Left Overs

The radical wing of the Republican Party (which now seems to be most of the Party) are left overs from the Civil War. This war we have, for the most part, put behind us. That is, most of Americans didn't grow up in that time and we find more interesting the modern ideas of our modern democracy. But for those that were brought up in the South the view of America is quite different. We have under estimated (like Bush did) the affects of war. Many families destroyed, horror upon horror of people being treated as if they were hated (they were, deeply I am afraid). Hated so deeply that they wanted to preserve that hate, they didn't want it to die. They believed that keeping this hate alive would keep the confederacy alive, until a certain time when once again the South would rise up to form its own nation. With the encouragement of the Drug companies they are now thinking that this is the time. There is a slave in the White House for god's sake. This is not acceptable. For one, our children will be exposed to a black man who is intelligent, educated, and articulate. We were against freeing the slaves and this proves us right. Second, he (Obama) is everything we've told our children the black people can not be. Making us liars to our children, (that's why we have to call him all those names, even if they are contradictory). Third, our parent's and grandparent's taught us to live for the day when the South will raise again (that's why we keep and show off our guns). If we don't fight now what have we to live for? We are genetic racists, the only way to get ride of us is to kill us. Their families were very hurt in the war. It is left to them to carry the flag of the Confederacy. We can live with left overs if we just don't give them any power. We must understand them. When one of the leading Republicans in Washington says (in response to Polsi's plea to tone down the political rhetoric) that the white southerners of the Republican right are rebelling because they are afraid that their children will not experience an America that they experienced. Well, change is like death, it is irrelevant to be afraid of it. It is so unreasonable to think that today's America is or will be the same as it was as little as 10 years ago. But it is this kind of reasoning, even from the highest levels of the left overs that propells them, drives them, and defines them.