Recently, John Kelly, digging his own grave from what used to be a stellar reputation, opened his mouth and dug an ever increasingly large hole when he ventured into telling his Alt-right version of the cause of the Civil War. When you are so very ignorant of history, it is best to shut up and say nothing. (Which, irony of irony, I am sure some readers are saying about me.)
In order to understand the American Civil War, once must go back to ancient times. Bear with me on this journey; it will pay off in time. Slavery has been with us since time immortal. In fact the antislavery groups report that there is more slavery today, in the modern-day and age than ever before in world history. But not all slavery is the same. It is a spectrum and that distinction is important. On the one side, the main source of slaves were those people, men and women, who lost battles and wars, once captured were reduced from citizen to slave. Since their lives were forfeit, the enslaving of their labour was the price the slave paid for being allowed to live. It was brutal and could be even worse than a living death but you remained alive. On the other hand you have Aristotle speaking of people being natural slaves. I would argue that this is merely his lack of words to describe personalities such as Alpha Males to Beta males. But you can see that slavery as a concept was more than just the brutality of the institution but part of cultural and normative speech. What I am contrasting is this; the beating of a man for trying to escape is being done at the same time, in the highest salons, where men of knowledge and leisure are talking seriously about philosophy. The highest to the lowest, contained the notion of slavery. It was not a single idea.
The concept of slavery is also in the Bible. But here it is more a form of social welfare. Again we have people taken into slavery when they lose the war but they also have the rule of seven. Every seventh year slavers would release those enslaved. What this amounted to was something like this. You could not keep up with bill so you would be enslaved for up to 7 years. So for example, your sister’s husband was useless and could not support the family. He would borrow and borrow until he would be declared a slave. The wife, your sister and her kids would not just him. But you would then have to support him and your sister and her family. He would have to work or be beaten because he was a slave, but it was hoped that after seven years he would buy a clue and work harder to support his family and thus avoid going back into slavery; a sort of social welfare program in ancient Israel.
With all this in mind we turn to the USA. There are three distinctive periods. You can break this up into many more but we only need to look at three period. The first period, is the time at the start of slavery. What many people do not know is the first slaves in the USA were not black or aboriginal. They were white and many were white women from Europe. They came over as indentured servants but women being in high demand would escape and moving only a few miles away they could be married and raise their children as free women. Clearly that would not work out. Next they tried aboriginals. They too could escape into the aboriginal underground railway and escape back to their own people. So plan number 2 failed. Last, they tried the Africans, but not the ones from Africa, not yet any ways. They took Africans from the Islands where they had been enslaved there for a few hundred years by the British and Spanish. They would become the house Negros. The problem was that the USA was growing so fast they could not get enough slaves from the Caribbean’s to satisfy the demand. So they returned to the source Africa. Thus the second era of American slavery where the people brought were chattel. You could buy and sell people in the market. A ship would come in and the product would be made to dance for the potential new master. The humiliation and degradation of their humanity can clearly be seen. These were not humans they were animals. By the last stage, the importation and sale of blacks had been stopped. But the ideology of the situation had ingrained itself. Before, you lost a war or could not pay your debts, which made you a slave under those conditions. You were not merely born a slave, inferior to all of the master class. Except, remember Aristotle? Yes the part about some people being born with a bent to being slaves? Mix that in with them being property. Add in a douse of the Bible permitting slavery and you have the American South and their treatment of slaves. (I would also like to note there is more than a hint of rape when the master or over seer would take what they wanted from the lady in question, who as a slave cannot say “No”. No matter what she wants to do.)
Turning to the Civil War, why was it fought? The obvious answer is to end slavery. The counter example as John Kelly tried to argue is “State’s Rights.” The problem is that both answers are the same thing. The argument is void. Taste great or less filling? States rights for what? States right to own slavery. It is the same issue with a different heading. And in fact, either side, state right or slavery is not a cause of the Civil War. What you have is a country divided over ideology. Not over the law or the constitution. In fact, state’s right were best preserved within the framework established. Dred Scott V Sanford ruled on by Roger Tawny was the law of the land. The white man had to respect no right that a black man might want to claim. He was not even a man, but constitutionally 2/3 of one who was born white, as written in the compromise of the Founding Fathers. The limitation on slavery was also tossed out by Tawny at the same time. So in point of fact, there would be no Amendment to the constitution or limitation on the westward expansion of slavery within the bounds of the USA as written in the constitution. So what state right were they fighting for? What end to slavery was going to happen? The south had already won the legal war, the constitutional war and they could keep growing within the existing governmental framework. So we ask again why? Why did the South rebel? The answer is Hubris or arrogance. Because they could lord it over their sub-human property, their mindset was able to lord it over the also inferior northern and abolitionists. They were also inferior. The South were not going to war, they were going to humiliate the North to surrender talks. They were going to whip them on the battlefield with ease because they, the white were the ones who were truly the lords own. As shown by their power over blacks. This arrogance when put to the test would be the cause of the Civil War. They need not compromise; they need not try to find a middle ground. They need not do anything but be lord and master and all of God’s grace would fall upon them as it has always been.
So when Lincoln was elected, he was not a human. He was a gorilla or a monkey. Heck he might even be the product of a half-breed animal experiment. He was not, however, human. He was not equal to a Southern Gentlemen. He was a northerner and inferior, as all Northerner were, to Southerners. So there was no need to wait for his arrival in Washington to take over as President. We shall end this union, they call we shall depart and when they try, let them try to come and get us, for the South shall rise up and smite the aggressive northerners who being inferior could only think in violence. Hence started the myth of and known today as the War of Northern Aggression.
Both Grant and Lincoln understood what had to happen, and why. Grant by his constant worrying of the South. (Word usage, to worry a knot is to play with it until it worked loose to be untied.) This is how he overcame on the Mississippi. This is how he broke army after army of the Southern Rebels. And this is why he let Sherman take his march to the sea. Not for mere vengeance. It was a raid that was designed to humiliate the people and oppress the whites. To hammer home they were losers, they were weak, and they were not gods, god like or godly. They were now the inferior humans fit only to be enslaved. Remember when you lose a war, you forfeit your life but the winner could enslave you as the price to allow you to keep on living. Every Southerner who traces lineage to the south in that war has the heritage of being descended of white slaves that the Yankees could have shackled at any time under the ancient laws of slavery. Even under the bible and biblical law. Hence the need for the “Lost Cause Myth.” It was something to save the southern mindset from the disaster they had wrought upon themselves in this war.
The thing is this. The trip to history is always nice but we must understand the lesson is still applicable to today’s America, Trump’s America. The Alt right is showing the same ignorance and acting as if they were, themselves, gods today in their manner, their actions and their speeches. As if somehow Donald Trump winning the Electoral College was a victory of the popular vote. Well he lost that vote. So instead of accepting his election as being less than perfect, he called those extra votes, illegal. His inauguration had to be the biggest event, ever. When clearly seen in pictures and attendance it was not. This is not a question of fact but one of Ideological confirmation of their bias. They were godlike; therefore all must be inferior to their actions. This is not a denial of reality for its own sake. It is a denial that we can use to establish their mind-set and ideology. As much as it was in 1860, the mindset of the modern Alt Right is in the same denial of reality. It can be seen in the notion of gun control. How dare you try to take away my guns? As if you needed to have 30 guns. The whole gun ownership argument is like a man who has 999 toilets in his back yard. Why 999? Because only a fool has 1000 toilets in his backyard. Same for the amount of guns people have, but similarly the mindset. Look at the power of life and death I have over the beast in the woods. I can kill it with but a pull of my finger. What power I have to do the same in streets of Vegas or in Texas or any other place where mass slaughter has happened. It is not the work of a madman. It is the work of Mad Men who allowed the state to create the opportunity for slaughter. Look at abortion. The lordly males must protect their offspring and force the slave called women to carry their child to term, for in their ideology, the man is lord and master and the women is the beast of burden to carry the water and the child. This is why the ideology is to close down the access to abortion as fast as they can put out new laws repressing women, as if the point had anything to do with the unborn child. The state could bring up progressive policies like paid maternity leave, socialized day care, tax breaks and incentives. All of which are an affront to their ideology, to hand out things to people, lower people, inferior people? How dare they even ask for such things? The whole abortion debate having nothing to do with the child, but everything to controlling the women and enslaving her. When you look where the fight for abortion rights is happening, it is mostly in the states that used to be in the Southern Confederacy.
Lastly, the newest victim, transgender and their washroom bills limiting access to certain people. Make the Trans person go to a bathroom they were born with, not what they identify as. Why? What purpose? There is no purpose other than to enslave, humiliate and depreciate the Trans person into be under the foot of their new master, the bathroom bill itself.
The cause of the civil war is born in ideology of slavery, the hubris of arrogance to control others. It has not left us and we are not cure from it. But just like the Civil War, were countless men and women died to resist the enslaver, so too, today we resist and fight back. Trump having one his victory a year ago, has made no legislation, passed no tax reform, or abolished Obama care, the Affordable Health Care act. Law enforcement is closing in on him. The legal noose is tightening around the necks of his allies and slowly will they be arrested, tried and condemned to serve long prison sentence. If they had instead flown under the radar as private citizens, it might have never come to light what crimes they have done. But they too have shown their hubris and arrogance and thus beware of their pre ordained fate. The gods hold onto their power dearly and share it with no one. As the slavers found out, the wage of their sins was death, destruction and failure. Today, so too shall be the end result for the Alt right, Trump and his cronies and the people who supported them. Judgement day is coming and payback it’s a bitch. The Karma will soon run over their dogma.

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It’s the story de jure. Who is who in Hollywood and politics, that they can hold their power over someone else and use it to demean and control another person. The problem is on the flip side, that now everything is sexual harassment. This is not the case. What is sexual harassment is very serious and should not be cheapened by the ill informed and misunderstanding that is out in the mean stream of society today.
To begin with, what is not sexual harassment? It is not, in the eyes of the court (SCOTUS) designed to “stop the procreation of the species.” It is design to stop harassment of a special sort, along the lines of sexuality in nature. The first question must not be is this sexual in nature? So statements of “You look pretty, nice dress, looking good there.” Such statements while sexual in nature are not the first stop in the discovery process. If someone were to ask another person out and be refused one of twice, again would not considered sexual harassment. You need to establish a case for harassment first then that the harassment is of a sexual nature. So first, one text, one call, one ask for a date is not harassment. 1000 is clearly is. The ground only gets murky in the harasser’s mind. Next and this is equally important, if not essential. If the behavior is making you feel uncomfortable, you need to say the magic word. “Stop.” or “leave me alone or even go away.” Remember without saying this, the job of proving harassment become infinitely harder to prove. If the behavior is merely causing discomfort, without some clear statement to this effect to cease the action, a reasonable person might be confused at the reason why their behavior is causing discomfort. Lastly, does the behavior come into a form of sexuality? Mere harassment is a wider net whereas sexual harassment is very specific.
Just saying to someone, “You look pretty!” is not harassment. Saying it daily, or multiple times a day can be seen as bothersome especially if you have been told to stop. So yes, you can ask someone out, offer compliments and even go on dates without crossing the line into harassment or worse sexual harassment.

In Virginia, Bob Marshal, the anti LBGTQ republican who wrote the states horrible bathroom bill against trans people, self described as the homophobe in chief, has been defeated in his re-election bid by Danica Roem, a Trans MTF, in the state’s election this week. How sweet it is to see justice arrive in its glorious poetic fashion. Bye bye Bob, see if Trump will hire you for some job that needs another hatemonger in his cabinet. Roem, for her part, refused to attack, belittle or even be condescending to Marshal, saying he was now one of the citizens she represents and she will do so for all the people in her district to the best of her ability.
In other news, Roy Moore, running for Senate in Alabama, has been accused of being a pedophile. Him and Milo can chat? Kevin Spacey is accused of hitting on a 14 year old boy, who was out at a late night party but no more than that. Roy is accused of sexual touching and ejaculation. Spacey is disgraced, losing his reputation; his hit TV series and is publicly shunned by the media and Hollywood, as he should be for his actions. Milo Yiannopoulos, for seemingly to support such behavior, lost his job as an editor. Lost his book deal, speaking tours and finally, even Robert Mercer could not handle the stench around him. But again, at no point has anyone accused either Spacey or Yiannopoulos of doing the “deed.” Roy Moore? Did and done as it were. GOP State Rep. Ed Henry calls for “legal action should be taken against the women who accused Roy Moore of sexual misconduct with a minor… “If they believe this man is predatory, they are guilty of allowing him to exist for 40 years,” Henry said. “I think someone should prosecute and go after them. You can’t be a victim 40 years later, in my opinion.” (The Hill) Moore a bible thumping, Holier than thou, type hypercritic has called the report “fake news” and is ignore any and all calls for his resignation from the election.
So the tally for the Grand Old Party is: Tiki Torch Neo Nazis, not all bad. Racists, well some are good people, Steve Bannon, Roy Moore, numerous traitors like Trump et family, Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn along with his son, John Kelly, Sean Spicer and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. And the list grows longer every day. The alt right is big on the bible, “What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?” Isaiah 10:3
Judgement day is coming and soon: first, by the courts then for the rest, not indicted, at the ballot box. How many more people must the Republicans scrap the bottom of the barrel to find before they start to think about what they are doing and for whom they lend support. Can they not find a man or a woman who is not a traitor? Racist? Pedophile? They stopped being options, and now are features.
Wake up people. You would not elect a pedophile as dog catcher. Don’t elect one as Senator.