Rand Paul is an idiot. The Confederate flag represents the states that had the courage to defy the feds and declare that the states had the right to govern themselves. Too bad they lost. It never was about slaves, only about States Rights.
If a person would stop and think about it, the south
only wanted to leave a voluntary union, no one told
them there was no turning back. So what we have is
a federal organism coercing by forced oppression.
So/Com dialectic doesn’t permit opposing views,
NOW or in the past and it will only get worse
as it “progresses”.
It also represents, to our poorly educated masses, a cause for which a whacko boy will whack 9 Christians without fear or repentance. The association, however true or false, for decades has been clearly brought to bear on that symbol.