I am not easily baffled, but this is a triple baffle: I. The Confederate Flag and monuments. I have never seen such loyalty to those who lost a war. As said before, I can understand some of why the South rebelled: a neo-mercantilist North not allowing them to sell on the open market. But, they also advocated for an Old World Social/Economic, class based, order, as well. Where, as Jefferson put it, the “Well born, well educated, and rich” should run their state and nation. A state where not only were Blacks excluded, but inferior Whites, as well. Recall, many southern states did not require mandatory education until the 1960’s, and their laws required one to pass a literacy test to vote, and with their Poll Tax, had to afford to vote. This included White southerners too, those so called, by them, white trash, and hick farmers.
#2: These same folks claim to be Conservatives, but also claim to be Nationalists. Ok, I accept being confused by so many different versions claiming to be Conservative, but most Conservatives that I know reject “Big Government” and, that is “intrusive into our lives.” The term Nationalists, for all those for whom that sounds right and good: Nationalism, as a late 19th and 20th Century term; is an ideology that means a form of government that nationalizes the primary industries, and dictates all of what one can and cannot do, believe, and say. For those going one step further into the realm of Nazism; remember Nazi stands for the National Socialist Party, where the government runs all things, controls all business, all media, one party elections, and provides for all the necessities, including social needs, for those obedient and loyal. The German Nazi Party even designed the Volkswagen (peoples car) so people can get around in an approved type of car for them. It is kind of a next generation, absolute, civilian, monarchy. A brief digression: the Welfare State that so many relate, wrongly, to Socialism, came about as the obligation of the monarch, as parent, to take care of their people, as their inferior children, not capable of doing so for themselves. (I wish that instead of changing the meaning of a word to suit one’s self-serving self-interests that they just create a new term.) Thus, it is the Biggest and most intrusive form of government into our lives. I base this on research I did when I learned that I had a relative back in Germany, Dr. Robert Ley, who was head of National Organizations (under Hitler): organizations approved and allowed the people to be involved in, by the government. Nationalism for them was forced patriotism, with total loyalty and obedience to the state. (Be careful what you wish for).
3rd baffle: not being naïve I know that the use of these is to represent their belief in White Supremacy. My baffle here is: if all whites are Superior, why aren’t all Whites rich, accomplished, and successful; why are they not able to compete with non-White, and win? And, if Southern Whites were superior, how did they lose the Civil War? And, again in the South then, and in the Old World, not all Whites were created equal. Pre-destination (religious term) declared that, even within an ethnic/racial population there were the Superior Whites and the inferior Whites. God and Nature made the Superior people rich, were born into prestigious families, and highly successful, so as to control the inferior poor, from working families, and whose sole purposes were to work, fight as soldiers, not officers and breed more worker soldiers to serve their lords and masters. So why would anyone claim these if not already Superior in status. Or, is that they cannot compete because they believed all the wrong messages and people, and have to find someone to blame for their status? Sorry, I just had to say something by this elaborate con job of myth-information.
Brian Hoose, brhoosecomcast.net
