From last year. after Charlottesville….<\/p>\n
Yesterday was bad.<\/em> Yesterday saw me getting into it with people on Twitter.\u00a0 Once again, perhaps even more forcefully than a year ago, I find myself as a party of one. 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\u2019s inline spell-check think that I misspelled that?) It doesn\u2019t matter, though. People are lining up on two sides. I, naturally, hold both groups with disdain. Who\u2019s worse? The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing","tag-hot-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA lot of the day I spent watching coverage of what was going on in Charlottesville.<\/em>
\n(How does Chrome\u2019s inline spell-check think that I misspelled that?)<\/em>
\nIt doesn\u2019t matter, though. People are lining up on two sides. I, naturally, hold both groups with disdain. Who\u2019s worse? The neo-Nazis. No question. But the Antifa creeps are just that.<\/em>
\nThe frearless governor of Virginia told the Neo-Nazis to go home, and don\u2019t 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\u2019s racist past down\u00a0The Memory hole<\/a>.<\/em>
\nBut you have to erase anything that might spoil your pretense when you\u2019re going to point to how evil others are.<\/em>
\nMy 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 \u201cHairy-Ass\u201d Truman. No, she went and voted for Dewey, but didn\u2019t tell her dad that.<\/em>
\nHe was the son of two off-the-boat Irish immigrants with eleven kids living in very-blue Mississippi, and an adherent to Papist conspiracy.<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nI’m listening to Dave Smith’s discussion about it on his most recent Part of the Problem<\/em> podcast.
\n“I’m disgusted by a swastika, and a hammer and sickle>”\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 Pretty much.
\nBut what happened last year, and the reaction served to further categorize everyone into two groups.
\nNo, there’s not only two sides to every issue.\u00a0\u00a0I can be\u00a0opposed to both the national socialism, and\u00a0democratic socialism.
\nGovernment exists to protect individual rights;\u00a0 life, liberty, and property.
\nOh, but “property” isn’t listed in the Declaration of Independence!!1!\u00a0 But it is in the Fourteenth Amendment, saying that the government cannot abridge it without due process of law.
\nI guess things are lining up miles to my east to try to do this again in DC.
\nI won’t be going.
\nBut I also won’t fall into lockstep with the predictable filtering tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"