tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2379162432703596247.post3711884162045447487..comments2023-08-19T04:49:33.405-05:00Comments on Confiteri: A Call to ActionWalt Garlingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06960981300770685320noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2379162432703596247.post-6252645691655445462012-01-06T12:30:26.032-06:002012-01-06T12:30:26.032-06:00It is very good that the poet, Henry Timrod, is no...It is very good that the poet, Henry Timrod, is not alive today to experience the evil which the enemy has wrought on his sweet Carolina: corporatism, consumerism, statism and a loss of republican (Please do not confuse with the party!) virtues: cardinal, capital and Christian, save for a remnant found in enclaves, strongholds, nooks and crannies like the Old Narnians. I foresee no Prince Caspian or coming of the high kings for Timrod's Carolina. In the upcoming political primary, as one watches the currently trending polls, one notes that the enemy of Carolina and indeed the entire South is now the preferred party. The candidates of that party, with the possible exception of one, represent corporatism, consumerism and statism, with the state's attendant warfare and welfare.<br /><br />Of course, the post-Wilsonian Democratic Party exploited the loyalty of the South up until 1972 and then totally abandoned the South as the party moved inexorably into the liberal with its leftist agendas. The South, responding to the vacuum, then abandoned itself and embraced the Republican Party, the party of bankers, stock jobbers and paper aristocracy, a party which since Nixon's "Southern strategy" has also exploited the virtues of the South, namely our loyalty and our dedication to things martial, getting our votes in election after election while working to hollow out our traditions, customs and habits, those things which make us who we are.<br /><br />If one may play on words, the last lines which Timrod indited, indict us, the sons; for it would seem that the future was ill left to us by our courageous antecedents. We have not done well with our inheritance.Robert M. Petershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09767188773037350921noreply@blogger.com