Liars and/or Fools (and Fires)

Democrats have essentially degenerated into liars and/or fools. There is no third choice. If third graders spoke the way Demos do and of the things they advocate, they would be sent back to kindergarten, en masse.

Republicans haven’t degenerated to anything– they are the same nationalists (neo-socialist- seedlings, as are all nationalists) they have always been. However, Republicans now claim (actually, continue to claim) to be “conservatives.”  They aren’t. Any nature of conservatism within the Republican party (the irony is rich-deep considering its founders and their understanding of a republican UNION) is from the South. The South was the birthplace of republicanism from the initial independence of each state in 1776. Today the South is republican (not Republican) conservative despite its modern home-grown scalawags and the national Yankee carpetbaggers fleeing and occupying the South while waving their DJT flags as they spit on the Bonnie Blue.

A couple of generations back, Barry Goldwater got massacred for attempting to espouse his conservative view (1964 presidential election). A few years after that President Ronald Reagan aspired to attempt– and did talk a good game but blew it right off the bat when he allowed himself to be duped into jettisoning Mel Bradford in favor of Bill Bennett as chairman of The National Endowment for the Humanities. The rest of President Reagan’s efforts continued downhill when he tried to compromise with Yankees like Tip O’Neil. You don’t compromise with most Yankees. You put a barbed-wired fence across the Mason-Dixon line—in your mind, at least. A few you can allow through, but only a few.  And dang fewer of the New England stripe, the original puritanical Yankees, who were loathed, especially by the New York and Pennsylvania Dutch.

The contemporary brand of Republican/”conservatives” are the grandchildren of those who lied to Southerners in ’64 (Goldwater), and who have turned on the Southern conservatives today with their political mischief and ahistorical nonsense about the Democrats and their party principles.  It is the same Republican/“conservatives” who ballyhoo the grand and glorious Reagan days when all Reagan was ever able to accomplish insofar as a renewed republican government was a string of lip service speeches that both parties tepidly applauded in their Washington-Way. Actually, Southerners cheered too, but they had been hoodwinked to the point that they believed they could create in the name of Reagan a new political wave washing through Dixie that would recall the character and strength of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee et al and recall Lord Acton’s words in his correspondence to Lee:

I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. The institutions of your Republic (sic) have not exercised on the old world the salutary and liberating influence which ought to have belonged to them, by reason of those defects and abuses of principle which the Confederate Constitution was expressly and wisely calculated to remedy. I believed that the example of that great Reform (sic) would have blessed all the races of mankind by establishing true freedom purged of the native dangers and disorders of Republics (sic). Therefore, I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo. Lord Acton

But then the ahistorical mendacity of a “civil war about slavery” had not been defined except by untutored and unread political pirates posturing and promoting that inaccuracy only as a backhander to black voters (they did not fool the likes of Booker T. Washington, Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell, it seems).

Today the modern Republican Southern scalawags and their equally modern carpetbagger friends (once again they come South like their ilk of kin of yesteryear) use historical drivel hopefully as an embracement of the redoubtable Barry Goldwater and his “conscience” of a conservative.  Conservative– something they have never been except as a cover to garner votes, while duping Southerners, who are the backbone of the modern Republican electorate.

I heard some woman (Jenny Beth Martin—Tea Party happy hurrah-er) on the Patriot Sirius Channel’s Wilkow Majority the other day (1-28-25) chatting with Wilkow about various attributes of the Constitution and its defense of the Federal government’s right to enforce immigration insofar as the union of states. Of course they referred to it as a “nation.” They have been instructed at the knee of the Republican/”conservatives”; as well as any other political school of thought that believes in national as opposed to federal (most almost surely don’t know the difference, but another story for another day).

It may well have been reduced to a nation after destroying the union under the Republican party with its leader Abraham Lincoln leading the political and military charge. But I defer to Lord Acton above. This of course is old stuff to conservatives. That is, to say, real conservatives and not the Republican/”conservatives.”

But enough digression:

MS Martin squealed and squealed  and seemed to even peak as Wilkow urged her on with his yammering about the current Democrats being the old Democrats of the now-to-be-found Confederate Democrats (sanctuary cities like Minneapolis are the new CSA, they claim) This sounds, of course, like the Mark Levin, or Bill Kristol or “National Review” blather. This sort of Republican/”conservative” gets pretty close to the Democrats’ political reductio ad absurdum messages, i.e. liars or fools.

Kristol, of course, is the “conservative” who once called Dr. Ron Paul a crackpot on a Fox program (several years back).  The pot calling the kettle black? True, but for the kettle not being black.

But one can only hope that the types (there are many to be sure) of Wilkow  and his squealy little guest (she from Georgia) could somehow understand that the only hope for any conservative direction and sanitizing of the bureaucratic state is to realize what the CSA had in common with the Declaration of Independence. However, to expect this is perhaps to expect that a plastic surgeon could improve the appearance of an armadillo.  These people are not as foolish as the Democrats but are more easily fooled. Or perhaps in their efforts to be well-read they have read too much of the wrong material (more than likely).

And the clock is ticking. Possibly before even the 2030 election, the South (like many already) will have had enough of the Republican/”conservatives” and will stay away as if there is no such thing as a conservative among such ilk of the past as Romney or Bush or McCain or presently, President Donald J. Trump.

The Republican/”conservatives” seem to think they are competitive only with the mental-midget Democrats led by its Samalia base and George Soros et al. But this is but a political landfill, its pile and stench always existing.

No! Your true and competent competition is your base, The South. You should not compete with your own base but listen to them.

No? Watch your losses in the near future. And you can be sure that the same liars and fools will return when you lose, and the Republican/”conservatives” will, like the little boy who cried wolf once too often, have no one to come running to help him because he will have recognized that a liar is a liar no matter who tells it.

The Founding Fathers were talking nation vs union and not about some happy kingdom of liberty for all, via a new creation about some nonsense of a “shining city on a hill.” The closest thing that Lincoln and his Yankee provocateurs got to that was when they set Atlanta on fire. The nationalists (posing as unionists) cheered. The unionists actuating that name and fighting in gray coats cried for liberty as it burned. Thank you H.L. Mencken.

How do these Republican/ “conservatives” like being called Nazis?  Something they are not.

They seem to have no problem calling Southerners “traitors.” Treason? Really? No Southerner whom I know or have known of ever declared war on the United States or gave aid and comfort to its enemies. NEVER while they were part of the Union formed in agreement in convention and part of a ratification that stated that they had the right to leave if they became dissatisfied with its workings through participation.  No? Read it sometime, you Yankee burners.

Democrats may be liars they may be fools.  But Republican/”conservatives” made them what they are. And to that end, they are themselves, not far from the same.

And PS to the media et bilge:

The Democrats who exist today are not from the roots of the Anti-Federalists pre- Era of Good Feelings unionists, nor the same Demos afterwards and into the various breeds well into the 20th century. But they certainly are the ilk who bark or howl like a rabid dog in this, the 21st century.

But wait until July 4^th this year (2026). Both sides, Democrats and Republicans will try and burn Atlanta again. One figuratively, and sadly, one literally.

Wanna bet?

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Paul H. Yarbrough

I was born and reared in Mississippi, lived in both Louisiana and Texas (past 40 years). My wonderful wife of 43 years who recently passed away was from Louisiana. I have spent most of my business career in the oil business. I took up writing as a hobby 7 or 8 years ago and love to write about the South. I have just finished a third novel. I also believe in the South and its true beliefs.

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