The Myth Of The Lost And Found Trump Cause
For people who have the knowledge and understanding born from actually having looked into it, there is an acknowledgement that the South succeeded , for about a hundred years, in rewriting the history and outcome of the Civil War in a way that made the Confederate cause much more understandable and "reasonable". This effort, which encompassed everything from the construction of noble statues and monuments to Confederate figures to the wording in childrens school text books that presented the South at odds with the federal government, not over the slaveholders of that region wanting to continue to own human beings, but rather presented as a matter of "states rights".
The truth is that everyone alive when the southern states seceded knew that it was done over the fate of slavery. It was written about in the newspapers of the day, including ones in the south, and it was talked about in parlors and on streetcorners. It was predicted before Lincoln took office that the south would secede if he won the 1860 election, for one reason, Lincoln and the Republican Party at the time were known to be anti-slavery. And then the individual states documents of secession laid out the importance of slavery to the south, and those secessionist states even sent emissaries to border states trying to get them to secede in order to preserve slavery.
Up until today there are groups like the League Of South and Sons Of The Confederacy that seek to keep The Lost Cause alive, and there are still Confederate Heritage days and months in a few southern states, and Jefferson Davis home is maintained as a museum to the Confederate president.
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Since 2015 our country has been subjected to the campaign devoted to the Lost Cause mythology of Donald Trump, a mythology that has become increasing worse since the 2020 election. The most notable element of this, although by no means the only element , is the increasingly dishonest propaganda effort to solidify the belief that the election was stolen from Trump, that he and the J6 rioters were the true victims, that he has been subjected to unjust "lawfare", and that he deserves to wield unprecedented power presently.
Now we have a governmental apparatus that lies on his behalf, bows before him unashamedly, and treats him like a potentate. The latest corruption is that he will accept a super luxury airplane, as a gift from a foreign country, Qatar, to use as the new Air Force One. In days this incredible corruption will have been normalized, after all isnt the real Air Force One "old". Why shouldnt an authoritarian monarchy like Qatar personally gift the US president? The media will roll over or ignore it, and the myth of the triumphant overcoming of his persecution will grow and grow.
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I think the similarities between The Lost Cause Myth (which largely worked for over 100 years) , and the myth of Trumps current suitability for office are undeniable.
What I would call a piss-poor analogy. An analogy requires something in common.
what I want trumpski to lose is a very short list ...
Just think, if the Dems had anyone who was "fit and suitable" to be president they wouldn't have Trump to worry and fuss and complain about for the next three and a half years
You would think they, the progressives and their ilk, would have learned something from their total rejection by a diverse and informed electorate.
But no, the left continues to stand for all the wrong things and lost causes that led to their defeat in the first place. They may never have any political power or influence ever again.
So it's the fault of the Democrats, that Trump won his GOP primary and squeaked past Harris ?
THe Republicans had nothing to do with it ? They couldn't have impeached him twice ? They couldn't have called him out for all the OBVIOUS FCKN VIOLATIONS he had committed with stealing of documents, inviting his flockers to "it will be Wild" January 6th carnival games that had ALL of the House and Senate scared for their very lives as Trump did NOTHING for three fckn hours?
Those damn Democrats forced the good Repubs to vote for a real POS, damn them Democrats !
The Lost Cause was quite real; it was no myth. The Lost Cause of Southern independence, through secession, arose from the politics of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party had been created three decades before the Civil War to politically protect and expand the institution of chattel slavery in the United States. The rest of the country was growing while the South was being left behind. Slavery disenfranchised too much of the Southern population to allow the Democratic Party to keep political power. The Civil War did not end the Democratic Party. In fact, the Democratic Party was staunchly opposed to any civil rights for 100 years following the end of the Lost Cause of secession. The Lost Cause South remained solidly Democratic until the 1970s.
The mythology of the Lost Cause was created by the Democratic Party to remain politically competitive following the abolition of slavery. It is quite telling that, 200 years later, the Democratic Party cannot remain politically relevant without the politics of slavery to hold together a base of support. The Democratic Party has always been the party of slavery and would not be relevant in American politics without the unifying politics of slavery.
Theres a lot more where these come from.
Yes, the Democratic Party's myth of the Lost Cause transformed the Confederate Virginia battle flag into the rebel flag. The rebel flag, as a symbol of resistance and dissent, owes its mythologized history to the politics of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party made the rebel flag an acceptable symbol of resistance, dissent, and protest.
Nonsense. Conservatives were the supporters of slavery and modern day conservatives include the neo confederates.
Then why do Democrats spend an inordinate amount of time talking about slavery 160 years after abolition? Why is the Democratic Party in power where race riots happen, where de facto segregation is in place, where institutional discrimination is rampant?
Slavery is as deeply embedded in the politics of the Democratic Party as ever. Slavery is still being used by the Democratic Party to unify a political base of support.
Not a slave owner. Not a monument to slavery. This is the Freedman's Memorial at Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.
You see this kind of thing all over Arkansas. Anybody that tries to say it doesn't exist has never spent any time in the south