are not agrarian bent). Among God’s enumerable creatures you can be sure that during the course of 24/7, a wonderous number of possums, coons, coyotes, feral cats, armadillos, squirrels, not to mention the hundreds and hundreds of birds that bomb the place, routinely, leave their happy piles for your yard. And pounds and pounds of it.

 
This is really part of a green new deal.
 
A recent posting (by me) on FB: