Clyde Wilson, Abbeville Institute:
American culture, both folk and high, barely exists and only in fragments. Americans by and large have lost all sense of Place and history and have no roots, are cultureless beings. Real Christian faith barely survives. An adult American from the 1950s would not even recognize his country today, and would not like what he saw.
The South, changed and atrophied as it is, is the last bastion of the Western soul in a totally materialist society ruled from the top by corrupt elites – the reign of money.
The areas of the North and West that are today the most conservative received large settlements of Southerners. The formerly soulless highly Republican areas are now far left. They are still robbing the people but now the call it globalisation rather than tariffs and banking.
Tearing down our statues and memorials is not the result of an interpretation of history. Even if the South-haters were right about history – and they are not – it would make no difference. They act because they want to erase all real history and because they hate us. Their massive vanity seeks to eliminate us from a country they think is theirs and they bask in their power over us. Although their country is only some future thing that exists only in their imagination. Defending the South and its monuments defends the remnants of Western civilization in North America.
Historians and politicians continue to repeat the lie that the Founding Fathers nobly wanted to end slavery but did not because fear of losing the Southern States. This is ignorant, childish, and superficial almost beyond belief. The Founding Fathers, including the Southern ones, knew slavery was a problem but also knew that had absolutely no power to act on it and no idea of how to end it. Many Northern Founders held slaves and others were engaged profitably in the African slave trade. To say that the Founders agreed not to end slavery only to please the Southern States is to make the stupid assumption that the Union was founded by Northerners and Southerners were only a redheaded stepchild in the process of creating the United State, merely allowed along by the real Northern Founders.
Reading that reminds me of several “politically correct” actions.
Among them was the removal of the Statue of a Confederate Soldier ( Silent Sam ) on the campus of my alma mater the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. was toppled by a mob. Sam is stored at an undisclosed location.
On Richmond’s Monument Avenue the statutes of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were also removed.
In 2020 more than160 such memorials were taken down.
Here is another such story that has a happy ending.
In 2022 the Naming Commission recommended that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be removed. Biden’s Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin agreed to implement the suggestion, and Arlington National Cemetery made plans for removing and relocating the Confederate Memorial by the start of 2024 at the latest. The monument was removed on December 20, 2023. The memorial’s granite base remained to avoid disturbing nearby graves.
In 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated that the monument would be returned to Arlington National Cemetery and put on display in 2027.
Good for Pete Hegseth. (-:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zOSX3E_jR0
Yes, Fred, that was really good to see the monument was restored at Arlington National. Every victory against cultural Marxism must be appreciated. Let’s hope it’s not temporary.
Maybe some karma re the Silent Sam vandals, Fred: NC State has beaten UNC in football 5 years in a row now.
Sam sure didn’t fire his gun the couple of times I walked past with a date. 😉
“Historians and politicians continue to repeat the lie that the Founding Fathers nobly wanted to end slavery but did not because fear of losing the Southern States. ”
The evil bargain that was made at the Constitutional Convention (truly a conspiracy behind locked doors and windows) was that SC and GA would vote against George Mason’s 2/3 majority needed to regulate commerce in exchange for the Northern states voting for 20 more years of slave importation. (All the other states, including NC, had already effectively outlawed importation.)
A 2/3 majority vote requirement for Congress to regulate commerce would have prevented the Tariff of Abominations, etc. and therefore prevented Lincoln’s War. It would have prevented Obamacare. This evil bargain weakened the Constitution more than any other one thing, though Supreme Ct judges APPOINTED for LIFE is a close second.
Wow, J. Sobran– was unaware of that deal. You are right– enormous implications.