By “W”
thursday, november 16, 2023 at 08:53:41 p.m. est
reported by khou.tv [killtv]
https://www.khou.com/article/entertainment/events/houston-uptown-holiday-lighting-not-happening/285-888104ab-96b1-4773-8e53-3e5c93a17f22
“W” was alluding to Sam Francis (1947-2005), America’s greatest political thinker of the past 40 or so years, who wrote a series of columns, “America Erased,” back in 2000. I’ve read some of those columns three times over the years. One of them warned that supporting the war on the confederate battle flag, because it wasn’t the Stars-and-Stripes, was foolish, because it was clearly a harbinger of the war on the latter. And, of course, he was proven right.
Francis and I didn’t know each other, but I freelanced for Chronicles from 1992-1999, where I religiously read his column his column (“Principalities and Powers”?); see also here).
One Chronicles column by Francis that I recall from the mid-1990s, was devoted to an important dichotomy in political science: “secessionism vs. consolidationism.”
Yes, Francis’ thought remains that powerful. It ages well, even if American and foreign reality don’t.
"In fact, had the conservatism of a younger Strom Thurmond prevailed, there’s little reason to doubt the United States and much of the rest of the world would be better off than they are today under the reign of terror and chaos that prevails as the chief legacy of liberalism."
ReplyDeleteGRA:Except,the people had their chance in 1948 and didn't do the White...er uh...right thing.
Unless Dominion was already in business back then.
--GRA
"supporting the war on the confederate battle flag, because it wasn’t the Stars-and-Stripes, was foolish, because it was clearly a harbinger of the war on the latter."
ReplyDelete100 % true.