63% of Mississippi GPOers would NOT support the Confederates? That’s a stunning result. Really.
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I’ve said it before. Time to give the South a do-over. Austin and New Orleans, maybe San Antonio, have to be self-governing trade and tourism zones like Hong Kong was. And no foreign aid! Let the new Confederacy get a taste of Individual Responsibility.
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Why on Earth we ever fought a Civil War to keep these ignorant crackers in the Union is beyond me. Memo to Gooberville: you won’t have to fight next time. You want to secede? Go right ahead. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
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They’d have to set up battery charging stations. Different type of difficulty.
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If the Democrats in D.C. had any brains or balls, Reid and Pelosi would introduce a joint resolution that openly repudiates and castigates the pro-Confederacy tilt among Mississippi Republicans. The purpose of such a move would be totally symbolic in a nakedly partisan way that would generate a great deal of attention, and none of it would be good for the Republican Party.
The advantages of introducing a well-crafted resolution accrue regardless of what the GOPers in Congress do. Boehner would very likely never allow such a resolution to come to a vote in the House, which would simply provide the Democratic Party with the opportunity to rightly and loudly accuse the Republican Party as a whole of sympathizing with seditionists and traitors within its own ranks, and more importantly, communicate this information to the minority members of its own base.
If, by some miracle, Republicans actually voted for such a measure, it would deepen the existing fissures between establishment Republicans and the teabaggers who are currently running the ideological show in the GOP.
Either way, it’s a win-win for the Democrats.
Democrats and progressives typically sniff condescendingly and dismiss this tack as a “meaningless stunt” or say “Democrats don’t do these sorts of things,” but in my opinion it’s high past time that Democrats get off their fucking high horse and learn how to play the political game to their own advantage.
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“Just some thoughts for the peckerwoods.”
“Thoughts” and “peckerwoods”… now that’s a non-sequitur.
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Sheridan was the guy that really made the point. We need Democrats like THAT.
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A neo-Confederacy / secessionist movement would benefit those of us in the Northeast / far West (the makers) and be a financial disaster for the the South (the takers).
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Why are these dumbazs polls even run? Wasting money. I’d hangup on someone if they polled me with these questions.
Once a loser, always a loser. Is that really the message these clowns want to be pushing?
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Well, if you ask them, the assumption is that, as they have oil and a quite decent agricultural base, they’d make out all right.
However, those assets would all end up in a very few Confederate pockets, for a lot of reasons, but the main one is that the South has historically been okay with selling the labor of the vast majority of its people as cheaply as possible–and those people are never going to get a piece of the pie.
This was most obvious when they owned people outright, but even now they make a point of seeing that corporations that want to screw every employee will be sheltered from unions, virtually any sort of worker protection laws, or enforcement of the few laws that do exist.
If the South were to break off again, they’d survive by market their cheap, cheap labor force–like China or prison labor, only without the social services or civil rights. They wouldn’t call it “slavery” or “indentured servitude” or “share-cropping,” but it would be along those lines.
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OK, normally I’m all for trolling conservatives, but this poll sounds like BS to me. What does it even mean to support the “Confederacy” if there were “another Civil War”? The Confederacy only existed from 1861-1865, and if there were another civil war it wouldn’t necessarily be about the same issues as before, and if there were another thing called the Confederacy it wouldn’t be the same entity as the one from before and could well have different policies. I can’t seem to find a link to the actual survey used by PPP, and I’m not going to waste any time looking at it, but unless the poll asked an actually meaningful question, this poll is useless.
Amazing. The confederacy lasted four years. Four years.
The ignorance, racism and idiocy of its adherents, it seems— will last forever.
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Well time for them to give up the monies they receive from the US Treasury. Our taxes are paying for THEM?
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This IS the GOP…everywhere.
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File this under D for duh, or C for Captain Obvious.
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…that’s about the same percentage that backed secession in 1861, isn’t ti?
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Frankly the thought of the South seceding from the Union is none to good. But what the secessionists desire is the very thing that makes them incredibly ignorant, a desire to rule their own nation built on a pipe dream of slavery, blue bloods and serfs, peons and lowlifes, that will form the basis of a feudal society.
Should this charade continue and the government allow it, we will need to remove any of those who don’t disapprove from public office and remove them from public participation for life. It will happen but what the outcome is will be determined by those of us who vote and vote regularly. Too often we don’t stop to think of the consequences of seditious and treasonous actions like this. Stop and think now, vote this November and help retain the cohesion of this “The Grand Experiment.”
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“If I owned Texas and Hell, I’d rent out Texas…and live in Hell.”
– Gen Philip Sheridan, Destroyer of Seditious Rebel Trash
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Wanna bet?
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