So what about these statues anyway?

I know this subject has been beat to death, but I want to offer a couple thoughts. Some of you might not agree with me, but that's the beautiful thing about this blog. We can disagree and stay friends. Unlike the left where they are required to march in goosestep with each other, we have many different opinions. Conservatives truly are the party of diversity and independent thought.


So anyway, I don't for a second believe the godless left cares a bit about these statues. I don't believe they just suddenly woke up and were filled with angst over some statues. I think they went after one statue and when they saw the reaction they knew they had a hot button issue. After the Russia thing panned out and turned out to be another big nothing, and President Trump was proven right on North Korea and he backed them down this was where they went to generate hatred and division.


Remember, these statues were put up by democrats in the first place. They are theirs. Now they've turned it all around and people are defending the wrong side. I don't think this was a fight we should have ever engaged in. The talking point should have been the same every single time. Your party put the statues up, if you want them down, take them down. They're yours anyway.


These statues were just part of the democrat party trying to rehabilitate itself after the Civil War. Now here's where we may part company, but this is how I feel.


Despite the notion that the Civil War was fought for state's rights, it was not. It was fought over slavery. Read you history. The state's rights the south fought for was the right to keep slaves. The Republican party was born out of opposition to slavery. Lincoln was strongly opposed to slavery. The southern democrats started a war rather than submit to the nation's laws against slavery. That's all factual.


After the war, when reconstruction came along the south was allowed to restore it's dignity with the claim the fight was over independence and state's rights instead of what it really was about. This was something people allowed because the goal was to reunify the country and heal the wounds.


But the democrat party fought tooth and nail even after the war. They created the KKK. They were rabid segregationists. They fought the civil rights act and the voting rights act. Republicans passed those. To this day, they fight to keep blacks on the plantation and helpless dependents on the government. They fight to keep abortion free and easy even though a disproportionate number of black babies are aborted. Planned Parenthood and abortion were born from the openly racist eugenics movement which sought to exterminate the black race.


I know my history. Robert E Lee was a good and moral man, a Christian. He was a brilliant military leader. Lincoln offered him the command of the Union armies but he refused because he knew they would invade Virginia and he couldn't do that. But he also led the fight that killed an estimated 700,000 men in the fight to keep slavery. So despite all his positives, there is that one big negative.


I think when this started we played right into their hands. By fighting the statue issue we let them fan the flames and spread their hatred and violence and gave the media an opportunity to attack us even if it was based on lies. We opened the door for this one.


And we gave them the win when we made the fight in Charlottesville over statues. It was over freedom of speech. That's the fight we should have had. And that's the issue President Trumps should have been hitting on.


I say from here on when they want a statue of a confederate general taken down, the response should be you people put it up so you can take it down.


I'll be interested to hear your thoughts on this one. I know not everybody agrees with me but that's OK. We don't have to agree. Let me know what you think.