“Our enemies are a traditionless, homeless race. From the days of Cromwell to the present day
they have been the disturbers of the peace of the world….After what has
happened the last two years, my only wonder is that we consented to live for so
long a time in association with such miscreants. Were it ever proposed to enter again into a
Union with such a people, I could no more consent to do it than to trust myself
in a den of thieves.” (Jefferson Davis,
Dec 16, 1861) One of the established
reasons for the secession of the Southern states was the recognition that the
Southern and Northern peoples, cultures, and way of life were so disparate that they were incompatible. The Southern economy was based on agriculture
while the North was developing more industry; Northern industry used many raw
goods produced in the South and sought to retain the Southern populace as a
captured market for their finished goods.
Much of the South was still rural and wilderness and required settling
and land development. Religion and
mostly Protestantism was embedded deeply in Southern culture. Southern culture adhered to a patriarchal
model with the family unit working together important to the success of their
farms. The North was the center of most
immigration in the 19th century which created a mottled society diluted from a
sense of shared tradition gained from the founding colonists and nation’s
fathers.
Today the striking cultural differences between the red states and
blue states are as glaring as in the antebellum period. Texit is gaining momentum with Texans not
identifying with the rest of the country’s direction including allowing
unrestricted illegal immigration across the border there. Many on social media share the same feelings
as this poster on Twitter (X), “I find it really hard to even refer to them as
“fellow Americans”. Leftists are furiously doing their best to destroy the
future for our children and grandchildren. I have absolutely NOTHING in common
with these people.” I ran across an
article “The Death of the Nuclear Family” on Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/death-of-typical-american-nuclear-family-economic-crisis-marriage-divorce-2024-3)
which stated, “The 'typical American
family' was always a blip. It's time to rethink it. The nuclear family (is) officially over, the
model is beginning to look more like a fringe lifestyle choice than the bedrock
of American society.” The family
structure on which western civilization largely developed is fringe now. “The demise has sparked no shortage of (often
racist, sexist, and homophobic) political backlash. Radical family-abolition scholars such as
M.E. O'Brien, whose 2023 book "Family Abolition: Capitalism and the
Communizing of Care" argues that the contained family structures
"cannot carry the immense burden of work placed on them." In an early 2020 cover story for The
Atlantic, the conservative columnist David Brooks declared the nuclear family
"a mistake."”
Family-abolitionist?
Further along in this diatribe, “In white, middle-class families, men
earned the wages that supported the family and their wives raised the children
and ran the home. The nuclear family became a microcosm of capitalist
self-sufficiency and the consumerism that came with it.” Problem with this racist take is that it
ignores the established fact that blacks in the 20th century embodied the
nuclear family model and it was during this period that fewer black children
were being raised by welfare mothers and destined for incarceration. “The nuclear family became a microcosm of
capitalist self-sufficiency and the consumerism that came with it.” So, we’re beginning to see where this article
is taking us, an embrace of LGBQT environmentalist socialism. The author states that the nuclear family was
unstable as evidenced by soaring divorce rates when no-fault divorce laws were implemented. So now, was it the family unit that was the
problem or liberal judges and legislators creating instability? Further in this illustrative article, “The
biggest fallout we see today is in the childcare crisis, where the
self-reliance inherent to the nuclear-family model resulted in women bearing
the burden of raising children. Although an overwhelming majority of women now
work outside the home, they continue to shoulder the bulk of unpaid caregiving
labor for children and aging relatives. They also end up doing more household
chores — laundry, cleaning, and cooking are all primarily done by women.” Oh the horror. The burden of child rearing. Of creating and nurturing a home.
“The wealthiest "shareholders" in a capitalist economic
system (can afford housekeepers and childcare), it isn't a particularly
enticing deal for most Americans, Kristen Ghodsee, an ethnographer at the
University of Pennsylvania and the author of "Everyday Utopia: In Praise
of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home,” told me. The nuclear family's guise of
self-sufficiency only barely conceals its toxic codependence with the market
economy.” A guise, not an inherent
foundation. The article goes on to
state that children are a “bad investment” and in an apparent contradiction,
conservatives want to limit “reproductive freedoms” (read that the killing of
babies), when one would assume capitalist conservatives would want more
consumers. The author conjectures
“something better” as “polyamorous families, platonic coparenting, and
"mommunes" becoming the next big thing.” Fellow Americans? These lunatics are doing their best to
destroy the future for our children and grandchildren. I have absolutely
NOTHING in common with these people. As
Sons of Confederate Veterans, we honor our ancestors, their sacrifices in
building their families, their homes, their states, their culture. They fought
the Second war for Independence with a tenacity to defend their homes and
families and preserve their way of life, their Constitutional liberties and
freedoms. As our SCV initiation ceremony
states, “They left us traditions of faith in God, honor, chivalry, and respect
for womanhood; they left us a passionate belief in freedom for the individual.
Our Confederate ancestors bequeathed to us a military tradition of valor,
patriotism, devotion to duty, and a spirit of self-sacrifice. When our nation
no longer admires and pays tribute to these traditions, we will no longer
remain a free nation.” It is Confederate
History and Heritage month – make it a great one and a great year for the
Cause. Deo Vindice.
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