This was prompted / triggered by recent horrors and by a comment in the Dallas thread that this was like being in a war: The below may be a bit jumbled, but I’ve tried for years to establish the context against which the last 150 years has to been understood.
Enough prologue to the prologue or I’ll start again ;) — probably a rough ride, and lost in the recents, but see you...?
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Not a war: an instigation of war, a provocation — a demand FOR war.
No-one wants to talk about it EVER, but there are at barest minimum 100,000 individuals in this country who believe in a racial ‘war of cleansing’ in which “we” will return to a nation where “people know their places — and keep to them”
They have been planning, dreaming and praying and working for it since the ‘defeat’ of the Slaver Rebellion...and it JUST WON’T COME, DAMMIT!!!
Just like Jesus….
This is not a joke: these people are not crazy, and they are not stupid: the ones driving this are not ‘racists’ in the sense that they hate/fear blacks: ranchers do not ‘hate’ the livestock….It’s not hyperbole or exaggeration or word-play when I call these people SLAVERS...it is what they are, it’s what they want AND THEY MEAN TO HAVE IT BACK ...augmented now by the melding with the Industrialists, and a system of wage-slavery and social repression so built-in and painted-over with patriotism that we simply can’t SEE it, even when we know it’s there, and and we’re looking for it. It has been polished since “the South lost”
I grew up in it, violently rejected it and lost my family over it, have been examining it for most of my life, but they’re close — THIS ELECTION close — to having all three branches of government and rolling back the entire Twentieth Century.
They are certainly patriots: what they are NOT is Americans.
They are Confederates. THAT is the country they want back — and all the land under it, and all the people on it.
I hate that this sounds so wild-eyed and ‘imaginative’, but I was raised by and for them, by a planter family — that is, a Slaver family and grew up plainly seeing the class divisions & power structure, the religious hypocrisy AND sincerity that I suppose is what allows them to consider themselves to be human, noble, nature’s aristocrats, and all others to be either ultimately expendable. I have been watching closely from a young age, and have puzzled for most of my life why I learned so early to despise and distrust the people I grew up around, to spot the bullying, the contradictions, the nod-and-wink gaslighting (plausible-deniabilty wrapped in the gracious Southern manners covering the whip, the club, the noose, even in my childhood).
Everything unique or peculiar to the Old South is related to the fact that the South never surrendered; Appomattox was an armistice: they simply agreed to stop shooting & go home, and pretend we were all on the same side again...but the Slavers never gave up, haven’t given up yet. They ARE the ‘Old Boys’ in the “good ‘ol boys network”, the White Citizens’ Councils, the Klan, and crucial parts of public and private infrastructure throughout the region.
They ARE why the South is the way it is, and they’ve happily helped make life for most of the people in the country much more miserable that it ought by any right to be...and they’re not called “the Dixie Mafia” for nothing
This is real: 100,000 mad zealots with guns, other munitions, military training of some kind, friends as nuts as themselves (the Bundy Gang), their own inflammatory Imams demanding that they “take back the Kingdom” and replace the heathen constitution with the Holy Scripture.
...and they’ve spent so much of their lives
It is Christianity (of a sort) in league with the Devil.
(wow, I’ve been trying to figure out how to start writing this out for so long, and…wow.)