Commander's Column – Carpetbaggers Today and
Yesteryear
The
Reconstruction of the 1860s and 1870s demonstrated the intrusion of the federal
government into local and state politics and individual liberties. Confederate veterans were disenfranchised in
many states in the years following the War and former Confederate leaders and
officials were prohibited from voting.
During this same period, these former Confederates were denied the right
to hold public office so the federal government and occupying military
effectively placed carpetbaggers in seats of political power throughout
Southern states and locales. Punishing
taxes were levied and property confiscated.
Vengeful local police placed in positions of authority by these carpetbaggers
inequitably protected citizenry and applied justice. Rights to freely assemble were curtailed and
even to display the Confederate Battle flag was prohibited.
Today a
frighteningly similar Reconstruction has taken hold and threatens our Southern
heritage and culture. Carpetbaggers
personified by former South Carolina Governor Nicki Haley have little
appreciation of the importance and relevance of Southern history or indeed wish
to diminish it as part of a continuing false indoctrination proclaiming the
evil of our ancestors and sacred symbols of our people’s struggle for
independence and sovereignty. Nicki
Haley started the fire, attacking the Confederate Battle Flag as a symbol of
oppression when in fact it is a symbol of resistance to the very government
obfuscation and meddling which was levied against it when it was lowered from
the South Carolina state capitol. Antifa
and the alt-left militant anarchists grasped onto this vision razing artifacts
to Southern and American history, viciously attacking Confederate monuments
across the South and the nation and pandering politicians virtue signaled their
hearty concurrence.
With the
stampede to fill the Democrat field for the 2020 race for President, the
candidates seek to outflank each contender with left leaning
socialist-progessive positions. Most are
calling for the repeal of the Electoral College in the aftermath of the 2016
election when Trump won the Presidency despite losing the popular vote due to
the blue strangleholds in New York and California. The Electoral College was designed by the
founders to prevent populace sectional strangleholds on federal policy and
government and the disenfranchisement of the rural citizenry, so that each
state was on equal footing. Sacagawea Elizabeth Warren, exposed for lying about
a native American heritage nonetheless stands atop her soapbox demanding an
expansion of the Freedmen’s Bureau to provide reparations a century after the
last former slaves passed away from the eternally cruel oppressive American
earth. And just to ensure she puts an
exclamation on her carpetbagging pandering, the Massachusetts liberal went on
the record supporting the redesign of the Mississippi state flag to remove the
Confederate Battle flag imagery. Problem
is she stated her conviction in a town hall in the state of Mississippi which
has repeatedly rejected this notion in multiple referendums. But it plays well in California and
Massachusetts.
Even more
appalling and bewildering, Tennessee Democrat party chairperson Mary Mancini
attempted to garner and rally the progressives in that state by labeling her
constituents racists. To encourage
minority candidates, Mancini proclaimed, "We have a little bit of a
problem in this state, and I'm just going to say it outright, this is a racist
state, a very racist state. Two out of
the three counties in (the Coffee county) area are extraordinarily
racist.”
(https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tennessee-democratic-party-chair-apologizes-for-calling-state-racist) Not just identity politics but espousing a
bigoted derogatory labeling of citizens based on their zip code, branding them
again hopeless deplorable hillbillies as the Democrat party is want to do
apparently. Oh, if you were wondering,
Mary Mancini is a modern-day carpetbagger, a New York liberal having “attended”
Radio and Televisions Communications Management at Syracuse University making
her unquestionably qualified to govern in Tennessee. Fly your Battle Flag and proclaim your Southern
lineage proudly in this Confederate History and Heritage Month and, support
political candidates that proudly proclaim their and support your and value the
preservation of Southern heritage.
