Pat Buchanan - The 2nd Civil War

[aegsm76]

Another good read
link
http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/americas-2nd-civil-war-2/

snippets
What has changed since 1965?
It is not history. There have been no great new discoveries about Lee.
What has changed is America herself. She is not the same country. We have passed through a great social, cultural and moral revolution that has left us irretrievably divided on separate shores.
And the politicians are in panic.

Who hates the statues, Terry? Who’s going to cause the violence? Answer: The Democratic left whom Terry must now appease.

Like ISIS, which smashed the storied ruins of Palmyra, and the al-Qaida rebels who ravaged the fabled Saharan city of Timbuktu, the new barbarism has come to America. This is going to become a blazing issue, not only between but within the parties.

For there are 10 Confederates in Statuary Hall in the Capitol, among them Lee, Georgia’s Alexander Stephens, vice president to Jefferson Davis, and Davis himself. The Black Caucus wants them gone.

On every Civil War battlefield, there are monuments to the Southern fallen. Gettysburg has hundreds of memorials, statues and markers. But if, as the left insists we accept, the Confederates were traitors trying to tear America apart to preserve an evil system, upon what ground do Democrats stand to resist the radical left’s demands?

And once all the Confederates are gone, one must begin with the explorers, and then the slave owners like Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Madison, who seceded from slave-free Britain. White supremacists all.
Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay of Kentucky and John Calhoun must swiftly follow.
Then there are all those segregationists. From 1865 to 1965, virtually all of the great Southern senators were white supremacists.
In the first half of the 20th century, Woodrow Wilson and FDR carried all 11 states of a rigidly segregationist South all six times they ran, and FDR rewarded Dixie by putting a Klansman on the Supreme Court.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Beautiful history. Makes me proud to be an American.

[Jermyn Davidson]

So we can acknowledge how thoroughly permeated our country's history is with vicious racism and white supremacy, but we can't acknowledge that blacks and other minorities are still recovering from the economic and other consequences of such thoroughly permeating and vicious racism.

Let's erect statues to all of the white supremacists of our past! After all, they're great human beings with, at the root of all their actions, goodwill for all men!

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

So we can acknowledge how thoroughly permeated our country's history is with vicious racism and white supremacy, but we can't acknowledge that blacks and other minorities are still recovering from the economic and other consequences of such thoroughly permeating and vicious racism.

Let's erect statues to all of the white supremacists of our past! After all, they're great human beings with, at the root of all their actions, goodwill for all men!

Jermyn, if your comments are indicative of most Americans of African descent, then how can we remain united? If you hate who I love, then we have no hope.

I find it interesting that in Confederate South Carolina, the cradle of secession, that the rebel flag waivers elected a black man to the Senate and an Indian woman as Governor. And by the way, both of them only garnered TEN PERCENT of the black vote.

[aegsm76]

Again, you are avoiding the issue by focusing on those who you believe were the most egregious.
Our Civil War ended in a way that no other Civil War ever ended.
With the leaders of the opposing force, not being executed, but going home.
(Howbeit some after a few months in prison).
Now, forces on the left want to "dig them up" and execute them.
As well as throwing in anyone who opposed their enlightened political and personal views.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

So we can acknowledge how thoroughly permeated our country's history is with vicious racism and white supremacy, but we can't acknowledge that blacks and other minorities are still recovering from the economic and other consequences of such thoroughly permeating and vicious racism.

Let's erect statues to all of the white supremacists of our past! After all, they're great human beings with, at the root of all their actions, goodwill for all men!

In other words, you think we should tear down the statues of ALL the founding fathers.

By the way, if it wasn't for those evil racists, where would YOU be today? West Africa, worshipping devils, with no idea how to read or write? Or perhaps carted off to a slave trader's platform in Riyadh or Cairo?

This whole "America is permeated with evil" shtick makes me want to ask you, "When are you moving?"