The \u201clogic\u201d, such as it is, behind this push to ban the flag seems to be this:<\/p>\n
Nazis are evil, and we (liberals) banned their flag, and everyone liked us for it. Even Germans! So let\u2019s do it all over again and ban the Confederate flag too! People will like us.<\/p>\n
Yes, I believe this is what they\u2019re thinking. As impossibly simple and wrong as this is, I believe that these are their thoughts, in a nutshell.<\/p>\n
The issue with this logic is that it doesn\u2019t jibe, at all, with history. Germans didn\u2019t<\/i> want their flag banned. Of course they didn\u2019t. Immediately after the German surrender, resistance to the US merely went underground.<\/p>\n
They only reason that the German resistance to the US ended is because of mass bribery (the \u201cMarshall Plan\u201d). In short, we gave Germany an enormous amount of money- many billions of dollars (in 1950\u2019s money, back when dollars meant actual gold) to hush up and accept US dominance quietly. <\/p>\n
So the dominance was accepted, and it continued to be accepted long afterwards because of money. The Germans have now the most advanced and industrialized society in the history of the world. So yes, they\u2019ve gone along with the plan. But primarily for reasons of self- interest and profit, of course.<\/p>\n
There are no such reasons for conservative whites to go along with the regime\u2019s plan to ban their symbols. There is in fact no reason whatsoever for them to \u201cwork with\u201d any of this. So why should they? They won\u2019t, of course. Self- interest trumps all. It\u2019s human nature.<\/p>\n
The problem, as I see it, is that liberals seem to have bought into their own hype. The really actually see themselves as being \u201cabove\u201d such petty concerns. They\u2019re not, and that\u2019s not how others see them, but they\u2019ve convinced themselves that those opinions don\u2019t matter. Or their heads are so far up their asses that they don\u2019t even realize how many people truly disagree with them.<\/p>\n
Back to what I was saying earlier- the harsh truth is that money is also the reason that Southerners embraced the North. They stopped their resistance for the benefits of free economic development, and little else. For centuries, they got to bask in the glow of being in the richest nation in history. So of course they stopped resistance! Who wouldn\u2019t in those circumstances?<\/p>\n
So these things were more of an even exchange. Germany repudiated its past and got what it wanted, the South did the same got what it (really) wanted, and the rest was history.<\/p>\n
But this new push to ban the Confederate flag\u2026 is no exchange. It\u2019s pure bullying. It\u2019s wrong, and it must and will inevitably fail.<\/p>\n
Such is the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The \u201clogic\u201d, such as it is, behind this push to ban the flag seems to be this: Nazis are evil, and we (liberals) banned their flag, and everyone liked us for it. Even Germans! So let\u2019s do it all over again and ban the Confederate flag too! People will like us. Yes, I believe this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}