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If the Confederacy = KKK = BLM = Socialism = Antifa = Alt-Right = Nazi, then you’re part of the problem in America. If you dig into the history of these groups you will find most are as different as day and night. It may not be your fault. You have been intentionally misinformed to make it easier to exploit your ignorance.
The problem lies within an inability or lack of desire to learn about the history of any of the organizations, the ideas they are related to and how they relate to American history. Intellectual rigor is no longer applauded in this country. It is much easier to find someone using rhetoric you agree with rather than to do the research yourself and then based in information make decisions which are informed.
Most of the people who are lazily equating these groups have been misled by pseudo-news sources whose paid mission is to confuse, conflate and misinform so that the powers who pay for those stations can take advantage of the confusion to further exploit and provide cover for economic re-assignment taking place through public policy manipulations.
People are vulnerable to propaganda and don’t even realize it. Every day, they turn on their television they are made more vulnerable, less able to determine what is real and what isn’t, where the truth lies and where falsehood dwells.
They are living in a constructed reality which has NOTHING to do with what is real and they lack the critical thinking ability required to discern truth from falsehood. In most cases, news sources aren’t even dealing in facts any longer. Worse, fatigued by the constant media assault, most opt to not be bothered, figuring they can’t make it any better and it’s best for them if they just keep their head down. They figure: What can I do anyway?
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The only antidote to this is people teaching and learning but we have made education prohibitively expensive and focused our attentions on teaching people how to get rich rather than how to become more learned and intellectually responsible to use their knowledge to improve the world. People are now more interested in becoming rich, rather than enriching themselves intellectually, culturally, artistically, socially, and improving their communities.
Until there is a commitment by our society to make education REAL, viable, affordable and meaningful, nothing will change for long. Every progressive viewpoint we have taken in the last twenty years is being reversed right now, by people who know exactly what they are doing and are emboldened to continue because they have the media, corporate power and governmental policy holders in their pockets.
We can be mislead and misinformed because we don’t have the willingness to hear the truth because it is unpleasant. Until we thicken our skins and acknowledge much of the wrong in this society stems from our failure to recognize the truth, we will stay embroiled in battles which have no real meaning, while society decays underneath our feet.
The issues with the Confederacy and its true meanings are a fine example. The leaders of the Confederacy had an opinion and since it was their war, why don’t people look to history and read their words. I did. I no longer have any doubt what the Confederacy believed, no matter what other mouth-breathers trying to hide their truths say today. Read the words yourself and then you too will know the truth.
The Cornerstone Speech by the Confederate Vice President makes clear their stance on the war and why it had to be fought. Slavery was the primary tenet and don’t let anyone try to convince you otherwise. Share it with anyone who wants to say heritage and the Confederacy go together. Heritage is Mom’s peach cobbler. Proposing genocide is a violent political stance. They are not equal.
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