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Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
Mon Oct 31, 2022, 09:22 PM Oct 2022

Hmmmmm...This is interesting "It's beginning to feel like the Confederacy

was never actually defeated. It just became Rebranded under a new name and richer over the last 100 years💭💭💭"

https://ibb.co/5TcDJnZ

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Hmmmmm...This is interesting "It's beginning to feel like the Confederacy (Original Post) Heather MC Oct 2022 OP
I have often contended that the South won the Civil War SCantiGOP Oct 2022 #1
Yes. I think the same thing. Irish_Dem Oct 2022 #2
And half of the Confederates SCantiGOP Nov 2022 #3
The war the autocracies are waging will no longer have borders. Irish_Dem Nov 2022 #4

SCantiGOP

(14,608 posts)
1. I have often contended that the South won the Civil War
Mon Oct 31, 2022, 09:59 PM
Oct 2022

It just took 100 years.
By the 1960's the Democrats were in power, and their dominance would not have been possible without the 'Solid South,' and a majority of House and Senate committees were led by Southerners.
The way the South 'won' was by using the Seniority system that existed in the Senate. They kept returning the same old segregationists, and before long they were in position to dominate the committees, which was where most of the real work was done.
On the House side, you had Mendall Rivers who served in the House for 30 years, the last 3 terms as head of the Armed Services Committee. By the time he died in office, there were so many military facilities in SC (Charleston had an Air Force base, a submarine base and a major naval yard for ship maintenance, while the largest Army and Marine training bases were also in SC) that the joke was that if SC seceded from the US again, it would be a military standoff.

Irish_Dem

(76,190 posts)
2. Yes. I think the same thing.
Mon Oct 31, 2022, 11:55 PM
Oct 2022

The South has now won the US Civil War.

They never really surrendered, they never gave up.

Irish_Dem

(76,190 posts)
4. The war the autocracies are waging will no longer have borders.
Tue Nov 1, 2022, 04:05 PM
Nov 2022

Last edited Tue Nov 1, 2022, 09:27 PM - Edit history (1)

Across the globe they wage war with no boundary, loyalties or values.
It will not be geography, but philosophy.

The only goals are total and permanent power and control.
And access to all financial resources.

GOP, Russia, China, Iran, Saudi.

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