They\u2019ve lost contact with reality. They\u2019re acting out fantasies.<\/p>\n
In no way are any of these attempts to ban the Confederate flag going to destroy any lingering pro-Confederate feelings, anywhere. The Confederate flag isn\u2019t a potent symbol today, 150 years after the Civil War, because of sales on eBay or Amazon. Or because of games in the Apple App Store. Or because of some old statues. <\/p>\n
Those statues exist not because the Confederacy is politically relevant today, but in response to the pro-Confederate feelings that existed when they were made, and that will still exist today, whether those statues are here or not.<\/p>\n
All of these attempts to \u201cban\u201d the Confederate flag, to push it off the stage of history, can\u2019t possibly work, and anyone who really tries to think about this would understand it.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t believe me? Try ordering a Confederate flag now<\/i>. You can\u2019t. They\u2019re on backorder everywhere. And the conservative net is filled with people, Non-Southerners mostly, who are complaining that they can\u2019t find a flag of their own in stock, anywhere, now that they want one themselves.<\/p>\n
This whole Confederate flag controversy reminds me of how liberals\u2019 \u201cgun control\u201d pushes always horribly backfire. They. Just. Don\u2019t. Get it.<\/p>\n
The flag isn\u2019t going away, and their attempts to ignore the concerns of others and force the issue have only enshrined it as a permanent symbol of outlaw badassery. This is going to blow up badly in their faces (if it already hasn\u2019t).<\/p>\n
They\u2019re nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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