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August 20, 2014

It’s odd how clearly the American century is marked: 1865 to 1965.

As the 20th century historian Shelby Foote noted, the first Civil War made us one nation.
In 1860, we wrote, “the United States are.” By the end of the war, the verb was singular: “the United States is.” After 1965 and another war we disunited—deconstructed—with equal speed into blacks, whites, Hispanics, womyn, gays, victims, oppressors, left-handed albinos with congenital halitosis, you name it. The homosexuals said silence = death. Nature replied diversity = war.
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Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 20, 2014 7:05 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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It's only now that I've recognized the error in my own thinking that I can see how so many Americans have been duped for so many decades into believing that this nationalist (and, later, nationalist/socialist) shift was a "good" thing. The implications are obvious and chilling.

That said, when I first read it the other day, I remember thinking that this passage in "Victoria" oversimplifies the history just a tad. And not in a good way.

The "Civil" War, per se, didn't make us one nation. All it did was destroy the Republic to make way for what came next.

What made the US "one nation" was the so-called "Reconstruction", the "national citizenship" of the 14th Amendment, the further stripping away of State sovereignty in the 17th Amendment, the federal tax on individual incomes and "incorporation doctrine" - all of which were diametrically opposed to the spirit and the letter of the Constitution and the Republican Form of Government it guaranteed.

This "one nation" - at least insofar as a collection of formerly sovereign States, conscripted into a de facto empire and ruled by a federal oligarchy can be called "one nation" - has suffered from a form of Dissociative Disorder for well over a century. One - largely suppressed - identity clings to the fading memory of self-evident truths, inalienable rights and an enforceable Tenth Amendment, while the other, dominant identity accepts the inevitability of tyranny embodied in the mindless recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance (i.e., the nationalist, secular simulacrum of The Lord's Prayer).

Posted by: AGoyAndHisBlog [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 20, 2014 9:02 AM

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