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Do they dream of a reborn medieval European chr*stendom, or a reborn early-federal-period enlightenment/Masonic United States of America? Do they want a virtually nonexistent government or something like the strong, paternalistic governments of Franco, Salazar, and Petain that will preserve the purity of the ethnoculture? Or they for or against free trade? (It is forgotten by today's Buchananite Confederacy-partisans that "free trade" was one of the doctrines most dear to the real Confederacy.) Are you for Jeffersonial localism or against it when a Hispanic border town votes to make Spanish (the language of Franco!) its official language?

LOL! You’re going to make a few heads explode with this paragraph.

[Elihu Burritt]

It is to be remembered that the ideas of the Founders as expressed in the Declaration are vastly different than the ideas of the fathers of the Constitution, and even more different from the interpreters of the Constitution (SCOTUS). Yes, the Confederacy and the great plantation were the founding role model for American Socialism, not the far purer notions of the old German tribes regarding equality and social responsibility. The Rock upon which the Confederacy foundered was states rights, just as the rock upon which the old Constitution foundered was slavery. Sectionalism, as it was called, dominated philosophy in the 19th century, but could not overcome it either. The great sins of the Confederacy were interventionism, aristocracy and the rule of an elite, racism and big government, yet it's memorializers put forth the revisonism (written by the old Democratic Party) that this was not the case. No wonder so many are confused.

The Republican Party as founded upheld strongly the virtues of the Founders. Non-interventionism (as opposed to isolationism per se), Fiscal responsibility (almost every abolitionist speech cites a long litany of the ills of government mismanagement), equality of all men on the simple premise that any man, no matter what his abilities or status or nature, will thrive on freedom as compared to what he would be in chains. In 1860 these ideas remained categorized as the far left, yet today our far left considers them as questionable notions, and our right, stock full of old Dixie-crat notions and illusions, can't deal with them either. Above all, on left and right today, it is the notion that an individual is somehow truly not suited to taking care of himself that drives forward the undermining of our most noble concepts.