Back with my wife in Tennessee
One day she said to me
Virgil quick come see, there goes Robert E. Lee
Now I don’t mind choppin’ wood
And I don’t care if the money’s no good
Just take what you need and you leave the rest
But they never should have taken the very best
The Confederate statues the liberal class have been tearing down were constructed to reunite the nation. To declare the hatchet buried, and heal the bitterness of the Civil War by emphasizing the pride and honor of both sides in that horrible war.
Midwit, unhinged liberals will never understand war or honor. We’ve seen this in their reaction to the Russo-Ukraine war. There will never be enough dead Ukrainians to justify capitulation and peace. Robert E. Lee ended the Civil War when it became clear the Confederacy couldn’t win and he refused to watch his soldiers continue to die for no reason. None of that honor and duty is on display in Ukraine, thanks to the guns held to the head of Zelensky not just by his neo-Nazi handlers within but also NATO without. The entire enterprise is a shameful disgrace and should never have happened.
As we have seen over the years since Trump’s 2016 victory: Russiagate, the BLM riots, Covid, the liberal class has thrown off its humanity and consciously decided that victory at any cost is the only rule. They’ll burn cities, lock people in their homes with little access to jobs or money for years, force dangerous medical treatments on an entire populace and threaten punishments such as placement in concentration camps, loss of access to healthcare, jobs, food, etc for those who refuse to comply. And they lie, lie, and keep lying in the face of every truth to gain political advantage.
They continue to prop up a demented old man who should be in a nursing home pretending he can play president for another four years. Unity in that project is crumbling but the battle is far from over. Dehumanizing perceived enemies, constantly discovering alleged fifth columnists even within their own ranks… its an entire class, a class that holds immense political power, that has lost its grip on reality.
In response to this most Americans have tuned out as much as possible: keeping their heads down and quietly praying for the mania to pass. In most situations this strategy has a high probability of success. When two opposing camps are preparing for all out war finding a place to hide out for the duration is a kind of common sense. Unfortunately I don’t think this strategy is quite so sensible given the current realities. Hiding in the basement of a house that is burning down is unlikely to end well.
These were the thoughts running through my head during the recent, newly minted, Juneteenth holiday that deprived me of a day’s pay. So I decided to look up the origin of this holiday. It turns out the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln in January 1863 only applied to slaves held in states and regions under Confederate control. This meant that slaves in Texas and other states were not technically freed by the Proclamation and most were not even aware that the Proclamation had been enacted. It was only in mid 1865 when General Granger of the Union Army arrived in Galveston that the roughly 250,000 slaves in Texas were freed. The order establishing this fact was issued by Granger on June 19th of that year.
Most Americans, including most blacks, never knew the significance of this date and the conjuring of Juneteenth as a national holiday was a top-down affair. Regardless, as a real date when something real happened it beats Kwanzaa, which was invented in 1966 by a guy named Maulana Karenga. Karenga, a black nationalist and professor at UC Long Beach, invented Kwanzaa out of whole cloth. It is alleged he had CIA and FBI ties though this is disputed. One theory is that the CIA and FBI promoted Kwanzaa as a distraction from black radical movements of the era such as the Black Panthers.
The real danger we face, and why the radical left is more dangerous than the right, is that by definition the left’s function is to tear down the constructs that bond a culture together. This destruction is all justified with a flimsy utopian vision: a vague hand-wave towards a paradise that will surely flower once all of the foundations that tie us together are torn out like the roots of a delicate plant. The inherent contradiction is obvious to anyone not in the grip of leftist ideology. There are always problems in any society. The job of the lefist is to tease out and emphasize those problems: to show them to be vastly worse than any of us realize. Lying, exagerration, and distortion is always justified in service to the grand project whose only solution to all this tragedy is to destroy that culture and watch as a new utopia rises like a phoenix from the ashes.
That is why, despite the horrific death toll the Nazis inflicted on Europe during WWII, the utopian plans of Josef Stalin and Mao Tse Tung killed far more. It is estimated that 60 million died in WWII, including the holocaust of Jews, Slavs, and Catholics. Stalin’s death toll is unknown but is estimated at anywhere from 20-30 million, and Mao’s death toll ranges from 30-80 million, most dying of starvation during the “Great Leap Forward”. What a leap it was.
There is no honor in cultural and societal destruction. They call Hitler a fascist but his vision was no less utopian than that of Stalin or Mao. The only distinction I can discern is that Hitler committed his utopian slaughter in the name of the German volk and a vaguely pagan cultural vision rather than a “pure” ideology like communism. Rather arbitrarily, the Nazis are considered racist and therefore “bad” while the communists were (allegedly) not racist and therefore “good”.
As long as your totalitarian project, and the inevitable attendant mass slaughter, is in the name of anti-racism it is justified. If it’s even happening. Which it isn’t, unless it is, and then it’s good.
Impoverishing white Americans is good because it’s anti-racist because white people (the bad ones who aren’t rich) are racist. Their inevitable reaction to mass immiseration is only more proof that they are racist and bad, and thus further punishment is justified and good. This will go on and on until civil unrest becomes inevitable. To ward of this reaction to poverty and death, the more foolish blacks and their “allies” are being nurtured in hatred and protected while they commit violence against the white deplorable populace. There is no honor in this. Only manipulation, lies and violence.
Take a look at the concern our dear leaders have for the 600,000 dead and million plus wounded Ukrainians so far in this war they ginned up. They have as much concern for us as they do for the Ukrainians. The plan for Ukraine is to keep the war going for as long as possible. At “home” (these people are globalists and have no home) a low-level civil war is just what the oligarchy requires to do away with the shredded remnants of our Constitution and its replacement by a totalitarian police state. By no means will they permit a Trump victory in November. In fact, I believe they will make the election theft as obvious as possible (even if their candidate would win fairly) while still maintaining the barest shred of plausibility for their rabid, bloodthirsty base.
They need civil unrest. They require a big and violent reaction from the populist right. 1/6 didn’t cut it. They need more. A lot more. And they will do whatever they have to do to get it. It’s how they work. It’s the same plan they’ve used for at least 80 years now: create a situation so intolerable the enemy cannot do other than react and then spring the trap.
This is where we are headed unless God decides to intercede. He has done so before and may again. Just don’t expect it to be in any way we can possibly imagine. The good news is the younger generation seems to get what is going on far more clearly than the rest of us. The US has been a sham and a scam their entire lives and they have no nostalgic past to fool them with its lingering sentimentality or promise, however unlikely, of a return.
It’s likely this year will be remembered as one of the most momentous in the history of the world. It’s time to ride the Helter-Skelter. No stepping out of the line and no refunds.
Most excellent, sir! As the son of Southern soldiers I salute and thank you for your honest account of the June holiday. I think that there should be a day to remember the slaves. Just as there should be a day to remember the Confederate soldier. One does not exclude the other.
Holy crap brother this was great. I would have thought Kunstler wrote that.