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    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    George Orwell

    “Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”
    Winston S. Churchill

    In our ceaseless struggle against the seemingly overwhelming forces of Cultural Marxism, political correctness, identity politics, and historical “presentism”, I believe we have great allies in an unlikely pair of 20
    th
    century Englishmen. Eric Blair, whose
    nom de plume
    was George Orwell, so despised totalitarianism that his pen name now applies to the mindless miseries that have been created by the demagogues of right and left.

    And without Winston Churchill, we all would likely live in a very different and dystopian world, an “Orwellian” world.

    For those of us who are daily being falsely attacked asracists and smeared as bigots by a cabal of leftist academics, politicians, andjournalists, the words of those who have fought these fights before are acomfort and a blessing.
    Quite simply, we are up against it. Those whose profession it is to vilify the South and Southern culture and heritage have surrounded us with their perfidious propaganda. They have enormous resources. They have a national media which is almost entirely “woke” with the maxims of the radical left. They have hundreds of millions of dollars. (The disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center alone has an endowment of$477,000,000.) Our opponents control the entire apparatus of the national Democratic Party. They seemingly have the vast majority of academia. And of course they have long had the active support of the Hollywood film industry, whose power and influence is a major determinant in American opinion.

    If one believed what is being taught in our schools, read inour newspapers and seen on our televisions and at movie theatres, one wouldhave to believe that those of us who dissent from this conventional wisdom are indeed vile and scabrousreactionaries to all that is good and decent. And that, of course, is exactlywhat they want you to believe.

    But, and it’s a huge BUT, those who propagate this fiction are not, by a long shot, in the majority. Serious polling shows that the nation is divided in almost equal numbers about all of our social and political issues. It is obvious that the United States is politically polarized between “urban” and “heartland” viewpoints. Yet, although the “heartland” has electoral clout, as was witnessed in the last Presidential election, it has no influence on the national “narrative”. And with the notable exception of FoxTV, only one viewpoint is being force fed to our citizenry.

    Our story, about who we are and what we believe, is being buriedby the power of urban Interests. In fact, it is not just buried, but presentedas something dark, with hateful and dangerous intent. We are being defined,brothers and sisters, by people who don’t know us and who really don’t want toknow us.

    But we certainly do have the wonderful right to tell them what they don’t want to hear. Here are just a few things they don’t want to hear, right off the top of my head and in no particular order of importance:

    They don’t want to hear that American slavery was a Northernenterprise from beginning to end. They don’t want to hear that the EmancipationProclamation was a cynical political move to influence Britain and France. Theydon’t want to hear that the worst race riots in our history have been in theNorth. They don’t want to hear that slavery existed in all of the colonies and inall of our original States. They don’t want to hear about Lincoln’s belief thatblack folks and white folks could not co-exist and that blacks should be deportedto colonies elsewhere. They don’t want to comprehend Lincoln’s words in hisfirst Inaugural Address, when he said that slavery was Constitutionally legal,and that the states should pass the Corwin Amendment to make it perpetuallyprotected by the Constitution. They don’t want to hear that 12 American Presidentsowned slaves, as did patriots like Benjamin Franklin and John Hancock. Theydon’t want to hear that hundreds of blacks owned black slaves. They don’t wantto believe that black Southerners fought for the Confederacy. They don’t wantto see the War Between the States as a terrible event that should have andcould have been avoided. They don’t want to believe that Lincoln could havewithheld the reinforcement of Ft. Sumter and extended diplomatic overtures tosave the Nation. They don’t want to hear that Reconstruction was a vindictivepunishment that hobbled the South and set the nation back. (There was no“Marshall Plan for Dixie.) They do not want to hear that the American Revolutionwas won in the South, or that seven of our first ten Presidents wereSoutherners. They don’t want to hear that the current wave of cultural Marxismwith its wave of attacks against Southern culture and legacy are doing veryreal damage to the hard won progress towards racial equality and understandingthat has been made in the last five decades.

    They don’t want to hear that our nation is fed up with “snowflakes”,“social justice warriors” and upper class “victims” of whatever the fashionable“oppression” is. They don’t want toacknowledge that the media has been complicit in censoring voices ofdissent. (Or to accept that the samemedia has been complicit in the endless and omnipresent flow of sleazy “adult” entertainmentavailable to any child of any age.)

    They don’t want to hear that there is an orderly process ofimmigration into our nation which has worked well for a very long time. They don’twant to hear that somewhere on this Earth an American in uniform is injeopardy, risking his or her life for our right to speak freely like this.

    There is a lot that they don’t want to hear. So we mustcontinue to raise our voices to the rooftops and press our cause at everychance. We are Southerners. We are of all colors and religions and ages. And we
    will
    be heard.

    “Never, give in! Never give in! Never, never, never… In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!”
    Sir Winston Churchill
    The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell.

    ''... I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people...are a safeguard to the continuance of a free government...whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast Republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.''- Gen. Robert E. Lee

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    More things "they" don't want to hear:

    Abortion is murder.

    Gun ownership actually reduces crime.

    Mass murders in schools is due to the break up of the family - missing fathers.

    No matter how many things you ban, you will never ban evil.

    Once you use a word to infinitum (racist, Hitler, Nazi) it looses it's strength, and value.

    People have a protected right to a different opinion (free speech)

    The less government is involved in your everyday life, the freer you are.

    It's not the governments job to take care of people. (welfare - it's the churches)

    Mandating things people can't afford, will crash an economy (medicare for all, you pay for it with your taxes to name one, 900.00 phones is another, that's coming, retro fitting all buildings with solar)

    The world will not end in 12, 11, 10 years. (and yes if Miami is underwater due to raising sea levels, so will Martha's Vineyard even though it's 2000 miles away)

    Electric powered cars use coal fired power plants to recharge.

    You won't make millions with a degree in aroma therapy, or pet photography.

    Being cool in HS or college doesn't mean you can get a job. Especially a job making millions.

    More to be added later
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    Yeah, the South seceded because the South wanted to free their slaves, but the Evil North wanted them to keep their slaves.
    Another one of those things they don't want you to hear.
    Satire
    Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium.
    I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

    “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bezukhov View Post
    Yeah, the South seceded because the South wanted to free their slaves, but the Evil North wanted them to keep their slaves.
    Another one of those things they don't want you to hear.
    Satire
    Another thing they don't want to hear:

    Rhode Island didn't want to be a part of the Union to start with. But they didn't get invaded by the other 11.

    In 1787 a convention met to amend the Articles of Confederation, and ended by proposing a new form of government which was to be submitted to the States, and, if ratified by nine of them, should go into effect as between the States so ratifying it. If only nine consented, what was to become of the other four, and what of the plighted faith to a perpetual union? We are not left to speculation with different numbers; the case did actually occur. Eleven States ratified; two refused: what was to be done?
    The expedient of raising an army to coerce North Carolina and
    Rhode Island
    into an acceptance of the Constitution or new form of government seems not to have occurred to any one of that day,
    and the situation was especially embarrassing because the thirteenth article provided that the union should be perpetual, and that no alteration should be made in any of the Articles of Confederation, “unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislature of every State.”
    Not satire.
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