It used to mean “Neo-Conservative” – Now it means something worse!
In Virginia, the government is honoring the memory of an armed rebellion against the United States. They’re celebrating the same armed rebellion in Mississippi.
The supporters of this kind of thinking say that their ancestors rebelled against the United States to defend their freedom and property.
Yeah … their freedom to own slaves and the slaves that were the property.
These people are a new and more abhorrent type of neo-con: Neo-Confederates. This reinvention of history is disgusting.
There is certainly no question that the southern states had deep reservations about being part of the United States right from the beginning. Virginian Patrick Henry, famous for saying, “Give me liberty or give me death!” during the Revolutionary War, never accepted the concept of the United States. He was a Virginian, first, last, and always. If he had his way, the North American continent would be a mass of little empires, like all of those little “-stan’s” south of Russia today. They would all be dominated by Canada which at least held together. But the main reason for all of this was slavery. Thomas Jefferson, another Virginian, went along with abominations like counting slaves as three-fifths of a human being for tax and census purposes (read Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution) because the slave masters in the southern states would not have joined the United States without it. It’s a classic example where making the end justify the means is making us all pay a price two hundred years later.
Just as the Nazis in Germany believed in the superiority of the German race, so the Confederates believed in their right to own other human beings as property. The Germans have totally disowned their past. The southern states need to make that fundamental step toward civilization too.
It seems to me that there is a relationship between all of the Neo-Con thinking and what Virginia and Mississippi are doing and all of the States’ rights stuff that several Western states are doing. Carried to its extreme, these Western states’ rights actions would have each of the Western states being their own little feifdom.
Whoops, again, the above post is from Peggy! I gotta remember to change the name tag when I’m writing posts from Lena’s computer! But it’s good for you – two posts each time I post instead of one – added income for you!
“Fiefdom” THATS the worrd I was trying to remember when I wrote the blog. Why didn’t you tell me that word last night when I was trying to remember it!!!
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I looked for fiefdom in Lena’s spelling dictionary; it’s not there. She doesn’t seem to have a standard dictionary. So I decided to go for feifdom because of the word “feudal”, which is kind of a strange thought process. But I was tired. And I completely forgot about “i before e except after c.” Thanks for reminding me of that!
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It seems to me that there is a relationship between all of the Neo-Con thinking and what Virginia and Mississippi are doing and all of the States’ rights stuff that several Western states are doing. Carried to its extreme, these Western states’ rights actions would have each of the Western states being their own little feifdom.
First, I don’t recall seeing a post from you before, Amy. Welcome to the site!
Second, you’re absolutely right. The western states are equally wrong when they act in an equally stupid way. And Utah certainly does.
It seems to me that there is a relationship between all of the Neo-Con thinking and what Virginia and Mississippi are doing and all of the States’ rights stuff that several Western states are doing. Carried to its extreme, these Western states’ rights actions would have each of the Western states being their own little feifdom.
Hmmmmm … It seems that I’m under a spam attack. The message above clearly isn’t from “Paul’ and there were a few more messages in my spam trap that were fraudulent too. I’m replying to this one just in case someone thinks their little script is clever. It’s no trouble at all to get rid of them. I’ve got a computer too.