Certainly you are aware of the simple fact that the parties have changed ‘just a bit’ over the course of the last century and a half? Hmm? As for “treasonous tendencies,” perhaps you would care to quote the specific clause of the Constitution that prohibits secession. When you can’t locate that clause, perhaps you can find time to read the Tenth Amendment.
People who ignore the Constitution, but insist on “calling themselves Republicans and patriots [are] such a joke”...
The best contribution by southerners in the 1860s was service by 300,000 of them in the United States Army and Navy to defend the country against rebels. I honor all Americans who fought for the United States of America and criticize all Americans who fought against it.
I thought those who served in the “Army and Navy” swore oaths to defend the Constitution, not “the country.” Am I incorrect? I “honor all Americans who fought for” their Constitutional rights...
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Every Confederate rebel was a Democrat.
I invite you to prove it. Have fun – we certainly will, while watching you!
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Republicans veneratiing Democrat-rebels of the Confederacy causes immense harm to the Grand Old Party.
In fact, “Republicans veneratiing” the ideals of Confederate constitutionalists are one of the only forces preventing the Republican Party from becoming an exact duplicate of our current Democrat party. As one non-revisionist author recently noted:
"...(I)t is misleading to date the tradition of American liberty from the late 1780s, since the Constitution of the United States was in fact only the culmination of generations of practical self-government on the part of Americans. At the time of the framing of the Constitution and the formation of an allegedly "more perfect union," the colonists had precedents for challenging the powers of a confederation, as in the case of the Confederation of New England, for rejecting a confederation, as in the case of the Albany Plan of Union, and for bringing down a confederation by force, as in the case of the Dominion of New England. It can hardly be surprising, therefore, to learn that at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, three states [Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island] in acceding to the new confederation, explicitly reserved the right to withdraw from the Union at such time as it should become oppressive. In so doing they were only exercising the vigilance and libertarian principle that had animated the American experience during the colonial period.
"Thus when a union of polities becomes an end in itself, as it has in the minds of some since the days of Daniel Webster but certainly since Abraham Lincoln's revolution, the repudiation and indeed perversion of the colonial ideal is complete. Yet today, even self-proclaimed conservatives, whom one might expect to be engaged in preserving their country's tradition of liberty, cavalierly decry attachment to the principles embodied in the Confederate flag as "treason," even though the value of self-government vindicated by the South had been insisted upon since colonial times. The real traitors, however, are not the Confederates, but those who betray the real American tradition of independence and self-government in favor of the principle of unlimited submission to central authority. This is what the colonial period has to teach us."
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Southerners who ignore their centurys old Democrat heritage and insist on calling themselves the loyal base of the Republican party are pretty funny also...