August is the month when America celebrates stupidity and I have been avoiding the celebrations. Sure, the stupidity of Americans is on display almost any given day. After all, we live in a Nation where 25% of the folks do not believe in evolution and also, too think that President Obama was not born in the United States. Almost as many also think that he is a secret Moooslim. The stupidity of these Twenty-five percenters is astounding, but not as astounding as the stupidity that lets these dumbshits define the political issues of the day.
And yet, here we are.
Over in Washington a vanguard of fools came to town to hear the drivel of the latest iteration of the bastard union of Know-Nothing Nativism with Confederate piety, racism and morality–all wrapped up in a patina of Jesus to make the appeals to hate, ignorance and fear seem blessed by the Divine. The name of the rally was Key: “Restoration Of Honor”.
The Confederacy and the Confederate movement has always been very concerned with ‘Honor’ and its restoration and when seen as a neo-Confederate rally the gathering today make sense as a fitting endpoint to a month celebrating stupidity in America. It makes sense that these neo-Confederates would hold this rally on the Anniversary and at the site of MLK’s famous speech 47 years ago. And it is predictable that these shifty fuckers would claim ownership of King and his movement. After all, Confederates have been trying to reclaim their right to own people, their labor and their ideas for more than two hundred years.
“Honor” is a wingnut code word that defines the term in the same way that the old Confederacy defined the term. And when paired with the word “restoration” it is a call for a return to an American rooted in the White Supremacy of the Confederacy. This Neo-Confederate movement has–ironically–captured the political party that was formed over a 150 years ago to destroy Confederate thinking and slavery. History is filled with funny twists of fate.
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