I hope he’s right.

I’ve also lived in the south and I’ve seen the pro-confederacy movement get stronger as I grew older, so I don’t agree that it’s on its last breath… but I really do hope I’m wrong.

Having grown up in Arkansas, the thing that surprised me the most was that this wasn’t near Harrison.

But it’s in the Northeastern Corner near Pocahontas, yup, still makes sense.

I can understand that.

However I grew up in the US south. My response was “Yea… that sounds about right…”

I imagine the GOP would actually do something about it though

My state has a supermajority Republicans for the last ten or so years. The cities police are under control over the state instead of the cities themselves. Crime has risen… but they still parrot that “liberal cities are crime infested” (feature not a bug), we can vote on bills through a petition process, they’re trying to kneecap that, while the past few bills pass overwhelmingly progressive parts but the Republican supermajority either reintroduces the bill with confusing language to overturn it, overturns it directly while saying “People didn’t know what they were voting for”, or just outright ignores it (We put into our constitution for medicaid expansion. They’ve not implemented it in over five years, just ignoring it). We’re now a flyover state that is about to get rid of income tax and increase sales tax, despite the two major population centers are right on the border for other states.

Yet our idiots that live here keep voting for these assholes.

It’s not about the confederacy itself but look up the book “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth” to learn how a relatively unimportant location in Texas has become an international symbol of defiance and American spirit… when it was a bunch of slave owners invading Mexico, ignoring the laws, then stealing the land.

The book covers the history of Alamo, and the battle of the Alamo is only in the first quarter, it goes all the way to modern era. It helps show how that group twists myths to their advantage.

The Confederacy should have been burned to the ground, its leaders and supporters hanged and their bodies left to rot in the sun.

I come from the south, I know my heritage has a confederate officer in it.

John Brown did nothing wrong.

“Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy?”

I live in a red state.

LOL. LMAO even.

They WILL vote against their interests as long as the R is next to the name.

I’m so tired of unelected people making rules for my life.

When people ask if I trust the government on any conversation that things like this come up I tell them my motto is “Don’t trust the government, unless it means trusting a corporation. Then DEFINITELY don’t trust the corporation.”

I think the United States as we knew it is dying

I grew up in the US south.

This IS the US as I’ve known it.

The rest of the country got complacent about the people that supported the splitoff faction that wanted to own people as backwoods hicks and not as a viable threat despite them infesting many of the states that literally sent men to die to stop them. Laughed when they said “The south will rise again” despite them having an outsized power in politics and when called out were nice when they said “It’s heritage, not hate.”

They were ready to arrest those who went against the president during Bush Jr era. Nixon welcomed them into the fold after LBJ pissed off the Dixiecrats by signing in the Civil Rights Acts and every Republican since, just as the Democrats did before. The country never finished the job and now the house is infested.

Oh no, you don’t get to drop something like that without further context!

I’ve known about Christianity is almost the English of Religions as in it sneaks other religions in the alley, knocks them over the head and riffles through their pockets for traditions, and weirdly knew about the Santa comes from Odin…

I did not know anything about the Mother Mary side though, that is really fantastic to learn.

Oh I’ve done the compassion front right up until the last election. I talked just like this on “No, we need to meet halfway.”

After enough “I did it to own the libs” I’ve learned my lesson.

Where does that get you? Does writing them off instead of reaching out to them make the world better?

I’ll tell you where working with them, trying to understand them, trying to help them see how the different parties have direct affect on their lives has gotten me. I’ve got to have the ability to talk republican because I work in blue collar jobs, yet I’ve tried so very hard to show how it directly affects their lives and being compassionate.

It’s gotten me them proudly coming in and crowing they voted Republican, keeping to their sports teams, and the people who hate the republicans telling me “I just really don’t care about politics.”

So where does me writing them off get me? Finally understanding I CANNOT get to them, and my life has been a process of teaching a pig to sing. It wastes my time and annoys the pig.

This is 100% an energy I have daily at work.

And around friends.

And strangers.

And by myself at home.

Okay, that is cool!

I would like to subscribe to more obscure connections of modern iconography to unrelated mythology.

Yet we have people that seems to defend these people like they’re not.

I don’t have a lot of hope of “winning people over”, it might come from living in a red state where people keep voting for the party that fucks them over, they get mad when they get fucked over, then they vote for the party that promises to take away the lube.

Only because of her son I’m not cackling madly. That truly, awfully sucks for her son, he’s an innocent who got the shit end of the stick and born to a shit person.

But any conservatives that voted for this or non-conservatives that stayed home instead of voting against it that needs medicaid to live and are terrified by this, understand I am full on Nelson laughing at you.

As in: WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?

They’re the ones that are supporting tyranny. The 2A shit was always a grift.

Cripes…No Democrats, it’s not fighting Texas, it’s fighting against every damn red state.

Speak to shit realistically for the love of democracy.

From Missouri: THANK YOU!

I mean, demons, at least I think it was demons, were coming out of every orifice so might as well have been an ass-bell