Confederate History month symbolizes continued culture war
Governor McConnell's proclamation stirs re-engagement of social civil war in America. by Mark Vogl
(conservative)
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Can the government of the United States go too far? Is there any way, besides taxation's effect on the economy, to know if and when the federal government of the United States has gone too far in stripping away the individual liberty of its citizens?
The rhetorical volleys which have echoed across America about Governor McConnell's proclamation in support of Confederate History month clearly demonstrate the wide differences between Americans on the very broadest range of issues. The republic of Republics, created by our Founding Fathers, is no longer alive. The American Civil War did much more than preserves the Union and end slavery. It started the process by which the Herculean efforts of so many early American patriots to create a land of liberty were erased. Not just the independence of the thirteen independent colonies, but the independence and liberty of the individual citizen.
Alexis d'Tocqueville's observations about the struggle between liberty and equality were both accurate and prophetic. Material equality has risen to paramount importance, and through taxation, regulation, and the destruction of state sovereignty is virtually obliterating the liberties articulated in the Bill of Rights.
This is not the America Washington, Lee, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Madison and Mason intended. The Tenth Amendment, the guide to how America was to deal with questions yet asked, has been set aside. The federal government, through the US Supreme Court has decided what powers it will seize, and which ones it will leave to the states. These latter powers are few and temporary, because in the progressive view of the "living" Constitution, the Court can at any time revisit a question and arbitrarily change the foundational law of the?land, seizing power and expanding the role of government. Even the very foundations of our nation, "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness" are not immune as is demonstrated by the Court's decision to?forfeit the right to life to the innocent?unborn in Roe v. Wade.
Abortion is the modern day equivalent to the slavery of the past. It is another blemish on the character of the American nation.
America is not the nation we hoped it would be. And, it is as much "mom and pops" fault, as it is the fault of the powerful. Americans have been unable to live up to the responsibility of citizenship. Americans have not guarded their citizenship, but have allowed any transient the right to influence American policy, through the vote, as a lobbyist, as a special interest. We have not cherished the gift given to us by our Creator.
The grand experiment is in serious mortal danger. Our nation has drifted from the Bible, from its originating faith in Christ. Our nation allows our public airwaves to be used by Satan to spread immorality. Our opposition to the creation of a national church has been turned into separation of God from the American people.
When defining right from wrong, there is no other source more appropriate for the United States of America, than the Christian Bible. Yet, when Ethics in the American classroom is discussed, of the many sources quoted, the Bible is not one of them. Right and wrong is created from human experience and "knowledge," not divine inspiration.
And if the discussion of right and wrong in the classroom is absent the Bible, than can we be surprised that Freedom of Speech includes pornography? Can we be surprised that public prayer at high school football games is a crime!
The Culture War in America rages. It is not over. Sarah Palin is our hope. She rises from the masses. She is us. She is not manipulated by the wisdom of the Ivy League. She is the quintessential American, and she scares the heck out of the progressives whose arguments will collapse when placed under the light of reality. Her anchor is in American history and in living life on the frontier. Her successful efforts on behalf of the Alaskan people in negotiations with the oil companies are testimony not only to her intelligence but to her political acumen.
The fight rages on. We can be a better nation and better people. We can reclaim our inheritance as Americans.
Thank you Governor McConnell for recognizing the patriots of old Virginia. Thank you for having the courage to say that, though imperfect, the Confederates of Virginia and the South are worth remembering. No doubt, from their heavenly perch they watch with interest the results of Lincoln's victory.
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The "mom and pops" of this world outnumber the "powerful". I'm 23 and I am looking forward to undoing the mess that my elders either let happen or failed to suppress. I am to respect my elders, huh? Not in this world. I sympathize with your articles, although I'm not a Christian. I was raised in a loosely Christian home. My parents tried to instill their value system and I took in the parts pertaining to responsibility turning them on to Ron Paul in my first presidential election.
Keep writing your articles. I don't agree with some of what you have to say, however, I share and appreciate your conservative passion.
You fit in right in the rightist category: supporting economic liberty while not supporting personal freedoms. No abortion rights? Turning school into religious indoctrination? The Civil War was a culture war, between the "right" to own slaves and the freedom from slavery.
I do not see you anywhere near the libertarian category, you are more of a far-rightist/right-statist.
Mark, your comments are in line with history except for the one about Palin...she is part of the establishment, a veneer- not the real thing. We need real statesmen for role models.
to Matthew: please read "the Real Lincoln" and "the South was Right" for starters, to get a correct view of history. There are very few still uneducated enough to actually believe that the war between the states was over slavery.
Could someone please summarize how the "Civil War" was not over slavery? I would be happy to read the texts that farmernancy suggested but my other questions would be what, in your view, makes those texts superior from other texts and why are they an authority over other texts that have been written about the subject?
