Repurposing For The Next Rebellion

By pointing out the racism attached to the Southern Democrat secessionist flag and its inappropriateness for official use, sane minds have enabled and triggered the SJWs inadvertently. The SJWs have leapt into action to demand not just the banning of the flag altogether including sales to private individuals, but have expanded their war to include all things Civil War, right down to movies in which the war is featured. As is pointed out by some commentators, this has diluted the Leftist push for gun control by swamping the conversation with loony hysteria.

The result possibly will be two fold; first, the Left will find its insane stepchild to have taken over and left the Left facedown in the dust; second, the SJWs will have iconized a flag to be used for rebellion against both the SJWs and the Left in general. Here's a candidate now:

This is a specific response to the mindless, panicky, stampeding Class Warfare; it combines two rebellious American traditional flags into an all new, single meaning, devoid of both King George and Slavery, and now focused on addressing specifically the anti-totalitarian movement which seems to be gaining traction. I don't think the flag will actually catch on. But I have hopes for the movement.

Democrats and the Confederate Flag

Democrats use Confederate flag flap in South Carolina to solicit donations

"National Democrats tried Monday evening to raise funds off the South Carolina Confederate flag flap.

In a blast email sent after 7 p.m. Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said the issue of the Confederate flag, which zoomed to the front of national consciousness after a white supremacist was charged with nine counts of murder after a shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, was “not over yet.”

The email says Gov. Nikki Haley’s announcement is not legislation and asked recipients to answer the question, “Should South Carolina take down the Confederate flag from its state Capitol?”

It reads, “41,338 people have recorded their answer — but we still haven’t heard from you,” it asks the subscriber by name.

A person cannot answer the survey question at the DCCC site without putting in an email address, which gives the DCCC the ability to solicit contributions.

Once the person answers the question and provides an address, the page reads, “Thanks for taking the instant poll today! Now take the next step: Donate $3 or more to support Democrats, and we’ll send you this free ‘Yes. I Voted Obama’ sticker in the mail!”

There is no question about the Confederate Flag and its Democrat linkage.

The Confederate Flag

Why state governments should take down the Confederate flag

"It is long past time that state governments stopped displaying the Confederate flag, and otherwise honoring Confederate leaders. We should not honor people whose main claim to fame was waging a bloody war for the purpose of perpetuating and extending the evil institution of slavery. Some still deny that this was the motivation for Confederate secession. But overwhelming evidence proves otherwise. You don’t have to take my word for the proposition that slavery was at the root of the Confederate agenda, or even the word of John Stuart Mill. Take that of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, vice president Alexander Stephens (who called slavery “the cornerstone” of the Confederacy), and southern states’ own official statements outlining their reasons for seceding."
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Back in the day, I was taught that the Civil war was about "states' rights", not really about slavery. I now know that this was false, that the Civil War was fought about the states' right specifically to perpetuate slavery; that was the position and the entire raison d'etre for the creation of the Democrat party in 1832 and the subsequent secession of the Democrat South. The entire nation was embroiled and bludgeoned horribly by the Democrats' insistence on racial suppression. States' Rights were just the excuse being used to preserve the slavery of blacks.

So my original neutral position on the Confederate flag has changed: I now fully oppose it being flown in any official capacity, or being used within another flag in an official capacity. The flag actually is specifically racist, being a symbol which represents, not states' rights from a federalist, 10th amendment sort of manner, but a symbol which represents official forced suppression of a race. As with all speech, the Confederate flag must not be abolished from the expression private opinion despite its onerous and obvious meaning. But its official use should be stopped.

There needs to be a better symbol for States' Rights, because it is not States' Rights which are at issue with the Confederate flag: States' Rights are guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. But the Confederate flag is not the proper symbol for that.

UPDATE: