Prometheus 6

Today's linkage has been interesting. Y'all know I'm much deeper into the conversation than the articles that inspire them, and it's been no different with the blog posts I discussed below. You see there's folks who get it, who almost get it, who are trying to get it. And if you're real about it you get the folks that mean well and do badly, or just...misunderstand.

From a purely mechanical viewpoint, all that shows there is the material available to build a rapproachment IF people want it more than they seem to right now. A lot more. And there are several historical misunderstandings you have to let go of. There's no chance of changing reality unless you know what it is.

I have a lens through which I'd like you to view our political system. See, everyone insists they are on one side or another but all the RINOs and DINOs are proof that this particular divisions isn't primary in our political system.

Let's go back to the Civil War. You had Democrats and Republicans arguing over...stuff. But they didn't feel so strongly about the issues as to dissolve the union over them, did they? All manner of compromises (the word used in the worst possible sense in this case) were made until the South gathered together and rebelled. They lost, but swore the South would rise again. This was the beginning of the Solid South, or as I like to call it, the American S.S.

The American S.S. has hung together from that point forward. After the Republican Party stopped competing in the South as part of the arrangement that brought Reconstruction to an end the joined the Democratic Party en mass. Just as they abandoned it en mass. They blocked anti-lynching legislation...it was not the the legislation was never submitted. The wouldn't let New Deal legislation pass until the majority of jobs Black folks were excluded. They had the same impact on labor legislation; Southern culture at the time couldn't tolerate he idea that Black and white workers should be paid the same.

And yes, Democrats and Republicans were complicit in always finding Black Americans' interests to be acceptable losses. It was always like, "Hey, that might make our nigs uppity," and there's be an argument that always ended like, "Oh, fine, fine...it's not worth losing the whole deal."

But as I see it, the American S.S. has shared a common culture and set of goals for over a century now. The American S.S. has always pursued it's own goals above the nation's and has acted as a more cohesive unit than either party. I think it should be seen as a third political force...Democratic Party, Republican Party and the Solid South.