Do as You're Told...Or Else

Don’t overthink this, because it’s quite simple, really. When Democrats’ national position depended on unwavering support from “the Solid South,” we got lots of pro-Southern propaganda: the Lost Cause, Gone With The Wind, Disneyfied Uncle Remus, etc. As a vital Democrat constituency group, southerners, even practical neo-Confederates, were absolved of all sins as long as they stayed in line.

Now the South isn’t “solid” anymore — or, more accurate, it’s becoming pretty solidly Republican — so rather than receiving cultural dispensations, it now gets targeted for cultural warfare.

That’s all that’s going on here. It has nothing to do with morality or decency, any more than it did a half-century or more ago when the national cultural machine took a different position. It’s just politics by other means. The rest is just noise.

Is this analysis highly cynical? Yes. But still probably not cynical enough.

It is what they do...

Lie. He's a gun prohibitionist. Lying is their stock in trade.

The VA State Police basically called Gov. Terry McAuliffe a liar

Where Does it Stop?

Chicago pastor: It’s time to take George Washington’s name off of public parks

Ending ‘White Supremacy’ Requires Erasure of Washington and Jefferson, Says Antifa Supporter

Let's Get Rid Of Mount Rushmore

Black Lives Matter Activists Float Criminalization of Confederate Imagery

Exactly!

Can’t Both Sides Lose?

I'm damn well tired of the Left telling me I must except culpability for the actions of a few racist assholes while they refuse to except responsibility for their own racist assholes. I'm part of neither.

Better yet...

...Piers Morgan can go back to the UK and leave our freedoms alone. Except....they don't want him either.

Piers Morgan: Time to Limit Second and First Amendments

Where Does it Stop?

Leftist Activists Demand New York Museum Take Down Statue of ‘Racist’ Theodore Roosevelt

I have no printable words for this bullshit

And ISIS has arrived to the US.

Yep

And no, to whom it may concern, a region not wanting their past or their regional heroes erased to appease a vocal minority does NOT make them white supremacists. This idiotic changing of names, removing of statues and erasing people from history is NOT the work of a free society. It is wholly Stalinist and is letting the rest of the world know you by your fruits as it were. I have nothing invested in the ACW, except for having studied it enough to know it was more complex than most people think, and I’m only “southern” by fiat of my friends, but even I get outraged at the erasing of the past of the region. And you know damn well they’re coming for Jefferson and Washington next. At which point they’ll have to go through me. It’s the left’s old bullshit of removing the giants of the past so their diminutive stature looks tall. Pfui - Sarah Hoyt

They keep searching for relevance...

...and landing on their asses.

Everytown Calls for More Gun Control Following Charlottesville Car Attack

Heh

Here's a Question

You can’t stop some crazy guy who came here from Ohio and used his car as a weapon. He is a terrorist. - Governor Terry McAuliffe

Would he have used his car as a weapon if the police had done their job and stepped in before the violence broke out? Here's another thought. McAuliffe knew this event was planned. Based on the Left's response in the recent past to such, why the hell didn't he have more police and/or National Guardsmen standing by? Do you think maybe he was looking for his own Reichstag moment. It's not like the Left hasn't been trying to use mass shootings for that purpose for years. Just saying...

Now, as to Nazis and Antifa/Communists fighting it out? Can't say I care one bit as long innocent bystanders don't get caught up in it.

Bill Whittle: SJW, SURPRISE!

Blinders

Heh!

I'm just going to say it. #NRA & @DLoesch are quickly becoming domestic security threats under President Trump. We can't ignore that.

— Kathleen Rice (@RepKathleenRice) August 11, 2017

Number of #NRA gatherings that have had to be broken up by riot police this decade: 0. https://t.co/BOnN0zjbkd

— Tamara K. (@TamSlick) August 11, 2017