Enemies: Max Boot and Jeff Jacoby Vomit Hatred Towards the South; Time to Ditch the GOP?

Ruins of Richmond, 1865

Two alleged conservative writers, Max Boot and Jeff Jacoby, have written hateful and extremist views about the Confederacy, its heroes and its flags.  Both show unfathomable ignorance of history, as well as extreme cultural intolerance to those who value Southern heritage.  Rhetorically, they are pissing on the graves of our ancestors and advancing disunity and resentment among their own base.

Reading their screeds makes it feel like Sherman's march to the sea all over again, destruction of people and property in its path; or the burning of Atlanta just for Yankee spite, or the many war crimes against Southern civilians in 1861 - 1865.

They hate our guts.  There is one problem.

They are Republicans, and the overwhelming majority of Confederate-Americans are also Republicans.  I have been a lifelong Republican, and the anti-Confederate hysteria over the past three weeks has shaken my political loyalties to the core.  I am willing to jettison the GOP, who no longer seem the party of freedom to me.  They seem the party of hate and oppression and brute force, the thugs in blue uniforms with their giant mortars and cannons and bummers with lighted torches.  Having once burned and looted our cities, farms, private homes and even our universities, they want to complete the job by desecrating the graves of our dead.

For the upcoming elections of 2016, we Confederate-Americans can do one of three things.  We can vote for Donald Trump, not because he supports Confederate heritage, but because he isn't a knee-jerk mainstream, backstabbing Republican.  Let us use Trump as a way of getting even for the recent attacks on our heritage.

Sherman Burns Atlanta, 1864

A second alternative is simply to sit out the next presidential election, and let nature take its course.  There are around 16 million Americans of Confederate descent, and many more who identify with Southern symbols and flags from living in the South.  These are the people who make up the "Solid South," whose support is essential for a GOP win in 2016.  If the GOP excludes us from America, we can remove ourselves as voters, at least temporarily.  Time to put the fear of God into the Party of Lincoln.

Rather than sit out the election, however, I would suggest a third alternative, writing in the name of Democrat Jim Webb of Virginia, who supports Confederate heritage.  Jim Webb is a conservative Democrat and would make a fine president.

Read more about the Boot/Jacoby obscenity at Rebellion blog, here, and at the Abbeville Institute blog, here.

Feeling Alienated: Pray For a New Secession

Yankee Hatred Then As Now

Let's see....Congress is voting on banning the Confederate flag from federal cemeteries.  Illegal aliens are to be allowed to vote (if the left has its way).  Radical white-hating blacks vote to dig up Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from their graves in Memphis.  The IRS and DOJ were conspiring to put conservatives in jail during the last election cycle. Christianity is being increasingly suppressed and replaced by a love of the State.  Plans are underway to rename U.S. forts named after Confederate generals, e.g., Fort Bragg, Fort Benning, Fort Hood. Monuments to the Confederate dead are being removed. Streets and schools are being renamed to erase any memorials to Confederates.

It's gotten so bad that radical white-hating blacks are now demanding the removal of Thomas Jefferson's memorial in Washington, D.C., and the renaming of Washington, D.C. (both Jefferson and Washington were slave owners).

This race-based hysteria has reached depths never previously attained in American history.  Never before have politicians and "civil rights" race-hustlers assaulted so assiduously the traditions, culture and history of the South.  What we are witnessing is an outpouring of hate, intolerance and ignorance by one segment of the population against another.  The Confederate flag is not so much a symbol of hate, but its target.  Indeed, it was largely this sectional hatred of North against South that brought on the last Civil War.  It may very well bring on the next.

Each day brings fresh outrages, and I read about them, dumbfounded, shocked and sickened.  Tonight, as I sit here at my table, I have to ask myself:  Am I proud to be an American?  The answer is no. Do I have any optimism for the future of this country?  Again, the answer is no.  Do I feel any patriotism for the USA?  Not very much.  Am I motivated to get out the vote for Republicans?  No.

About the only thing I could get excited and motivated about is secession.  I would love to see Texas lead the way.  I would love to see various states flip off the federal tyranny on their way out the door.

We can no longer hope to save the America that once was -- but we can save pieces of it -- through secession.  Instead of seeing the Confederate flag as a disdained memorial to long-dead and defeated soldiers, I want to see it flying proudly and lively over every state capitol in the South -- as the national flag of a new Southern Confederacy.