LOL!
I haven’t posted on one of these threads in a long time, mainly because I’ve been ill, but I see that the PC-Cons (Politically Correct Conservatives) are still going strong.
Really, there was no significant concern over displaying a Rebel Flag until the early 1990s. Even most “liberals” didn’t get their little panties in a twist over it since they didn’t see it as an issue that could be used to divide the GOP.
That all changed when race-baiting leftist Senator Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois played the race card during a routine renewal of the congressional trademark for a Confederate women’s organization. The renewal had been expected to pass on a non-controversial voice vote, but Moseley-Braun, who had built a political career in Chicago by painting herself a victim of “racism”, hit the floor and began howling about how horrified she was that a logo containing a Rebel Flag was being given congressional sanction. She even pretended she was about to faint. Her Democrat colleagues immediately winked at one another, realizing that Moseley-Braun may have just struck gold with a new issue for leftists to use to bash and smear conservatives. So Senator Dianne Feinstein ran over and “held” Moseley-Braun up during the rest of her tirade, lest the poor little “racism” victim collapse in a heap on the floor.
If the GOP had simply stood firm and defended the logo as a harmless symbol of many people’s ancestry and heritage, the Moseley-Braun ploy would likely have failed. But as with the current immigration bill, the mere charge of “racism”, no matter how phony, sent about half of the Republicans scurrying for cover. Thus about half of the GOP senators, all of whom were prepared to vote for the trademark renewal just minutes before, did a big 180 degree turn and joined Moseley-Braun in denouncing the “shocking” idea that a symbol of “hate” would be granted a congressional patend. About half the GOP stood firm, but the defections, combined with nearly all the Democrats, sent the renewal bill down to defeat.
From that point on, the left knew it could turn most Republicans into a quivering mass of jelly by accusing them of supporting the Rebel Flag. They also knew that GOP abandonment of the flag wouldn’t gain the party a single additional vote from blacks (the supposed “victims” of Rebel Flag displays) but would cost them conservative votes. And the left also counted on PC-Cons to carry their agenda onto conservative forums such as FreeRepublic. PC-Cons desire nothing more than to be patted on the head by “liberals”. They live and breathe to be assured by “liberals” that they’re good, nice conservatives and not the evil, hate-filled variety (like Ronald Reagan).
And, most important of all, once a large portion of the GOP chose to side with the left on the Rebel Flag issue, it set in motion a process that will inevitably lead to the American Flag and the Bill of Rights being voided, and our Founding Fathers being demonized. Old Glory flew over the institution of slavery longer than any flag of the Confederacy. So in about twenty years (it’s a little early for the push to begin right now) we’ll be told that the American Flag “offends” blacks (because of slavery & Jim Crow), Latinos (because the flag was waved by the people who “stole the southwest from them”), Asians (because the flag flew during the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Japanese internment), Native Americans, etc, etc, etc....
Anyone who doesn’t see this coming is blind.
And the Founding Fathers....Washington, Madison, Jefferson, et al....will have their statues & memorials cast down, have their names purged from public buildings, and so on. Not now, not next year, but within the lifetime of the younger members of this discussion board. And the Bill of Rights (”the insidious work of slave owners”) will be voided.
And it won’t just be the kooky left doing these things. The PC-Cons will join right in. A few might wake up, but most won’t. They’ll be right here on FreeRepublic accusing supporters of the American Flag of being insensitive to the feelings of people of color (at best) and of outright race hatred (at worst).