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In reply to the discussion: ...and then a man rode through the lines bearing a white flag. [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)The only Confederate that surrendered that day was Lee. The rest, like Nathan Bedford Forrest, kept fighting that war, and handed the baton to people ranging from D.W. Griffith to Bob Jones to George Wallace to David Duke to Tom Delay to Rand Paul. Dixie has never stopped fighting the Civil War, which is why America is mostly controlled by a bunch of GOP operative and their allies in the democratic party, the Blue Dogs who should be called "Dixiecrats."
I do not want a second civil war, as all that will do is make Moscow, Dubai and Beijing pop champagne as they decide to divvy up our bones. But the time is coming very soon where the South may be reminded that that just because we tried to show "malice toward none" we will not allow ourselves to be played for fools. Whenever a Mary Landrieu or Debbie Wasserman Schulz or Joe Manchin actively throws spanners into the gears to suit their purpose, they need to ushered out, and when the GOP starts waving the stars and bars to suit their agenda, they need to be called out as fools, and reminded that the South not only lost, but that they deserved to lose, and that most countries would not have shown them mercy, much less allow them right back into the same poloitical process they tried to destroy!
I do nto support Martyr making, but Jeff Davis should not have died free. At the very least, he should have died in a jail, where he probably would have enjoyed a better lifestyle than the people he tried to keep as slaves.