I've posted this elsewhere--we keep hearing about Germany and the precipitous slide into the Nazi state. Obviously it's far from unrelated. But we are not Weimar. We are not land locked. The U.S. occupies an enormous land mass with 50 states that are semi autonomous. We don't have 15 or 16 liberal political parties that are fighting with one another. Our particular form of fascism is Jim Crow. Joyce Vance talks about that, but I hear very few others. And that's really important. This is not some foreign idea being implemented. It's totally American. It's really messy because we fighting with family. The opposition, the "enemy," isn't on some distant shore. Civil war is endemic to the U.S. The Revolutionary War was also a civil war. I remind myself and others that until Lyndon Johnson's Presidency the Democratic Party was shielding racism, tiptoeing around "Dixiecrats." And although the Confederacy is the anchor issue (Confederate statues aren't an issue in New England, but people owned slaves in New England), racism was (and is) everywhere. Thank you for this. I'll get the book.
I suppose it makes sense in retreat they especially have to tell Americans to be respectful since the H man got his ideas on how to enact his racist agenda based on America’s Jim Crow, etc. 😬
In the Mid & Deep South even TODAY, the Civil War is referred to as "The War of Northern Aggression." They have been painting themselves the victims for generations.
I've posted this elsewhere--we keep hearing about Germany and the precipitous slide into the Nazi state. Obviously it's far from unrelated. But we are not Weimar. We are not land locked. The U.S. occupies an enormous land mass with 50 states that are semi autonomous. We don't have 15 or 16 liberal political parties that are fighting with one another. Our particular form of fascism is Jim Crow. Joyce Vance talks about that, but I hear very few others. And that's really important. This is not some foreign idea being implemented. It's totally American. It's really messy because we fighting with family. The opposition, the "enemy," isn't on some distant shore. Civil war is endemic to the U.S. The Revolutionary War was also a civil war. I remind myself and others that until Lyndon Johnson's Presidency the Democratic Party was shielding racism, tiptoeing around "Dixiecrats." And although the Confederacy is the anchor issue (Confederate statues aren't an issue in New England, but people owned slaves in New England), racism was (and is) everywhere. Thank you for this. I'll get the book.
I suppose it makes sense in retreat they especially have to tell Americans to be respectful since the H man got his ideas on how to enact his racist agenda based on America’s Jim Crow, etc. 😬
In the Mid & Deep South even TODAY, the Civil War is referred to as "The War of Northern Aggression." They have been painting themselves the victims for generations.
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