No quotation today, Minions. Just deal.
I have just returned from a quick, and much-needed, weekend in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Yes, THAT Gettysburg.
History Repeats?
It was really a spur-of-the-moment thing, and admittedly, because I was lazy. I have a life-long friend in Pittsburgh, and I wanted to see him, but truth to tell, I did NOT want to either drive all that way or fly out there. So, we agreed upon a field trip and met each other at a convenient midway point.
Had a wonderful time with my friend and his family, really great people, and then took in the local history, which, I must say, is somewhat appropriate at this particular point in history, what with democrats (small 'd' intentional) getting all uppity and nullification-y, and quite frankly, just plain, fucking stupid.
One could be forgiven if one detects something of a nascent (Un)Civil War brewing in this day and age.
The Outcome will be the same: the forces of tyranny will, once again, be defeated. This is mostly because the number of True Believers on The Other Side, much like their Confederate forebears, are possessed of many of the same qualities: smugness, self-righteousness detached from any moral anchor, unrealistic expectations and hubris that cannot be measured by any known quantifier.
Robert E. Lee, for all of his celebrated military genius, stepped outside the bounds of good military process and decided that in lieu of a battlefield triumph that delivered military victory, that a symbolic political victory would do just as well: his goal in joining battle was not so much to destroy the Union Army as much as it was to inflict an embarrassing defeat that would make the Northern cause look bad.
Having been spanked, thusly, the North should, logically, surrender, and leave the Rebels to their slave-keeping, degenerate ways.
There are other parallels in history, the most-recent that come to mind are the Japanese in the Second World War and the Viet Cong in the Vietnam war. A power that knows it cannot win a protracted war turns it's efforts from military strategy to political strategy: attack not the other guy's army, but his public support for continuation of conflict.
Contrary to popular belief (a belief I also held until yesterday), Lee's invasion of the North was not intended to smash any Union troops in his path; it was intended, originally, to feed his hungry troops, since the earlier battles of the War had devastated the Virginia farmland he had been depending upon.
He was successful with regards to this goal, but the problem was that Gettysburg just happened to be a major crossroads town, and crossroads draw armies like moths to flames, or like a Welfare Queen to government cheese.
Battle was a foregone conclusion under these circumstances once the two armies were aware of the presence of the other.
Lee's defeat followed. His military genius deserted him right at the moment when he was at his apex of prowess, much like Yamamoto and The Viet Cong. Where Gettysburg spells eventual defeat for Lee, Midway and Guadalcanal for Yamamoto and Tet for the American Army, it was a battle that turned out to doom the cause by sapping the morale of the populace.
It gave the respective publics a reason to continue or cease fighting, just not in the way Lee expected.
One hundred and sixty-five thousand men fought at Gettysburg for three days in July 1863. Counting the wounded who would die later of their wounds or later in life because of their suffering in those Pennsylvania fields, 30,000 or so would pay for stupidity, arrogance, poor strategy, and very bad pre-war reasoning for the mistakes made by their leaders.
The New Plantation?
The parallel with today's situation is very much the same. The South fought so that they may live while others worked, and today's democrat (small 'd' intentional) does much the same.
There is a curious aspect to the history of warfare, at least I think so, that those who lose the war usually turn out to somehow win the peace.
Hitler lost his war, for example, but there is much to the Nazi occupation and economic plan for Europe that is mirrored in the European Union, and the idea of "democratic socialism" based on the premise of ethnicity, if not race, underpins much of the European social safety net. Finns, Swedes and Norwegians do not plop for socialized medicine and the rest of the claptrap because they believe in it as a political policy, but because they recognize one another as members of a unique culture, speaking the same language and being, due to their smaller numbers, really as much an extended family as they are a nation.
In a way, the Confederacy won their war in the sense that the Old Plantation of Massah and the Overseer was replaced by the New Plantation of the Fed'ral Gubmint and the Welfare State.
Over time, that Welfare State, intended to keep the descendants of the former slaves in their place, gradually extended itself into other aspects of American Life, so that we have the curious circumstance where a Trust Fund Baby preaches Communism from inside the Ivory Tower of Academia, knowing full-well that her (it's usually a 'her') bullshit is primarily supported by the proceeds of Capitalism.
She draws a good living for doing things most people don't need nor want done and feels entitled to keeping it, regardless of it's utility, in much the same way the Inner City Baby Factory feels entitled to keeping the gravy train running while she keeps on producing things -- mostly children she won't raise or feed, who will either grow up to emulate her slovenly habits or visit untold terror on their communities -- that no one has any use for.
The Bureaucrat who depends upon the New Plantation to pay, again, HER, to hand out other people's money while skimming her own off the top, also needs the Plantation to remain in place because otherwise that piece of useless shit would have to find a job, and then discover that she has no talent or utility, either.
The left-wing politicians who exist solely to profit off of other people's misery, likewise, requires the continuation of the New Plantation, because it's easy to farm votes from people kept on the edge of deprivation (as if?) than to work for a living.
In the end, a war fought, ostensibly, for the freedom of all that was the promise of the Declaration of Independence turns out, instead, to have been subverted and hijacked to enforce a new kind of slavery: devotion and dependence upon the taxpayer.
And this, above all else, is what the democrats (small 'd' intentional) are really angry about, these days: they see the endless funding of their bullshit scams coming to an end with a regime determined to not only destroy them politically, but to financially piss on their ashes, as well.
After all, how many economic opportunities do you think are out there for a face-pierced, blue-haired, lesbian steeped in bullshit social science and politics, bearing a degree in Queer Theory? Without government, these people would be committing suicide at astounding rates. Instead, much like Lee's compatriots, they'd rather fight -- and eventually lose -- than change their methods or tunes. The Confederacy's ultimate enemy wasn't the North, it was the advance of technology that would make the slaves excess-to-needs, and then what happens when you have four or five million people with legitimate gripes, no prospects, education or capital aimlessly wandering the landscape?
The same is true today of the dependent class, regardless of race.
And while the ANTIFA moron in the streets might consider himself a modern-day John Brown(shirt) or Nathan Bedford Forest flying under false colors, none of them has the courage or fortitude to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in an open field to be needlessly slaughtered for The Cause.
Give Lee and his men credit for that much, at least. They had the courage of their convictions, while today's "rebel" has nothing but the fear of having to fend for himself.
What The Actual Fuck?
Just an aside, the Overlord has found himself in something of a strange predicament.
Having moved back to Sodom-on-The-Hudson from the bucolic vomitorium of Dixie, he must acquire a new New York driver's license and register his vehicle in this state. Not too much of a problem, one would think.
New York State, naturally, requires proof of insurance before issuing a registration; I have that covered, but here's the problem.
My insurance was purchased in North Carolina. For the very reasonable rate of around $170 a month, I get liability insurance, collision insurance and roadside assistance anytime I need it. When I asked my insurer if I could simply transfer the policy to New York, I was told that the price would increase by 120%.
At first, I believed this was because New York being New Yorkistan, naturally, I could expect to pay more.
Imagine my surprise when I was told the price doubles not because of location but because the Overlord is debt free, hasn't had a loan in 40 years and hasn't used a credit card in over 20 years. This means that, as far as the credit rating agencies are concerned, I have no credit history to speak of.
Forty years of faithfully paying bills, being careful financially after having also learned the lessons of NOT being careful financially, and I'm being punished because I DON'T owe anyone any money?
So, to rectify this wholly unjust situation, I will be taking a series of "credit builder loans" that I will pay back almost immediately (which I'm told has it's own risks re: credit ratings) just to prove I'm a good credit risk, just to get a lower car insurance rate.
And this is the same rate across all of the insurers I've spoken to. Incidentally, it is also the same rate applied to those in the "Assigned Risk" category, despite having a 40 year record of driving without a ticket or accident to my name.
In the meantime, I will have to eat the increase (which, incidentally, does NOT include collision and roadside assistance: this is straight liability insurance) just to register my vehicle and have the privilege of having a New York State drivers license which I already had before I moved out of state.
Someone please tell me how this makes sense? Can anyone tell me this is legal?
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