I am an American of entirely Southern Stock
All my ancestry I’m aware of are English French and Ulsterscots
Until I came here I never knew there were so called conservatives who hate the South and actually live to foment the sort of cultural degradation we are now experiencing about the South and traditional America by extension
I have countless dead confederate ancestry and make no apologies and will defend them here with vigor
So yes I push back in that area particularly I emphatically admit
But Free Republic is way too often a Scold Forum
No question
I found Bourdains progressive virtue signaling off putting and when he went to Mississippi he was duplicitous and ugly to friends of mine at Luscos in Greenwood accusing them of 60 year old racism
He was a charictature of a Manhattan liberal but I watched a good bit with mute button in hand
That crazy woman musta put a spell on him
He just caught her apparently waivering with another man
He kills himself hence I get no joy from that
There are aspects of his life I was envious off, it’s just depressing
Despair can be a beast
The Left believes that they are superior to the rest of us in heart, mind and soul. Along with rewriting history. (the Civil War is just scratching the surface) They believe that they should decide what the new world order looks like. Whether it is a manufactured crisis such as “global warming”, calling anyone who disagrees with them racists or worse, or completely forgetting about the 100 million of their own people that Communist regimes have murdered... they believe that they are the rightful arbiters of the past and the future. Yet they have no answers, and so many of them end up killing themselves. That alone should be a warning to those who want to follow those on the Left and their way of thinking.