2013-09-29

I never saw the American Right as different configurations, entities and indeed different versions.

That is, until I read this -

http://consortiumnews.com/2013/09/28/the-four-eras-of-the-american-right/

  1. the pre-Confederate period from 1787 to 1860 when slave owners first opposed and then sought to constrain the Constitution, viewing it as a threat to slavery; 
  2. the actual Confederacy from 1861 to 1865 when the South took up arms against the Constitution in defense of slavery; 
  3. the post-Confederate era from 1866 to the 1960s when white racists violently thwarted constitutional protections for blacks; 
  4. and the neo-Confederate era from 1969 to today when these racists jumped to the Republican Party in an attempt to extend white supremacy behind various code words and subterfuges.

It seems so obvious - and yet it's almost never discussed in society at pretty much any and every level.

Also note the connection between the American Right and the Global Confederation - the connection between the political ideology and the need to control resources to benefit the few were long established here -

"Because of political mistakes by the Federalists and Jefferson’s success in portraying himself as an advocate of simple farmers (when he was really the avatar for the plantation owners), Jefferson and his Democratic-Republicans prevailed in the election of 1800, clearing the way for a more constrained interpretation of the Constitution and a 24-year Virginia Dynasty over the White House with Jefferson, Madison and James Monroe, all slaveholders.

By the time the Virginia Dynasty ended, slavery had spread to newer states to the west and was more deeply entrenched than ever before. Indeed, not only was Virginia’s agriculture tied to the institution of slavery but after the Constitution banned the importation of slaves in 1808, Virginia developed a new industry, the breeding of slaves for sale to new states in the west."


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