Deez, I know that you, Haley, and people born between 1965-1985 are the generation of cowards that failed to stand up to lies and revisionism in the school system and left people like me born post 1985-present a completely broken education system that is worse today at teaching every subject than it was 30 years ago. Your Neville Chamberlain approach of appeasement to the leftist cultural intolerance does not work because PC nazis are insatiable. Giving them the Sudetenland (whether it is confederate memorials or gay marriage) does not satisfy them. So no, I will not vote for the Nicky Chamberlin Haleys of the world.
If I have to stand alone like Churchill, so be it. If I lose like Robert E. Lee, so be it. I am not going to jump off a bridge just because everyone else does. Lee did not believe in slavery, in fact he freed the slaves he inherited. Lee was also a devout Christian. When Lincoln offered him command of the Union Army, he had to decide what the right thing to do was. He could serve an army of one flawed kingdom of man that will not last forever he was loyal to and served his whole life, that was engaged in genocide against native americans in the west (which Lincoln continued unabated in spite of the war), or he could serve another flawed kingdom of man that did not last forever that grossly failed to love a huge portion of its people (the enslaved) the same way it loved the rest (the free). Lee was a bright enough military commander to know the South was always destined to lose. The fact the north did not win in less than a year is truly remarkable and the fierceness with which southerners (the vast majority of whom, like my Texas german ancestor who fought for Colonel Rip Ford in defense of Texas, never owned any slaves) defended themselves is something the entire country should admire, not scorn. Lee knew that siding with the north would almost certainly be more financially prudent and he could certainly end up penniless, in prison or executed serving for the south. What he ultimately came back to was that he could not fight against his own family. When he was dead and gone, he would not carry with him his his nice house in Arlington, his position, wealth or privilege. He would however have to face his family after the war and the ones who were saved after death. So he made the right call in the long run even if it meant losing his house as it was turned into a union cemetery or that a bunch of misinformed and misguided souls decided to spend their time demonizing Lee and focussing on his sins rather than their own 150 years later.
What I care about the most is what happens when I stand for judgment, not how much power the flawed republican party in a flawed, not permanent nation may or may not acquire in the short term by appeasing a bunch of intolerant people that do not have their own priorities straight. I care about the ten commandments and new testament which both say "honor thy father and mother" for my southern ancestors were christian believers who were no more sinful than George Washington or myself and probably every american today that benefits from the unfair exploitation of other people. In fairness, my texas german ancestors who fought for the south, who kept their own farm and did not own slaves were almost certainly less guilty of the exploitation of others than myself or any American today.
This country continues to benefit from slave labor and the exploitation of others. Do americans really think the child laborers that manufacture their goods in China and India do so because they want to? The United Nations currently identities the practices of these countries as slavery. How about the chinese workers constantly dying because they worked 30 hour shifts? You think they freely chose to do that? If you believe that Asians are somehow more inclined to work 30 straight hours than other races, that is stupid and racist. 60 minutes showed how chinese factories have suicide nets outside the buildings due to the high suicide rates. Then there are quite a few americans (walmart and mcdonalds being two guilty institutions) that like exploiting illegal aliens with unfair pay and threats of deportation. A lot of other americans do not think twice about legally screwing their own employees one way or another every day. However, all of these americans will happily focuss on fighting a battle already won against inanimate objects that they mistaktenly believe are to honor an unfair exploitation that occurred 150 years ago... I guess because if those monuments and those that like the monuments are the bad guys, the others americans do not have to face their own sin. The truth is we are all today guilty of these sins.
So, do I intend to add a failure to honor my mother and father when I die to my sins or be unable to look my dead family in the eye when I meet them? No, I, like everyone else, have enough evil and sin myself to answer for as it is.
I lean conservative because conservatives have traditionally stood for Christianity, family and tradition. If "conservatives" like Haley are not going to stand for these things because they want to pick battles over wealth, power and other fleeting things, then they no longer stand with me. Like I said Deez, you will simply have to pursue other votes that care about the issues you care about. Personally though, I think alienating millions of southern voters (see Haley's south carolina poll nosedive) to appease the PC crowd that will vote against her regaedless was not prudent. She'll never get this imperfect voter's support.
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