Friends, the media is laboring mightily to create the impression that, thanks to poor leadership in red states, there is a massive surge in cases of the coronavirus, and all of us are doomed unless we lock down again -- perhaps indefinitely. The truth is that the "surge" is highly uneven, it is concentrated in states that saw little COVID-19 earlier, it affects mostly the young, and daily death totals are either stable or in decline. There is indeed bad news on the virus, but there is also good news, and as usual we are getting a "liberal" helping of the former and absolutely none of the latter. Could the imperative of blackening the country's mood so as to aid in the defeat of Donald Trump in November be guiding the media here? I don't doubt it for a second, although they seem to enjoy (perversely) wallowing in misery, and inflicting melancholy on others, for its own sake.
Read all about it here:
https://spectator.us/where-deaths-coronavirus-wave/
In other news, the great state of Mississippi is abandoning the Battle Flag of the Confederacy, which, for more than 100 years, has adorned its state flag. The reason is obvious. Mississippi wants to be more inclusive, and less shamefaced. Fair enough, but allow me to make two points. One, symbols mean whatever we choose for them to mean. The Confederate flag DOES NOT mean racism to most Southerners who cherish it, but what they think is, clearly, irrelevant to the Left. Liberals can't abide hurt feelings, when they happen to people they consider worthy of protection, like African-Americans. They quite enjoy hurting the feelings of people they despise, and we all know who that means. First on the list would be white Southerners! Second, Mississippi is kidding itself if it thinks that this action will reduce prejudice against the South and Mississippi in particular. Liberals will continue to despise the state, because it is a hotbed of conservatism, it votes faithfully for the GOP, and it honors God and country over Marx and utopianism. Moreover, the greater the successes of the Left, when it comes to erasing symbols they disdain, the more voracious their appetite for "change" will be. As soon as the Confederate Battle Flag is hauled down for the last time, you better believe that some liberals will start dreaming of the day that the Stars and Stripes -- with all its nasty racist, sexist, imperialist associations -- will meet the same fate. The Left CANNOT be appeased. Not successfully, at any rate. It will not rest until every "offensive" aspect of America is obliterated, and when that happens, trust me, you won't recognize this country any longer. You've been warned.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mississippi-set-remove-confederate-emblem-050056539.html
Right on target Dr. Waddy, no pun intended. The goal of The Left (Marxists/Socialists/Communists) has ALWAYS been to impose the Marxist blueprint and interpretation of history around the globe since 1848. China and Russia are excellent examples of this murderous philosophy which has resulted in the deaths of untold millions.
ReplyDeleteBut what the hell!, say those who promote this ideology. After all, what difference do a few million or so lives matter when the outcome will be an earthly paradise. Human beings are evolving and getting better as every century passes, aren't they?
Who knows what our flag will look like in the future. I would certainly think that some sort of Hammer and Sickle motif will be appropriate as our Constitutional Republic passes into history, and all Americans become Comrades in THE UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA, at least by 2050. Fortunately, I will be dead by then. Regrettably, my kids and grandkids will be forced to live in this Marxist swamp.
Many people say this is impossible, and that the American people will not tolerate this state of affairs. Well, it appears that us "deplorables" have stood by now for at least 60 years while the Left-Wing dominated media, academia, and film industry has brain washed many of us into actually believing that a global (Marxist oriented) village was the best way to go, and in fact the only way.
What was the title of that book whose author slips my mind "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE".
Now, our Christian friends will tell us that all of this is part of the evil things that will happen in the last days of this planet, and not to despair. Maybe they have a point. But hey!, God does not really exist, and religion is after all the "Opiate of The People". How foolish of me to forget this. I suppose nowadays that those who enjoy drugs (legal and illegal) will be able to endure this great transition much better if they are under the influence of whatever is being pushed by some doctor, or the cartels.
So cheer up Comrades, the worst is yet to come!
This just in (or I am late getting the news?), but as part of the process to canonize GEORGE FLOYD as a martyr of "the cause" John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California could be renamed and the statue of Wayne in front of that facility removed. The airport would become Orange County Airport, the original name. WELL AT LEAST IT WON'T BE RENAMED GEORGE FLOYD SKY DROME. So folks, a great actor and film icon will be trashed in favor of a movement's (BLM) demands (with threats of violence) to take down racists like Wayne. All this in "memory" of a man with a criminal record a mile long, an ex-convict, and drug addict. Better start hiding that John Wayne memorabilia before The People's Militia takes it away from you, plus your removal to a future "Gulag" in say North Dakota.
ReplyDeleteHello again folks (sorry I meant Comrades) but I just saw a news article where the Aunt Jemima label is under fire for being racist. This can be fixed by replacing that smiling Black Lady with the image of a scowling Stacy Abrams, with an appropriate quote from her collected works.
ReplyDeleteI posted that comment on the yahoo article and within 3 minutes my computer shut down and I had to restart it. This is not the first time this has happened. And guess what? You got it, the comment had already been deleted by the Stasi monitors at yahoo. I don't know why a suggestion like this would piss the left mob off so much. I think they would like the idea of our food products becoming politically correct and tasty. Why not George Floyd sausages? I forgot that Marxists don't have any sense of humor at all. SHAME ON ME!
I need to STOP being so damned gloomy don't I? After all, when Biden becomes President he will straighten all of this out for us, and the Corona Virus will be cured without a pilgrimage to Lourdes, and the rioters will evaporate into thin air, like none of this ever existed. LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION UNDER COMRADE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN!
ReplyDeleteHa! You are a tad gloomy, Ray. You're right, though, that faith and/or drugs could provide some relief from Marxist tyranny. Life will go on, come what may -- even if for some it will be straight to the afterlife, and double quick!
ReplyDeleteI agree that the idea that the American people will never put up with Marxism is nonsense. Americans are just PEOPLE. We're not supermen. We can be and frequently are manipulated. We've already traveled pretty far down the path of utopianism and big government. That we would continue our journey to the natural endpoint is not so hard to believe.
WHAT! I'm trying to be sarcastic and satirical. HA!
ReplyDeleteHow right you are, Dr. Waddy. The American people are frequently manipulated. Great articles. I am afraid, I have to agree, Ray; Resistance is Futile.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy, you already know my feelings in regards to the Mississippi flag or any flag and any statue etc. Personally, I have had enough. I am afraid, the Republicans are just so ...well... wusses (apology, my husband calls them that---well, worse than that). The big question is, "Is the silent majority" really going to come out and vote?
Ray, love your comments. smiles
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DeleteTell your husband to get his 1920 Bavarian Freikorps uniform out of storage.
I think at this point I would be happy if Obama seized The Presidency as long as he has a blonde conk job on his hair, and Michelle shows up in a hijab. I would be even happier if AOC would become director of the EPA. I would be delirious with joy if Stacy Abrams could be VP, and Al Sharpton as Secretary of Defense or State.
Of course I always have the option of committing ritual Japanese suicide as depicted in the TV series "Shogun".
Dr. Waddy: last mentioned things first: me, a northener and a happy to be Union reenactor: I've had very much experience of Confederate pride. I've saluted their flag in parades and done "present arms" as they passed us and would gladly do so again. Why? I'm willing to explain on this forum because it affords courtesy to a wide range of issues.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, I have as a reenactor some but only suggestive understanding of how it was for all Civil War soldiers. Heat, dust, fatigue, noise, confusion, frustration, horse turds in our way: yeah, we experience all that. Obviously not the rampant deadly disease, the fearsome medical practices, the loneliness and despair,the indescribable shocking horrors of the battlefield, the inability to know the future; no not that by any stretch of the imagination. But we do have some credible sense of knowing what we don't know!
With that as my "authority", I say the average Confederate soldier suffered physical privation which most modern people would not have countenanced beyond a moment. Imagine not eating for days and staying faithful. Now to what? To keeping Black people down? Is it reasonable to think that to be their visceral, essential motivation? No!
Though often commanded by slave holding aristocrats at higher levels which many Rebs never even met, most Confederate troopers couldn't have cared less about anything other than this: "these Yankees are foreigners and I don't want them in my home".Read Northerner's creditable accounts of how strange the South was to them in the book Billy Yank. Surely Southerners found them just as strange.
Northerners after the war returned to parades (eg. the Army of the Potomac through Washington). Southerners returned to defeat, despair, destruction and military rule by the very blue coats they had had risked all to combat. Was their cause condemned? Yes, by the fact that its triumph would have prolonged the inhuman practice of slavery. Did they pay a high price in humiliation (try being a conquered people), the effort of rebuilding their economy, the invasion of their homes by Northern slickos seeking to cheat them? Did they pay a high price for their rebellion? They did and if their cause is to be done close examination in 2020, that fact must be considered, along with everything else, if there is to be an equitable discourse, which is of course anathema to the left.The North invaded the South; that is objective fact. Southerners (no slouches, believe me) said uh, uh!
Anyone knows that the essential (not the Northern polluted) South cherishes the memory of those who gave all to defend their culture. When Confederate memorials are attacked,that vital element of the South is threatened and those Rebs, who I know from long and varied experience to be no wimps,WILL react.
I've heard rumors of leftist attack on Confederate memorials at Gettysburg. Access to that battlefield must be purposefully sought and it is in none of the public ways so very much resented by the left. Actually it was a long time before Confederate memorials were accepted on that field. You lefists have recently adopted the argument that Confederates were traitors. But you have celebrated the presence of your ranks of such as Jane Fonda and William Ayres and incalculable numbers of degenerates such as Al Sharpton. Sorry, you have no moral authority!
Dr. Waddy et al: Try to pull down the Lee or Longstreet statues at Gettysburg and if I know about it I'll be there to defend them with my body and I'll be in Union uniform and so will thousands of others.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: It is certain that all information, statistical, commentarial or in any form, will be presented by the MSM as supportive of its leftist views.
ReplyDeleteOf course then,any depiction or analysis of present developments in the pandemic will be slanted as to leftist advantage only. And that is that: "chaos is nigh and you must allow we who have always known this to take over and deliver you".
The message from the so called "Democrats"(a front name for the radical Left) is: Put us back in power or we will make sure that the Corona Virus scare keeps going, and we will destroy your cities, and your private property until you do. That's the bottom line on all of this b******t that has been going on since 2016. The other message is that we (the so called "Democrats") have academe, the film industry, and the media on our side so you can't beat us no matter how hard you try. If that sounds like a bleak prediction for the future, that's because it is. Expect things to get worse. That may sound extremely grim, but we live in "interesting times".
ReplyDeleteAfter World War 1 the Communists attempted to overthrow governments in numerous European countries in the wake of the 1917 revolution in Russia. That's the same thing that is happening now under different circumstances. Lots of young people, especially in Germany who did not like this got out in the streets and fought with the Communists, many lost their lives or were maimed for life, but they fought and eventually destroyed the threat for a while.
ReplyDeleteI don't see any Americans on the right out in our streets fighting the damn Communists (disguised under various b.s. names). So maybe when the Left takes over this country perhaps we will deserve what we get because we were such damn cowards and weaklings.
Dr. Waddy: Above I should have said, instead of saying"essential. . . South", "very many in the South. . . ." There are many essential Southerners who oppose memorializing the Confederacy and as long as they listen to opposing views and refrain from summary actions such as destroying statues, they should be heard.
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DeleteYou may already know that a lot of these statues honoring Confederate leaders were erected towards the end of the 19th Century when a lot of Southerners were lamenting "The Lost Cause". When the cities who were responsible for maintaining these monuments saw this coming they should have removed them quietly and moved them to warehouse storage and safety. Instead they did not do anything to protect these edifices from wanton destruction by a bunch of fools!
Ray: That is a main concern of mine; are those who would understandably be hostile to celebration of the Confederacy forced to behold these memorials? One could say, if you don't like it don't look at it. But I suppose if I saw a publicly maintained statue of the Clintons or a building named for Al Sharpton, I would bristle.
ReplyDeleteThere should be democratic give and take on these issues, because there are two or more plausible sides to be considered but the fundamentally totalitarian left is having none of that. WHY OF COURSE NOT! Should this be a surprise to any but the most ill informed?
But places like Gettysburg National Military Park are not in the path of all inhabitants of urban areas on their daily ways. Parks like Gettysburg or (horrors, Valley Forge ), (and should you leftists demand more than that, well then to hell with you!)are museums and should the presumptuous left choose to invade and desecrate them and their sacred memorials to the devotion of those Americans on both sides, I hope to be a part of the real America's repulse. We'll see, they may even arrogate this July 4th for their onslaught.
Ray: You are right! The leftist onslaught on all American values is consummate; it embraces all forms of dissembling, disinformation and ,incipiently, the physical force which is always implied and often carried out, by the radical left. The response of the real America must be commmensurate or we WILL be subjected, fully and literally, by this increasingly and always essentially totalitarian, cadre.
Ray: I've read that Harry Truman's grandmother would not admit him into her house wearing his US Army WWI uniform due to the brutal treatment she had experienced from Union troops in Missourii in the Civil War. This experience may have been widespread in the very South and what; are we to ask Southerners to simply dismiss this? Ain't happening , sorry.
ReplyDeleteCan we reasonably ask from Southerners, ostensibly post war citizens protected by the Constitution, that they forget their Civil War experiences? Really? Think again! Their even several decades postwar memorialization of their sacrifice and devotion to repelling the often deservedly hated Yankee invader is honorable. Let it alone and let's move on!
Ray: In saying so I do not suggest any property in your remarks beyond any informed description of reality.
ReplyDeleteLinda, I wouldn't go quite so far as to say that "Resistance is futile". On the issues that matter, we're playing defense, not offense, but at least we're playing! Conservatives still have a voice, even if it's muffled, and that allows us to slow down the progress of the Marxist horde. That may seem like a modest accomplishment, but buying time for people to come to their senses is way better than the alternative! Anyone who values history knows that, as bad as things may seem now, they can and will get much, much worse, unless we do our part and RESIST!
ReplyDeleteAs Ray notes, we all have the option of ritual suicide, should things really spiral out of control!
Well said re: Confederate heritage, Jack. You're right -- to the average "Rebel" soldier, defending hearth and home had to have been more important than slavery. For my money, though, the justice of the cause isn't really the issue. Surely we can find some of the qualities of some of the Confederates admirable, even if we don't approve of every one of them, or everything they did, or every reason why they did it. Are we so blinkered that we can only "honor" those exactly like ourselves??? I hope not.
Ray, you make a good point: the Left probably feels that for the last four years they've endured a "fascist dictator" as President, and yet their grip on most of our key institutions is stronger than ever. They would be justified in concluding from this that they will ultimately WIN the battle for America's soul hands down, and there's precious little we conservatives can do about it. They're a confident bunch. They believe that history is on their side. The scary thing is that they may be right.
Ray is also correct that we who believe in God, country, and the fundamentals of Western Civilization are not, by and large, exerting ourselves to combat the advance of Marxism. We complain about it, sure, and we vote (in modest numbers), but we don't organize or squawk nearly as effectively as our adversaries. If America does succumb, we'll have a lot of regrets, I suspect. I disagree that we need to use force against leftists, however -- actually, I think that would be counterproductive, given how the media would interpret even a good faith effort at self-defense (just ask the couple in St. Louis). We do need to confront the Left, however, democratically, rhetorically, and by way of pressuring advertisers, broadcasters, etc. If WE don't stand up for the truth, no one else will.
Jack: you are right to point to the deep wounds the South nursed for decades after 1865. Honoring the Confederacy was part of the price we paid for reestablishing and rejuvenating the Union, and for reconciling our "brothers" whom we met on the field of battle. It was, in my opinion, a very SMALL price. If the men who saw comrades die at the hands of "Rebels" were willing to pay it, shouldn't we be willing to do the same?
Dr. Waddy et al: We would do well to be in mind of late '30's Britain and the almost suicidal ways so many of them lied to themselves about the existential threat which was so very nigh.
ReplyDeleteMany Americans of good will support the appeasement of the totalitarian left. They do not perceive a threat in its 50 year reflexively iconoclastic crusade against essential American ways.And they do not see in the present insurrection the giant stride the presumptuous and tyrannical step the left is taking. Its 1938,
MY son has told me that he is highly offended by my views expressed over time on this blog; I told him I will not mention him again in future commentaries on this blog and I would affirm this on this site.
we may be close to reaping the whirlwind.
"Its 1938; we may be close to reaping the whirlwind is what I meant for this machine to transcribe.
ReplyDeleteJack, what's the saying? All that's required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing? That's a truism in any and every age.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear that your son is offended by your views. Personally, I'm offended by 90% of the "news", 80% of the "history", and 70% of the "culture", we now endure...but I'm under no illusion that any of these things will change to accommodate me, or that I can will them out of existence. We conservatives are used to the short end of the stick, I suppose. Liberals aren't.
Dr. Waddy: U.S. Grant, in his memoirs, remarked on the high personalqualities of Robert E. Lee and his military gallantry and high principle (eg. although some of Lee's soldiers were fired upon by civilians in Pennsylvania he forbade corporal response to this on the part of his soldiers; he bade them simply disarm the "amateurs", when virtually any other force would have savaged them). But said in the same paragraph the the cause Lee fought for was the worst he could imagine. After the war Grant became close friends with Mosby who had engaged in mutually atrocious unconventional outrages his Union army. Johnston and widely execrated Sherman were very cordial. One of them contracted a life ending cold marching in the other's funeral.Several Confederate Generals marched in U.S. Grant's. monumental funeral cortege in NYC. Union and Confederate veterans of Pickett's very charge itself, shook hands over the very spot where their fellows put each other to death in 1913 and willingly too.
ReplyDeleteDo I expect that those who experienced or have knowledge of Jim Crow to be moved by this? No, that is too much to ask. But in democracy give and take between even severely antipathetic sides is vital. And when one side employs antidemocratic coercion to advance its intent, then its totalitarian essence is, once again, reaffirmed.
Dr. Waddy: Those who reconciled themselves post Civil War had seen the VERY WORST of that cataclysm. I'm talking headless bodies, arms and legs strewn everywhere but perhaps most horridly under chutes from battlefield hospitals, of sounds unheard of by almost all excepting those experienced in battle and its hellish, hellish, hellish aspects! Those who had suffered these scenes yet found willingness to forgive. Again, I do not expect those who may well think themselves the un satisfied products of Jim Crow to sympathize or empathize.
ReplyDeleteBut if they choose to discredit, overpower or arrogate to themselves executive sway - I defy them! There ARE two sides to this conflict and those who seek to bypass the democratic process are condemned by their totalitarian avatars.
A great recap of all the Union and Confederate luminaries who chose reconciliation over revenge, Jack. Thank you. But, unlike you, I don't regard Jim Crow as an excuse for smallmindedness. It's the New South, after all! Time to turn the page.
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