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From: ganth...@gmail.net (George.Anthony)
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Subject: Re: How the American South is punishing 'crimes of thought'
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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 17:29:47 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: George.Anthony - Sat, 23 Apr 2022 17:29 UTC

Technobarbarian <technobarbarian-ztopzpam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> "There we find the reason the US isn’t one country. The states making up
> that region don’t want it to be. They have instead committed themselves
> to a wholly imagined confederacy of the mind and spirit, a fictional
> subnation inside a factual nation in which “real Americans” fight to
> restore God’s country to its rightful “constitutional” origins.
>
> While the rest of America is animated by the principles of democracy and
> union, the south (and its interested and ideological allies spread
> around 50 states) is animated by the goals of division and control. If
> the south can’t control the machinery of the federal government, as it
> has since the beginning, the south declares itself a victim of tyranny.
>
> I think the central tension of our history has been between Americans
> willing to sacrifice for the greater good and Americans eager to kill
> themselves to prevent sacrificing anything to anyone who’s “against
> them.” Democracy isn’t what we think it is. It’s not a tool of a
> sovereign people to effectuate self-rule. It’s a tool of the few to rule
> the many.
>
> The south is the source of national division for another reason. Its
> loyalty to the United States as a union of states is conditional. It
> depends on the south maintaining its grip on the machinery of the
> federal government. If and when challenged, the south reserves the right
> to mutiny. Its social contract includes a “treason option.”
>
> Secession before the Civil War is an obvious example. Less well known
> are negotiations between the Confederate States of America and foreign
> leaders who dithered long enough for the choice to be clear. Less
> understood, too, is the relationship, direct and indirect, between
> Russia and the Republican Party, the American south’s dominant party.
>
> That relationship ranges in degree from passively allowing Russian
> operatives to sabotage a Democratic candidate for president to
> coordinating to spread the Big Lie (thus seeding the ground for a failed
> coup d’etat) to cheering in unison its invasion of democratic Ukraine."
> [end of snip]
>
> https://www.rawstory.com/2657196820/
>
> TB
>

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