The salt of the Earth, the backbone of the nation, and the true Americans who rightly call themselves that when asked their ethnicity and think this is their country gave us, according to Pat Buchanan and Jim Webb, our Constitution, our republic, and our traditions of liberty.
They - and America's English, whom Buchanan and Webb chose to ignore in the 2008 campaign for the votes of Appalachia - also gave us a Southern economy built on slavery, destroyed the Union and fought a terrible war of secession to keep it, and then gave us in vengeance for defeat the Ku Klux Klan.
Theirs remains the most racist subculture in America, and with its equally bitter hillbilly politics and hillbilly religion it remains the most determinedly stupid, backward, and obstructive to national progress.
If they deserve, as they endlessly claim, exclusive credit for America's founding and its founding values and institutions, they equally deserve exclusive blame.
Leave the rest of us Americans out of it, then - all us non-Europeans, non-whites, and Ethnics, as euro-whites from outside today's UK used to be called.
It is true our fathers did not fight and die for the Declaration of Independence.
But neither did they fight and die for slavery, though they did, many of them, the poor deluded sods, die to make the world safe for democracy, liberty, and capitalism against the Kaiser, the Fuhrer, and the dictatorships of international communism.
Bah. Humbug.
I'm confused - I frequently am, it being a result of old age and dry martinis - the latter being, of course, the greatest boon to Mankind so far handed down by America!
ReplyDeleteAre you suggesting that the men who fought the Kaiser, Hitler and stood guard against Soviet ambitions would have been better employed staying at home?
Jest askin'?
I have no idea of their employment opportunities.
ReplyDeleteI'm partial to Jamieson, myself.
Sad I discovered it very late in life.
Rather like finally meeting the right woman at 60, I suppose.
Oh, what the hell, make mine a large one!
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