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Make the Confederacy's Defeat a National Holiday (Hurl)
New Republic ^ | April 5, 2015 | Brian Beutler

Posted on 04/06/2015 11:47:50 AM PDT by C19fan

In a speech one month ago, the first black president of the United States challenged millions of white Americans to resist the convenient allure of overlooking the country’s blemished moral record. It was a dual challenge, actually—first to the classical understanding of American exceptionalism, but also to America’s persistent critics, who abjure the concept of exceptionalism altogether.

“What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this?” President Barack Obama said. “What greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self-critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?”

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: anniversary; civil; confederacy; dixie; war
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To: Sherman Logan

Thanks—I had forgotten about Fort Polk (named in honor of Leonidas Polk, not his second cousin President Polk).


41 posted on 04/06/2015 1:14:43 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: C19fan

Did they lose? They’ve got one of their own in the White House.


42 posted on 04/06/2015 1:15:11 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: C19fan
It's good to see the Stalinist drones at The New Republic have found their soul brothers at last in the ISIS guys with their sledgehammers. I'll keep the history, thanks.
43 posted on 04/06/2015 1:15:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: catnipman

So sorry! I must be tired to have misread your post.


44 posted on 04/06/2015 1:17:48 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: WayneS

“Do you really think the democrats have lost their slaves?”

Different sort of slavery now.


45 posted on 04/06/2015 1:17:53 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Verginius Rufus

These Forts and Posts are named after American soldiers.

Americans fought for CSA and USA. I have no trouble with honoring brave men.


46 posted on 04/06/2015 1:26:58 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: C19fan

This is a great idea!

We can call the holiday Unification Day.

Just like on Firefly.


47 posted on 04/06/2015 1:28:54 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: tanknetter

Do you think the air force missing nuke ( last year) that was destined for South Carolina was supposed to send a message? South Carolina led the secession parade and has taken a beating by the federal government ever since.


48 posted on 04/06/2015 1:31:39 PM PDT by x_plus_one
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To: WayneS

Indentured servitude and debtors prisons and bound apprenticeships are all ideas whose time came and went but may be back again. The left has no qualms about economic enslavement. 93 million unemployed people could be put to work to boost the economy. They will fix the deficit, balance the budget and send moslems to the moon in exchange for their ebt cards, abamacare, free birth control and obama-phones.


49 posted on 04/06/2015 1:41:30 PM PDT by x_plus_one
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To: Regal
This was not a squirmnish between states, it was an attack on the US, by treasonous states.

Illiterate.

50 posted on 04/06/2015 1:47:50 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: miss marmelstein

Hello Miss Marmelstein, how have you been? My ancestors fought in The Army Of The Potomac.


51 posted on 04/06/2015 1:48:05 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: C19fan
It's not going to happen. It's just clickbait for trolls.

When writer critic Lee Siegel was disgraced for attacking his own critics under fake identities on the Internet, he tried to stage a comeback with "Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already!"

Running down half the country (whichever half) is just a cheap and easy way to attract attention to oneself online.

52 posted on 04/06/2015 2:02:05 PM PDT by x
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To: reg45

There never was a surrender; it is only a prolonged time out. It was INTENDED to be a surrender until the Yankees decied to make a vendetta out of it.

Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were treated better than the Confederate States were.


53 posted on 04/06/2015 2:15:43 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: C19fan
This is a perfect example of the "inclusion" and "unifying" theme of liberals. Drag up a war that ended a century and a half ago and humiliate the South one more time.

Regardless of whether they were right or wrong, no purpose can be served by this scab-picking except the aggravation of bitter feelings that have not died even today.

Far from unifying, this is the ultimate in divisiveness.

54 posted on 04/06/2015 2:19:05 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: miss marmelstein
it’s a proxy war against the modern day southern conservatives who still uphold American values. By undermining the past, they undermine the present.

You nailed it.

55 posted on 04/06/2015 2:23:14 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: FirstFlaBn

Traitor. Think Beau Berdhal times a few million.


56 posted on 04/06/2015 2:23:16 PM PDT by Regal
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To: Verginius Rufus

As are Fort Gordon, Fort A.P.Hill, Fort Lee.


57 posted on 04/06/2015 3:21:50 PM PDT by X Fretensis
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To: Sherman Logan

By agreement reached in the 1880s, Forts in the old Confederacy were to be named only after Confederate Officers.


58 posted on 04/06/2015 3:23:10 PM PDT by X Fretensis
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To: X Fretensis

That’s interesting. Do you have more info on the specifics?


59 posted on 04/06/2015 3:26:54 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: NTHockey
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were treated better than the Confederate States were.

Maybe they weren't sore losers?

60 posted on 04/06/2015 3:30:56 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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