Posted on 09/30/2025 7:15:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
James Howard Kunstler ping
That attack on Ft. Sumter had absolutely nothing at all to do with slavery and everything to do with a federal government that was going broke. The south was very prosperous.
Exactly; unfortunately our fellow freepers have been indoctrinated by the Federal Department of Education. Fort Sumpter was attacked because an abandoned revolutionary era fort in Charleston harbor was being re-commissioned by Lincoln and re-manned for the purpose of imposing more and more import/export taxes on the south— which the northern states were not affected by, and which in addition to funding the government greatly benefitted northern manufacturing. Read Mary Chestnut’s diary, freepers, and educate yourselves.
The “nihilists” are zombies. The Walking Dead was a training film.
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our present situation seems to be the exact opposite of 1861
Then the South simply wanted to leave. It wanted nothing from the rest of the country. It had a unified culture, based on its borders, and it wanted to preserve it.
Now the anger arises from a radical group who demands the right to live and thrive off the skimmings of governments and other people’s wealth and effort. There is no clear border, as this degraded culture permeates everywhere. The only border seems to be large urban vs. everywhere else, as “large urban” has enjoyed many decades of skimmings of government and bloated debt born by the nation.
When zombie themed shows hit the television, I felt it was a mass psy-op to normalize killing your neighbors. I have always felt that way. Thet genre was designed, scripted, promoted, and mass marketed to alter our relationships with “others” we find threatening in even the slightest ways.
Neither the Democratic Party nor their Antifa foot-soldiers have a sane and coherent approach to this set of problems.
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Has the democrat ever disavowed the actions of their antifa foot soldiers?
I question tis oft-posited and widely accepted maxim that young people are doomed, have unserviceable college debt, can’t afford houses or cars, etc. I see young people all over the place getting married, buying houses, starting families and enjoying life. The housing construction boom here in North Idaho is just staggering. New subdivisions are being build everywhere and they are quickly sold out. Buyers are young people, not retirees. I meet with lots of companies for various projects and many were founded by young people and they hire lots of even younger people just starting out. Careers are getting launched and go-getters are doing well.
What do others see in their areas? Do you see the young people ennui, woe-is-me, the whole system is stacked against me, I can’t get a job, the boomers stole it all attitude?
Great read!
STATE’S RIGHTS.
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When President Buchanan tried to supply the Garrison with the Star of the West he inflamed the situation
This is probably one of the worst Kunstler takes on a social ill I have read. It is not suburbia and the lack of a car leading to nihilistic rebellion because young people have to drive a 30 year old beater past manicure lawns to get to their gender studies course at the local communism indoctrination center, aka public school and college. It is moral emptiness in broken homes run by single mothers (or commie parents if they have both), public schools, and a democrat party that supports and encourages the violence. Throw in some meth and powerful behavior modifying drugs and you get democrat party terror groups like antifa.
It ain’t suburbia.
Antifa are self-described anarcho-communists, if you believe in something so preposterous you are by default nihilist.
His depiction of American suburbia is ludicrous.
Lincoln and the north could have bought every slave and saved a bloody civil was if they ‘union’ really wanted to end slavery. The emancipation proclamation was just to keep the UK from joining the Southern states. BUT, it has to be distilled to the fantasies of public education to show Democrat Party leader Abraham Lincoln and Barrack Obama had to fight ultra MAGA Donald Trump’s masked nazis who invaded the Northern states to capture more black and brown slaves for their oil plantations.
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