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A topic that comes up regularly is why the Southern states produced so many terrible Republican politicians. Many of the most perfidious elected officials in Washington come from states that are solidly Republican. The most obvious is South Carolina, which seems to have a political class as corrupt as Massachusetts. Lindsey Graham might be the slimiest politician in America. Now Thom Tillis of North Carolina is making a run at Graham’s crown.
The voters in the South are some of the most conservative in the country, but they elect most of the unreliable pols in the GOP. If elections worked as people insist, a guy like Graham would not exist. Instead, the state’s senators would reflect the majority of the state’s voters, which are very conservative. The South Carolina delegation would be the fire-eaters of the Republican Party. Alabama and Mississippi would be working hard to set the edge in Republican edginess.
Last week, Thom Tillis finked on the President by pulling his support for Ed Martin, Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. Maybe Tillis took a bribe, which happens so often in Washington now that it is the new normal. More likely, he simply agrees with his friends in the Democratic Party. He agreed to be the Republican who finked on the base this time, taking one for the team so to speak. Next time, another Southern Senator will suddenly decide his principles require him to be a fink.
In states dominated by the left-wing crazies, the pols tend to be even more fanatical than the typical voter in the state. Oregon politicians, for example, are reliable spear catchers for the far-left. One of their Representatives is now living in El Salvador to protest Trump’s deportation of MS-13 gang members. Ocasio-Cortez is now calling for violence against federal immigration officials. In progressive states, the elected officials are always to the left of their voters.
In so-called conservative states and districts, the opposite is true. The defining feature of Republican pols from the most conservative states is their willingness to bend their knee to the people they claim to oppose. They live in fear of being called one of the scary words the crazies use to control their conservative pets. Thom Tillis would urinate himself in public if he were ever called a mean word, so he makes sure to be ahead of all of these things, which means surrendering on every issue.
The main reason for this is the local elites in the South live in shame of their heritage and of the white people they represent. Like booshie people everywhere, they want nothing more than to be invited to the cool kid’s table. Since Gettysburg, the cool kid’s table has been where the progressives sit. The winners get to define what is and what is not cool and that remains true to this day. The United States is a Yankee imperium, and the South is a conquered land.
It is a good example of how control of the centers of cultural production can alter the behavior of the people. The managerial elite is not going to gaslight people into thinking a man in a dress is normal or trick people into embracing black sociopathy, but they can set the cultural tone for the elites. If you want to be popular in the centers of power, Washington, New York, Los Angeles, or Silcom Valley, you better conform to the cultural norms of the trend setters who control those power centers.
It is why Patrick Buchanan once quipped that when Southerners send one of their own to Washington, he quickly goes native. He goes from being his district’s representative to Washington to being Washington’s representative to his district. If you look around at the biggest finks of the Republican Party, they fit that role perfectly. Lindsey Graham hates the people he represents. They are not his people. It is his burden that he was born in such a backward state as South Carolina.
The question is why the voters tolerate it. People like to blame the voters, but when your choice is Graham and a guy with a bone in his nose, you cannot be blamed for voting for Graham. That is the other side of this master – slave relationship. For his loyal service to his friends in Washington, they make sure he never has a serious primary challenger or a serious general election opponent. The loyal colonial official, like Graham, gets the protection of his lord.
It is not just the machinations of the parties that account for this. There are enough white people in the South who are ashamed of themselves to make forming a majority of the proud impossible. The same cultural pressures that make a Thom Tillis ashamed his people work on the locals. Fashionable people in the provinces always ape the ways of those in the big city. Many booshie South Carolinians are as revolted by Southern culture as the typical Manhattanite.
William Faulkner described a South undergoing a transition, where the old elite with roots in the antebellum South, the Compsons, was giving way to a new class, the rapacious, vermin-like Snopes clan. The old elite had a natural superiority about them, but they were ill-suited for the new South. The new elite, on the other hand, was without virtue, so perfectly suited for the new age. They were willing to say anything and sell anything to get an advantage.
Faulkner’s description of the Snopes clan is exactly what you would expect from the ruling elite of a conquered people. They exist not as a genuine elite but as way to prevent the formulation of a genuine elite. The conqueror always wants the conquered to remain conquered and the most efficient way to do that is to make sure their leaders are loyal to the conquerors. Just as the house slaves keep the field slaves from revolting, Southern elites keep the South pacified.
In a democracy, this process is subtle and natural. No one in Washington worries about a revolt against the Yankee imperium. They only have to make sure that the politicians in the provinces are their sort of people. The same sorts of selection pressures that exist in the high school cafeteria exist in official Washington. The social pressures are all one way and as a result, the compliant representing Southern states have long careers, while the difficult drop out of politics.
It is why remedying this at the ballot box is impossible. Efforts to depose Lindsey Graham always fail, because he is the product of a system that is designed to not just defend his kind but produce them from the raw material of popular resistance that might get lucky and beat him in a primary. A populist who beats Graham will go to Washington, and before long he will go native. He will sound just like the other house slaves who serve their masters in the Yankee imperium.
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Never more true. It is mostly the same everywhere except in a very few cases. Our congress critters in Idaho hold all of the elite views. They are all warmongers and if Israel nuked every Arab capitol they would say it was the fault of those Arabs and God’s will. Their narrative on Ukraine is the old “Russian aggression” tripe that almost everyone abandoned in the last three years.
They all abhor illegal immigration but never offer any solution to curb said immigration. It is all tiresome and the reason I no longer bother to vote.
It seems like Idahoans will support the politician who repeats the most Reagan cliches about freedom and cutting government waste. Like the Southerners, Idahoans never follow up on what their politicians actually do and punish them for transgressions.
You mentioned the best example of illegal immigration. Idaho politicians campaign against it but then when in office protect big agriculture by resisting the adoption of E-Verify.
The only punishment that may be effective will come from another box than the ballot…
All so true. They wax poetic about Reagan and site him often in their rhetoric. St. Reagan.
The same process was at work in the Raj. “Postcolonialists” are always pretending to be baffled as to how 100K Whites, max, managed to rule the entire Subcontinent (or maybe they’re not pretending; Post-Colonial Studies people are profoundly stupid; but that’s a question for another day).The point is, it worked the same way. The problem, for Our Thing, is that the Gandhi-type solution won’t work in AINO. George Orwell pointed it out in the 1930s — there’s no Nazi or Soviet Gandhi, because while even a large segment of the British ruling class was horrified by e.g. Amritsar, the Nazi… Read more »
300K whites ruling over 300m Indians, mostly by keeping the caste system in place and working through local rulers (the “brown sahibs”) The Gandhi solution was bollocks and never worked. It was a combination of factors that pushed the Brits out of India — the humiliating defeat in Southeast Asia at the hands of the Japanese, bankruptcy of the empire by the end of WW2, arm-twisting by Roosevelt and then Truman who wanted to dismantle the British empire, and in any case dominion status (which is all Gandhi was asking for, and which Canada and Australia had) had been promised… Read more »
Non-violent protest only works when the motives of the protesters are secretly endorsed by the Power Structure. See America and the so-called “civil rights movement.”
Spot on. Across the West, unapproved opinion results in arrests and punishments reminiscent of the old Soviet Union.
It must be noted, the Canadian trucker protest worked. We were headed into full bore covid tyranny when it happened, but that was when the regime backed down. The organizers are still paying for it. Perhaps this is only the exception that proves the rule, I dunno, cause I’m not saying you are wrong.
It “worked”, because the elites moved on to the ukraine project.
It’s possible that it demonstrated how spineless our “elites” really are
No doubt the Canadian trucker protest, which we in the States were constantly told failed even though it was quite the opposite, along with a few uppity Southern governors, brought about the beginning of the end of the Covid Tyranny. I actually think there were even more ominous plans to build off of it and they were outright cancelled. Someone earlier suggested Project Ukraine was pushed to the fore and that was the reason it was ended, but I think that was only a part. The Covid Tyranny showed there remains a hard limit to how far the Regime can… Read more »
Bose’s army convinced the British they could no longer depend on Indian police and troops to maintain their rule in India.
Lindsey Graham might be the slimiest politician in America.
J.B. Pritzker waddles over and threatens to sit on Z man and crush him for that comment.
As a proud Confederate American, born in Atlanta which was burned by Lincoln’s terrorist army, I hate the hell out of the politicians we send to Washington. The upcoming Georgia Senate race is an example. Brian Kemp, one of “them”, has taken his name out of contention. One Left is Raffensperger, who as Secretary of State was a leader in the 2020 election scam. How he was re-elected is a mystery to me. Not really. MTG has withdrawn her name. It was thought that she is too much of a bomb thrower to be elected statewide. That’s probably true. Atlanta… Read more »
Atlanta is still a lost cause.
Strangely, I think the same applies to many Democrat states. Up here in CT, the Dems have a razor-thin majority in the State House and Senate. There’s no way we would be saddled with ultra-left douches like Murphy and (DaNang Dick) Blumenthal if there weren’t direct election of Senators. The same is likely true in Michigan and New Hampshire, just to pick a few, where they have Senators way to the left of the state-wide political center of gravity. Zman has described the folly of direct election of Senators on many occasions and it was perhaps the greatest mistake of… Read more »
Oh, yeah. Just as there is a way overblown stereotype of the South as based, the Northeast is incorrectly viewed as wildly leftist. That’s true in a few spots but very few.
The unfortunate aspect to all this is there is no real solution for this crap, other than a possible dictator from our side of the great divide. And there don’t appear to be any in waiting that I can see.
Dunno. When you hand a man his first real paycheck and he sees how much gets taken out, usually you can see the light come on in his eyes. Tax and spend mentality only really survives when one is getting free shit. Stop spending a penny of tax money on the colleges, and most of the college town problem @Ostei talks about disappears.
The RINO that stabs you in the back is a thousand times worse than the woke D that punches you in the face. This human detritus exists because we allow it. Yes, the Forces of Darkness control the election process and can select whomever they choose, but the peons still possess the ability to get their fat ass off the couch and implement a remedy. Will that ever occur? Only when things get bad enough. Then its full berserk, and that cure can’t happen soon enough.
TomA votes for berserk. Sun rises in east.
Republicans are traitors twice over. First, they betray their voters, and second, in so doing, they betray their race. I’m not one to condemn people to hell, but the Republicans sorely tempt me to do so.
How truly “conservative” is the South any more, though? Just got back from spending some time in North Carolina (with its Jewish Democrat governor) and it was more full of queers and hippies and nonwhites than my frozen little 100% white corner of Yankeedom. Now, granted, I was near Chapel Hill, which is not exactly Lumberton. Lumberton probably votes more conservative, but it is also a poor shithole where you don’t exactly want to move to. I would argue that the same pattern is repeating itself in Tennessee, Atlanta, parts of Arizona, Virginia, etc. The people with money and education… Read more »
I’ve noted a big outmigration to North Carolina from “blue” states (specifically Illinois, as we have family who ditched Silly-nois and moved there). A big part of that is tech jobs around places like Charlotte and Raleigh Durham. How many of those people moving there are squishy headed liberals priced out of Ill-annoy and moving to less expensive digs? Which means of course they’ll turn NC Purple, then Blue if demographic changes continue. Because of course we’ll need this, and that, and the other thing and taxes will rise and liberals will take over local government. One worries the “Solid… Read more »
The pleasant part of Chapel Hill is that it’s so near to North Carolina. It is an aberration, including in demographics. That said, it absolutely is an issue with people moving to the South and changing it. However, it’s still the South enough that it contains a fair amount of immunity. South Florida houses a lot northeast transplants. However, there are enough people from especially the governing elite that stumble enough Florida men/women to not want to live there. California Disney creatives were quite clear that Florida was a no go, despite plenty of Yankees flooding in. Also Yankees are… Read more »
Jesse Helms once said a wall should be built around Chapel Hill to quarantine all the crazies. He forgot to mention that after the wall was built, the shelling should have begun…
Southeast Florida and the rest of Florida are, both culturally and politically, two different states. You could also say that there are, culturally, 3 states of Florida. 2 or 3, either is true. A couple of things have transpired to turn Florida the reddest it has probably ever been. One, eliminating the voter fraud. Two, the recent transplants have turned out to be mostly rightward leaning, often fleeing bluer areas. To clarify on the 3 states of Florida. One, the southeast area, Miami, Fort Laud, West Palm. Two, everything west and north of there up to about The Villages. Three,… Read more »
As you well know, college towns and megaslopolises, regardless of the state they’re in, are bastions of Leftism. North Carolina, alas, has Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Wilmington, Asheville and Winston-Salem. It’s a minor miracle that it hasn’t yet morphed completely into a southern Massachusetts.
Lots of Jews moved to North Carolina over the past 20 years. Lots of ‘yankee’ liberals moving to Tennessee and South Carolina. They suddenly discovered that White southerners occupy some beautiful real estate and built livable and functional places. So now they are taking over. There’s an overabudance of Chicagoans and Californians in my patch of the Ozarks. But rich or poor, the local repukes anywhere have accepted the left’s morality on race since the 1960s. John Cornyn of Texas should have been lynched years ago. The GOP in Ohio is pushing ramaswarthy as governor. AINO has been colonized from… Read more »
White Ohioans will be responsible for Rama-smarmy.
Here in the midwest we’re getting absolutely inundated with blue freaks from new york, its gone into overdrive since covid. Between them & blackrock the only refuge going forward will be extremely rural areas where there is no access to starbucks or an RTA bus line. With the demographics being what they are they won’t be able to build any new infrastructure to densely black & blue those areas. An old timer I know who still works part time for our state run electricity company told me the new diversity hires are illiterate & don’t understand how to use a… Read more »
I am a native of South Carolina whose lines go back to the Antebellum period and can verify what you say. I know my history, that from the archival data as well as family stories, and there is only so much a people will take. SC threw off Reconstruction rule only when the citizens held alternative elections, 1876. A newsman was there and left a book. It’s an amazing read. Until a strong leader arose, people felt hopeless. Graham, Scott are not of that caliber. Most of us remember Lindsey when he was a boy and he is a disappointment… Read more »
Yes. Power is followed and kneeled to by the status seeker. The striver is our worst enemy. The striver is up on the hill pretending to be surveying the battlefield on our behalf while cutting off the supply lines, and doing advance scouting for the opposing army. It won’t be until things get so bad that the striver can be supplanted by those with some virile energy and principle. These strivers are everywhere; political office, corner offices, cubicles … … It is the freeze frame, lady-in-the-red-dress simulation scene in The Matrix. There are guys in Nashville leading shitlib protests against… Read more »
‘The best we can do is not be that guy and to start with a small group of cultured and ascendent men and find small openings to insert ourselves’
And to remember: always keep the Chipper gassed up and never rely on electrics. They don’t travel well.
As Alzaebo noted the other day, it’s a lot simpler to sell one’s acreage for big bucks to newcomers than to fight the encroaching suburbanization, developers, and big finance. And many of the locals’ children want the money rather than the land, because they’ve been nurtured in the same government schools and on the same media diet as the kids in LA. It was White people who sold the land bought by the Han.
It was White people who sold the land bought by the Han.
The largest problem we face is a substantial slice of our people.
My present state has a weaselly-eyed Jew and a corrupt black “preacher” in the Senate, thanks to the purplish and growing Atlanta suburbs contaminated with unwelcome Yankee transplants and annoying foreigners who are busy turning our state into a version of the dystopian hell they left. Like locusts, they’ll flee again, maybe to Alabama or Mississippi, to start the process all over again when Georgia is a failed state like California or New York. I like our host’s idea that you vote in your state of birth and can’t vote in your new state for 10 years or perhaps longer.… Read more »
The tension between Republican-dominated legislatures and Democrat-dominated cities is very pronounced in the region, perhaps more so than anywhere else. Some of those legislatures are even exercising raw power (Tennessee, Arkansas), which makes them quite different from what we expect from the corrupt, cowardly Republicans.
Husband and I made a point NOT to register to vote or check out any local political organizations when we moved. Meanwhile, the Illinois immigrants (mostly retirees) about an hour away have tried pushing a 55 million dollar bond for a high school (which none of their kids would attend) in an economically poor region with 1600 high school students. How long the local voters will be able to outnumber and prevail over the invaders is questionable.
Repeal the 17th!
Maybe it would help?
Having moved to the South as a Catholic Yankee, there’s another reason for that fink, too. Modern Southern Protestantism and therefore it’s culture is held together by the thinnest of social glue. What keeps groups together is in essence a bunch of polite lies that everyone believes or pretends to. Agreeing that the Bible is God’s Word that we all get to interpret for ourselves* and we’re the best is no agreement at all. It’s hardly surprising that Southern elites go to Washington and absorb every bit of the culture. The social pressure to conform at any expense, because there… Read more »
good point. The South is filled with people who hate their history and culture – whom would we expect such a people would produce?
I don’t think you’ll find many black Masses in the South.
In fact, I’m not sure if black Catholics even exist.
Yes, they do.
After I retired from the Telephone Company, I contracted for a while in Kansas City. There was a Black woman across the aisle from me, and me being from the South, we had many conversations. Turned out that she was Catholic and said there were many Black Catholics. Maybe it was a mid-western thing, but I thought that Blacks were Baptist or AME, or an ad hoc assemblage formed around some charismatic con man. Well, Whites do that too.
In the 2000s it was often referred to as the cocktail party circuit. Ed Martin was spit on by some random shitlib, which was a show that he was singled out by the DC crowd. It doesn’t matter what he was going to do or not do (and I highly doubt he would do anything, see how Kash Patel has turned into the consumnate FBI man within weeks of confirmation), he was the Enemy and Tillis had to act that way if he wanted to stay welcome in the DC social circuit. I really think it is that simple. The… Read more »
“If you want to be popular in the centers of power, Washington, New York, Los Angeles, or Silicon Valley, you better conform to the cultural norms of the trend setters who control those power centers.”
Graham might be a loyal house nogger but is he really popular in these cultural centres? I doubt it. He could never pass for one of them — his accent, his cultural background, his lack of polish, his general dimwittedness.
Graham is a fixture in the DC dinner circuit.
Graham participates, if not openly, in the one and only activity that can redeem a white southern male in their eyes
Ah yes, of course. Silly me.
You suggesting he’s a fellatin’ flunky?
Word on the street is Lady G can suck a bowling ball through a garden hose.
Much has been said and written, most of it silly and quite irrelevant, about Obama’s African genes, as if they make him “black,” when of course they don’t. His speech, manners, polish, intelligence, and so on — these are the things that count, not his crude demographic profile, which is no more than a curiosity. As Joe Biden once observed (so explosively!), he is “clean.” Yes, he may be literally “African-American,” as I suppose a man born in Cairo, Tunis, or Capetown would be, but why make a big deal of that?Has everyone forgotten the most basic things? In this… Read more »
Did this age well? Crude demographic profile? Didn’t it turn out that Obama was really into being black?
I don’t think so. His wife seems much more, as the media says, “authentically and unapologetically Black” (capitalization included on purpose) than he does.
Well, she has the helluva lot more negro genetic material than BO.
Doesn’t particularly matter if he was ‘into’ it or not. Fifty percent sub-Saharan genes are 50% of one’s nature, like it or not.
Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville seems like he may be the exception to the rule. I don’t follow official, formal politics too closely, mind you, but I have heard rumblings that he has been somewhat uppity and unruly.
It is absolutely shocking. He is the last person you would peg for that slot.
For half a century after the CRA, the primary activity of southerners, in their relations with people from the rest of the country, was demonstrating that they weren’t their evil raycist forebearers. The dumber and more corrupt ones, who for some reason care about currying favor with demented, perverted baizuo, are still at it, and the smarter ones are beginning (alas only beginning) to see the fat lot of good it did them. The lesson to be learned is never apologize for who you are and where you come from. As it earns you no favor, only scorn. But even… Read more »
Which we are only now at the cusp of shaking off.
It took a long time to get there, maybe too long. Have you noticed that there is nowhere near the hesitation of the past to voice openly disgust with Yankees? I think that was required before the shaking off could start.
Plenty of couch-sitting Whites who will happily continue to vote a straight ‘r’ ticket and bask in their virtue.
IIRC, lawfare was used against the one primary challenger who actually threatened Graham (Ravenel? I think). He was convicted and the lesson was learned.
It’s a Uniparty. Donald Trump is towards the right side of the Uniparty. Not as much a maverick or outsider as pretended. Donald’s rubbed shoulders with powerful people his entire life. They are his people, not you.
Make no mistake, it’s a members-only Club. All of ’em in a big snaky pile, having Congress with Goddess Columbia.
Rudy Giuliani, Gen. Flynn and other Trump allies aren’t in the club. Trump left them for the wolves. If JB Putzker falls afoul of the laws, Trump will bend over backwards to help the Cetacean-in-Chief. (C)hyatt))) people are in the club.
Usually, when you talk about “conquerers” you have people who have grabbed power by force in mind. A variation, conquest by invitation, is underway in Britain. The conquerers – mostly second generation Asian immigrants who were invited as settlers – have their elite feet under the top table in many high offices of state. In the Home Office, they can be depended on to scupper any proposal that threatens to close the open border through which hundreds of Afro and Asian illegal immigrants are arriving every day.
I am a native Southerner and from the stock that settled the region and can confirm. A bit of a quibble is that this is a somewhat recent trend among politicians. Not so long ago they would stand firm on segregation and other issues like school prayer. Yes, they would go along to get along on other issues, particularly pork barrel spending, which they loved, but they did not dare go against the grain of the region’s core values. There is an odd dynamic with this, too. There is a sharp split emerging among Southern states where some produce only… Read more »
The South was brought into the wider American economic zone starting in the 1990s. It probably coincided with Clinton’s arrival in the White House. The fact that BoA formed in 1998 in Charlotte after a Charlotte bank merged with a San Francisco bank is telling. If this happened in 1978 I can’t help but think they would have chosen SF instead. The massive migration, in the past decade, to Southern cities from Northern ones like NYC and Chicago includes both well-to-do Whites and working class blacks attracted to the lower COL and taxes, but that was not on the table… Read more »
I included school prayer along with segregation for that very reason. The migration is exacerbating the rural/urban dynamic, of course. There is truth that most Southern states are becoming “redder” because of the migration into the suburbs, but that highlights the distinction between Republican and conservative/right-of-center. The Northeastern Republicans relocating to a Charleston suburb probably are less conservative than the handful of native white Democrats still there. Additionally, Southern natives still remain overwhelmingly dominant and generally hate Yankees and their culture although that is not voiced openly. That disgust, which is returning quickly among the young, is more social than… Read more »
I can’t speak to the cultural south as I am not from there, but I found Greer’s arguments compelling. I don’t think younger southerners see themselves as distinct from the wider USA in a way previous generations did, and the cultural/political divide is similar everywhere. I think that people across the country are becoming disgusted with the literal and figurative filth the feds and the left has imposed upon us, and that was reflected in the county-by-county election results last year. Nashville has quickly become one of the country’s big “party cities” alongside Miami, Las Vegas, and New York. They… Read more »
Unless it has changed recently, Nashville is in one of the handful of Tennessee counties that has been losing population. I do agree that was not seen as a reason to resist becoming part of the Pos. Greer glossed over the deep dysfunction in the place, though. And, yes, nationwide the young are revolting against the Pos but it really is pronounced among younger Southerners.
Northeast and westcoast repukes are definitely to the left of native southern White democrats. That the Californians moving to/transforming Idaho and Texas and the New Yorkers in the Carolinas and Alabama are ‘conservatives’ fleeing is a constant refrain in comments everywhere, and just as untrue as it is common.
Leftist interests financially support the least conservative candidates in Southern GOP elections. It is money well-spent.
The best example is in faraway Alaska. Murkowski is the best leftist money can buy.
You have to be a boomer like me to remember when the South was represented by Republicans like Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond. Helms was succeeded in 2003 by Libby Dole, Bob’s wife, who at least was from the state.The same year Lady G succeeded Thurmond. Wikipedia: “In 1942, at age 39, after the U.S. formally entered World War II, Judge Thurmond resigned from the bench to serve in the U.S. Army, rising to lieutenant colonel. In the Battle of Normandy, he landed in a glider attached to the 82nd Airborne Division.” It’s impossible to think of a greater drop… Read more »
Strom Thurmond fathered mulattoes.
Born and raised in central IL farm country, have now lived in SC > 40 yrs and I still don’t understand how Graham keeps getting elected. Perhaps the divide between the more conservative upstate SC (where I am) and the moderate midlands / lefty low country. Or, mama’s taught their children to just be nice and that little Lindsey is just so nice so’s we should all vote fer him.
What worries me is now that Tillis has out slimed Graham, he’s going to have to one up Tillis and do something even more extraordinarily slimy.
This isn’t just an issue with the South. You see this elsewhere in pockets where Republicans have an overwhelming majority. Essentially it is this: Areas of Democrat one party rule: voters consistently elect the most leftists of candidates Areas of Republican one party rule: voters often elect moderate or even leftwing candidates The reason for this is actually quite simple: conservatives are honest and leftists are not. In places like California where Republicans have no hope of winning, conservatives still run as Republicans (and then lose.) While in overwhelmingly Republican places like the Deep South, Texas, or Utah, leftists outright… Read more »
A big part of the problem is also the combo of the exorbitant cost of running for a federal office (or even mayor) and the controlled media. Trump was able to win in 2016 in no small part to his being a celebrity, use of Twitter, experience playing the media and ability to self fund enough to get the ball rolling. That is a rare combo. The system guarantees 99 percent who win won’t have that combo. Then you have the bribes of groups like AIPAC to directly pay off the grifters who get elected combined with all the other… Read more »
If the Confederacy had managed to win the Civil War, we would be living in a remarkably different world. It’s hard to imagine a fractured America taking it’s rightful place on the world stage. Likely, without the U.S. to intervene, Germany wins the Twentieth Century, and world power stays in Europe rather than migrating to North America as in our timeline. With slavery a going affair in the South in the 21st Century, who knows, there might even be a call to permit slaves in the North.
— Greg (my blog: http://www.dark.sport.blog)
Greg-AI again. Note the grab of keywords and reply having nothing to do with Z-man’s commentary.