You know, I try to resist the demons in my head that say "let Dixie burn in hell." After all, many of the finest liberals, ones that take hits and endorse terrors that many in New York and California would faint at even thinking of, are in Dixie. I also know that Dixie were ever to get "independence" that the collateral damage would be epic. The hammer would drop on Blacks, Browns, and any white person who is slightly to the left of Jefferson Davis.
However, seeing South Carolina act in a way that was more predictable than a bad television script does a lot to keep frost in my heart cold. After all, if all bowling wanted was desperate workers and she planned to put a factory in, why not Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania you know, the former "blue wall" states that voted against Hillary because they wanted their old jobs back. I'll bet hard currency but the governors of any of the aforementioned states would've done severe political gymnastics if Boeing had hinted at going there.
But no, they have to go for a labor was even cheaper, and where people already used to sacrificing their health, their integrity, even their very soul to make rich white men happy. They want to make sure that they were in a climate where Klansmen would hang union people. Well nowadays they don't actually have the honesty to hang people, they just use second amendment remedies, made easy by the fact that the NRA makes it easier for you to buy a handgun than it does to buy medicine.
Let's also not forget that in Dixie, the churches don't even bother sneaking through the back door of politics, they preach it from the pulpit. Heaven forbid that poor people have any recourse for their bread or their education than the church, whose plan all along is to make sure that people are cattle going neatly along the track from the calves pen to the slaughterhouse. The church was a friend of slave masters in the antebellum era, they are still her allies now. And heaven knows what the church did to clearly demonize the unions.
So South Carolina, so rest of Dixie, I am sincerely trying not to hate you, that is bad enough that you submit yourselves to a subservience that many in the so-called "Third World" refuse to take. No, because you like to force your conditions on everyone around you. It's one thing to be an addict, it's another to force the consequences of that addiction onto your whole damn family, even those you wind up depending on the bail your ass out of jail have to time. And don't you dare go ahead and talk about Southern pride, when you know damn well that Boeing came to you for cheap exploitable labor. You also know that you're just a halfway house until the day Boeing gets the ability to move to Mexico or China. When they do move to Mexico in China, all these pats on the head and complements they give you are not being union will wind up being forgotten, especially as once they go to Mexico and China, they will not even need to pretend to respect anyone.
And of course, the preachers of the big churches will still make their money, making millions off of your pennies. What's worse, you will still do everything you can to sabotage her own self-interest, is your culture gives you a sense of arrogance; you may start, you may not be able for the doctor, but you got that pride about the fact you let yourself get work harder than a horse on its way to the glue factory. And worse, you're arrogant about that fact.
I do hope that the South never gets its way and becomes the old Confederate states of America. Again, I say this because the collateral damage would be ugly. When the slave markets get opened up, I, unlike many New York and California, will not just tsk tsk and get my self-righteous jollies while watching CNN at the Starbucks. But the sad fact is, I can understand why they would, at the rate we're going, we might very well have to consider whether or not this separation of cultures will lead to the eventual divorce.
I'll tell you one thing the, if it comes to that, even with all the Dixie flags you want over Florida, a Florida is sustained by Northern investment. If there is a divorce, I will fully support taking Florida to the cleaners, as if the state was some husband that got caught cheating with three mistresses in his wife's bed.
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