Who is lying? Republicans, Then or Now?

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​"The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status. If they break from this, they can only do so against law and by revolution. The Union, and not themselves separately, procured their independence and their liberty. By conquest or purchase, the Union gave each of them whatever of independence and liberty it has. The Union is older than any of the States, and, in fact, it created them as States." – President Abraham Lincoln - July 4th, 1861

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“It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.” (Emphasis added) President Ronald Reagan - 120 years later

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“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.