Reflections From a Murky Pond

If America couldn’t have expanded westward, would the Civil War happened? Would it have happened without that opportunity for a massive trade imbalanced based upon the divergent costs of labor under respectively slave-holding and purely freemen societies?

Prima facie, this seems to be useless musing but it truly isn’t. It may be a very important question.

Face facts, the Civil War wasn’t a war to free the Black slaves per se. Nobody of any consequence wanted those slaves freed and even the rank and file Abolitionists favored a fanciful deportation / repatriation strategy.

Both the Civil War and most of the serious problems that led up to it were over allowing slavery to expand westward, either by the Southern states or, after the Secession, by a foreign nation. Business interests in the non-Slave states knew that they couldn’t compete against slave labor.

That was then and this is now, and that now includes America not being able to effectively against China, to lesser extent the rest of Asia, and the Developing World where, once again, what amounts to slave labor is used.

That is certainly worthy of consideration.

Remember, all you Liberals and Progressives, Obama’s chimaera, Julia needs you to vote in November in order to keep is petty, little ass ensconced in the White House.

Julia Is Hungry – She Needs More Of Other People’s Money

You can’t leave it to the Blacks, after all. They don’t have enough people in their population that still have the privilege of voting to do it by themselves. Besides, Julia is White and isn’t it racist to expect the Blacks to care about her? 😆

C’mon! You don’t want Julia to starve – or have to grow up and be responsible for herself – do you? It’s not like a woman can ever make it on her own…

You almost have to admire the religious fervor of those, mostly Liberals and Progressives, who so hate the thought of law abiding Americans owning and using firearms. Their faith, however misplaced and antithetical to core American values, is so strong that it defies all reality and all facts.

They will gladly do anything to infringe upon the Gods given right of every American to be armed as he or she sees fit for the protection of their persons, their property, and their loved ones.

Their belief seems to be that a totally disarmed society would bring about greater peace and order.

You Can Give Peace A Chance

Of course, I reserve that sentiment for dealing with foreign aggressors and for the protection of women and children. When it comes to domestic problems, if you’re biologically male and nominally adult, your self-defense is utterly up to you. I will, in point of fact, either walk on by or stop to watch the show. I will not waste my time and effort or put myself at risk to save you from yourself.

Is Fathers’ Day racist? Given that 60% – 75% of Black babies that are allowed to be born within America’s borders – 40% – 60% of the total number of Black pregnancies – are illegitimate, how long can it be before this holiday is deprecated as racist, horribly political incorrect, and insensitive to “normative Black Culture” which places little or no value upon parenting, especially fatherhood?

All cultures and peoples have their myths and myth cycles. These myths are actually one of the identifying foundations of those separate cultures and peoples and, by and large, they are both good and necessary. Only upon rare occasions do these myths become damaging.

Sadly, in America, one of our myths has become damaging. It might even be lethal to our nation.

Greek Mythology – It Couldn’t Happen In America

“It can’t happen here,” is a pernicious belief based on a self-serving and self-deluding perversion of American Exceptionalism. It’s a potentially lethally harmful myth.

Not only can what is happening in Greece and Europe happen in America, it is already happening. We just haven’t hit the bottom … yet.

California and many other of the several States are, essentially, as bankrupt as Greece and are being propped up by the federal government, a government that is so deep in debt that it boggles the mind – and they want to keep borrowing more and fight against any reining in of their profligate spending!

What is the scariest is that one thing really can’t happen here in America. The European Union is predicted to collapse very soon but that can’t happen in America; we have laws against secession and breaking the union. As no federal government that I could imagine would reduce itself, any attempt by the states to break the union for their own survival would lead to civil war.

The upcoming 2102 elections may not be the watershed moment but, if we don’t move swiftly, strongly, and sternly towards fiscal responsibility in this election, we will bring that moment closer – assuming it’s not here or already past – and make correcting the problems that much harder.