Posted on 08/28/2017 7:32:14 PM PDT by SJackson
“Unite the Right” was a bad choice of names for the anti-Semitic rally that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend. The movement has nothing to do with conservatives and is the result of the left’s continued efforts to change history.
The Grand Old Party is the party that was formed with the sole purpose of ending slavery. It is the party that delivered Abraham Lincoln and fought for the end of slavery. One-hundred years later, it was the party that cast the votes for the Civil Rights movement and later for the rights of women to vote. It’s not the party that’s about to give it all back because of a few extremists claiming to be conservatives.
The problem with the alt-right, is just that. They are an alternative to conservatism, and clearly not a good one. They loosely espouse their misaligned values based on the premise they claim to embrace the Constitution. If you are truly someone who embraces the Constitution, you would understand the rule of law rather than the rule of man.
Democratic Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signor was quick to point out that the violence in his city was the fault of President Donald Trump. He should consider that the other three fingers were pointing back the other direction. Once again, the liberal policies of erasing history ignited a flame that wasn’t necessary to light.
The city voted to eliminate its horrible ties to the past of siding with the slave owners during the Civil War. The city voted to rename Lee Park to Emancipation Park and, ultimately, the removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee. While there still are groups like the Klu Klux Klan who may view Lee as a crusader, they also are missing the opportunity to teach future generations that it was Lee who surrendered at Appomattox to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
There are numerous problems with Signor’s position to eliminate American history’s ugly side. Signor’s Democrats fail to recognize that statues and monuments are not all about the glory side of any debate. Lee was an American soldier who decided to defend his state rather than side with the Union. Lee ended up on the wrong side of history. His battles serve as lessons to the other side of history and the war wasn’t entirely about slavery.
Lee’s decision to defend the South, rather than defend the Union, was strictly based on his belief in states’ rights. Lee’s family was pro-Union and his decision to fight for the South wasn’t based on his support of secession, it was based on his belief he needed to defend his home state. Lee’s family home was seized by the Union and turned into Arlington National Cemetery. If we are going to continue eliminating our past, then how do we deal with the more than 400,000 buried with honors at this site?
There is no justification in promoting any effort that supports one race over another. The frustration of so many people is that “equal” is no longer “equitable.” It has become one person’s rights over another’s.
The progressive movement believes that you have to create privileged opportunities for people of race, sex, or any other so-called diminished class. This liberal push has created inequities among average Americans trying to vie for opportunities in the same place. It doesn’t matter to the average person if you are black or white; it matters that everyone is given the same opportunity. Creating that opportunity based on skin color is not equitable for anyone looking for the same leg up.
If the left wants to continue to erase America’s conflicted past when it comes to race, they will bring the country back to a time of racial ignorance the KKK seemingly enjoys. When KKK Supreme Leader David Duke ran as a Democrat in 1988, he was rejected by everyone on the left (he did, oddly enough, win the New Hampshire Vice Presidential primary). In 1992, he ran as a Republican. Duke won zero delegates in the attempt. His position is clearly not populist.
Duke also has tried to tie events in Charlottesville to President Trump’s presidential victory, but even that attempt is failing.
History is our only evidence that supports our laws against racism. The rule of law over rule of man must prevail, but won’t if we continue to erase the evidence.
Yes, they switched. It’s like magic.
And they seem to truly believe it.
The words “Southern Strategy” is all they need.
Point out Bill Clinton’s progressive Democrat mentor, the famous Senator William Fulbright, was a segregationist who never switched parties and you get silence - or acknowledgement that he didn’t but all the others did, they’ll say.
Point out Al Gore’s segregationist Senator father filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights bill and he didn’t change parties, nor did his politician son. Again, yes, but he’s an exception.
Go through dozens of racist liberal southern Democrats who had long careers and continued to be elected well after the civil rights era, they never changed parties.
Still, no matter.
Get to Strom Thurmond and a-ha — see that proves it all.
I’ve never managed to give more than one example before the lib either start shrieking LIAR!!! or slammed the phone down.
It’s like showing a cross to a vampire, sorta.
:D
Lazy dem swine should have picked their own damn cotton or paid White men a fair wage to do it for them. That would have spared our nation certain ongoing problems. I guess picking cotton was one of those fabled "jobs Americans won't do".
And now they hire illegals on the cheap. Nothing changes.
Yep. Cheap/free labor ain’t cheap or free. You’d think the events of 1861-1865 kinda proved that, huh?
Slightly off topic, but very interesting: https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/wmt-weapon-of-mass-triggering/
” Yep. Cheap/free labor ain’t cheap or free”
It’s nearly free to the wealthy few, but the middle class whites pay for their welfare and crime. We get screwed on BOTH ends !
Good point.
Exactly.
Sort of like how we still get to pay for the “Civil War Contraband”...
“...the middle class whites...”
What’s left of the middle class, at any rate. The communist liberals have pretty much decimated the middle class in this country.
They want the wealthy (themselves) and the rest of us dirt-poor broke, subservient, dependent, and at each other’s throats.
I have a dream... One day, folks wake up and realize exactly who it is that’s screwing us all over.
And then they take matters into their own hands...
You like that, huh?
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