Commander's Column – Another Reconstruction
Listened to the
Rick and Bubba radio show on Thursday morning, a couple days after the midterm
elections. A woman called in saying that
she was concerned about her daughter and things she says regarding politics and
government that don’t reflect her upbringing. Interestingly, she called as “Anonymous” not
wanting to divulge her name I suppose for fear that her friends and neighbors
may learn of this skeleton in her closet.
The woman said that her millennial daughter feels disenfranchised when
she hears of all the corruption and mismanagement in the federal government and
has espoused a new form of government as the remedy. Rick provided a comprehensive response when
he said that she should inform her daughter that just because there is
corruption and ineptitude in our present government in Washington, that
does/should not lead to the conclusion that a different form of government,
specifically socialism, is the answer.
He went on to explain that the reason for these problems is that
politicians today have strayed from the founders’ intent. We have 30-year career politicians who get
fat and filthy rich as a “public servant” in Washington.
These
politicians become drunk with wealth and power and disconnected from the voice
of their constituents and believe that more and bigger government is the
solution for everything. Socialism and
communism would certainly entail more and bigger government and has always
throughout the history of the world led to a corrupt ruling elite and poverty
for the working class. Rick rightly said
that these Washington bureaucrats have no regard for the founders’ principles
of a limited federal government and states’ rights (and individual
liberty). Bubba has previously on their
talk show gone off on Lincoln’s abuse of power and misplaced effort in
prosecuting the War for the collection of tariffs. But so many of these radio talk show hosts,
particularly Mark Levin just ignore the reality that the War for Southern
Independence was the last gasp, the last fight for the founding principles of
limited federal government and states’ rights and individual liberty. They don’t recognize the problems with a
behemoth omnipotent federal government losing a connection and accountability
with their constituents numbering 300 million.
I was chatting
with a colleague the same day and he texted me something about the Georgia
gubernatorial election. I told him that
Georgians should be ashamed that they narrowly defeated a candidate whose
platform included an expansion of the welfare state with government
regulated/provided healthcare with an expansion of Medicare, more tax
breaks/credits for lower income earners who aren’t paying any taxes already,
day care provisions for single mothers to enable more illegitimate children,
gun ownership restrictions while allowing “economically disadvantaged”
criminals to walk free without any bail, an illegal immigrant sanctuary state
furthering a one-world order, government regulations to combat the hoax of
global-warming-power production and, selectively erasing history by literally
blasting away the Stone Mountain relief sculpture.
I actually
heard a couple of radio talk show hosts including Rush Limbaugh stating the
observation, decrying that all these liberal Yankees are infesting the South,
invading our neighborhoods and townships trying to impose their warped
progressive ideals and agenda on us. They have morally and fiscally bankrupted
the northeast and west coast states from whence they came and now intend to do
the same throughout the Bible Belt. It took unusual events including a witch
hunt during a Supreme Court nomination deliberation and a literal invasion
approaching our southern border to awaken a slim majority to stem the tide and
literally to keep the historic images of those Southern heroes on Stone
Mountain in Georgia. It is unfathomable
that this new Reconstruction has taken hold to destroy our culture and
history. It is unfathomable that our
children have been indoctrinated in schools failing to educate them on our true
history and their civic duty to espouse, embrace, and protect our founding
principles of a limited federal government, states’ rights and sovereignty and,
individual liberty and the responsibility to be a contributing, productive
member of our society and of our communities.
These are the principles and ideals of which the SCV Charge refers which
our Confederate ancestors loved and made them glorious in their defense.
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