From last year. after Charlottesville….
Yesterday was bad.
A lot of the day I spent watching coverage of what was going on in Charlottesville.
(How does Chrome’s inline spell-check think that I misspelled that?)
It doesn’t matter, though. People are lining up on two sides. I, naturally, hold both groups with disdain. Who’s worse? The neo-Nazis. No question. But the Antifa creeps are just that.
The frearless governor of Virginia told the Neo-Nazis to go home, and don’t come back. Yes. I say the same thing to the fucks who provoked them. I also say it to the people of his party who are trying to shove the party’s racist past down The Memory hole.
But you have to erase anything that might spoil your pretense when you’re going to point to how evil others are.
My take on it is a little different than most, certainly. The more I learn about my lineage, the less I know for sure. I do know that my mostly-white father left Mississippi in the early-70s to go kill a Commie for Mommy, and GTFO of the solid South. My grandmother used to tell stories of how the first time she was eligible to vote, her father (my great-grandfather) told her very forcefully that she was going to go vote for “Hairy-Ass” Truman. No, she went and voted for Dewey, but didn’t tell her dad that.
He was the son of two off-the-boat Irish immigrants with eleven kids living in very-blue Mississippi, and an adherent to Papist conspiracy.
Yesterday saw me getting into it with people on Twitter. Once again, perhaps even more forcefully than a year ago, I find myself as a party of one.
I’m listening to Dave Smith’s discussion about it on his most recent Part of the Problem podcast.
“I’m disgusted by a swastika, and a hammer and sickle>” Yep. Pretty much.
But what happened last year, and the reaction served to further categorize everyone into two groups.
No, there’s not only two sides to every issue. I can be opposed to both the national socialism, and democratic socialism.
Government exists to protect individual rights; life, liberty, and property.
Oh, but “property” isn’t listed in the Declaration of Independence!!1! But it is in the Fourteenth Amendment, saying that the government cannot abridge it without due process of law.
I guess things are lining up miles to my east to try to do this again in DC.
I won’t be going.
But I also won’t fall into lockstep with the predictable filtering tomorrow.