I was in line for coffee this afternoon and overheard someone, in all seriousness, declare that the Civil War was caused by taxation without representation. And that any Moran would know it wasn’t about slavery. Nope. Not even a little. You know that head twist your dog makes when you say something to it that is completely incomprehensible and weird and sounds totally bizarre? That’s what I did. I started talking to my friend something about representation in the House, Senate, and WH in the years leading up to the Cvil War, the declarations of secession for several of the states, all of which suggested that probably that wasn’t really the issue. Blah, blah, blah, the various documents that survive from the time as each of the Confederate states seceded make it VERY clear why they were doing so, and first and foremost among the reasons was the survival of the “peculiar institution”. Right? Like why is this even a question? Unless…You guys! Do you think maybe people aren’t really reading those things and haven’t really bothered to find out much about the actual history instead of the fictionalized Gone With the Wind crap? That couldn’t be it, could it?

Not hate, just subjugation. Yup. The hate only started when they had to be called ‘people.’

Somebody pass the heroin, hillbilly or otherwise.

Wait, do they actually fear that Dylann Storm Roof’s admitted racist attack IS going to spark a Race War? Are they afraid that if they do admit it was racism, that all the black people really will be fixing to chop up the Wingnut Media and One Percentiles into little itsy pieces? It is almost like they are admitting their own complicity, that NOT tamping down the racist angle at this point is a worse gamble than just ignoring the reality and suffering the consequences.

A large swath of the US population honestyly can no longer distinguish normal from nuts and evil from good anymore. They are called wingnuts, libertarians, and religious conservatives.

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Fuck the “Confederacy”. Fuck ’em all to hell. We should have cut them loose when they wanted out. But no, we had to kill half a million people to keep them in our very special Union. Fighting for the right to enslave an entire race of people  – yeah, those are states we want to keep. Since then, those states that seem more and more like a place in Lovecraft’s works, a backwards, degenerate race of people given over to cruelty and madness, worshiping their deformed gods amid a pile of bones, skin and ichor, working to bring about the end of the humanity with the return of their evil masters.

You have proven yourselves to be treasonous, UnAmerican monsters over and over. You whined and got your special three-fifths shamefully written into the constitution. When you didn’t get their way and wouldn’t go along with democracy, you tried to secede. Despite the clear separation of church and state, you continue to inject your politicized religion into teaching science, or treating all couples equally under the law, demanding that government and society be bent and limited by your psychotic religious ideas.

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-Blame Obama? CHECK!
-Blame “No-Gun Zones”? CHECK!
-Blame Liberal Media? CHECK!
-Blame the Christian Haters CHECK!
-Blame high taxes?  Oops looks like they missed one

– Violent video games, an oldie but goodie, don’t forget the Gays! Secularists, Feminazis, Illegal aliens, Actual aliens, Teacher Unions! (is that still a thing?), Tenured professors, The victims, also too. Gotta blame them.