James Flanagan
Aug 31, 2018 · 2 min read

We have to recall that for many Americans this is not a “fall” but a return to a romanticized and glorified past of racial suppression and white, minority rule. I refer, of course, to the Confederacy. The country only became a country partly by ensuring overrepresentation for the slave states through the creation of the Senate and the Electoral College. The Second Amendment also helped reassure the South that they would not succumb to their ultimate fear, a slave rebellion.

The increasing concentration of the population in cities and coastal states worsened the effects. Injustice is now enforced by an entrenched, entitled and militant minority the lower ranks of which, however disadvantaged relative to the rich, only want to avoid the horror of becoming part of an integrated, diverse and multiracial subclass. If they are blind to the injustice they foist on themselves by voting for bigots and lunatics it’s because they are looking downwards.

Naturally, they lack the clear-mindedness to see that they are underlings for mafia bosses for whom pragmatism always trumps loyalty. They are cannon fodder in the culture wars and wrongly assume — and this is typically human — that the increasingly evident failure of their tactic of submission to the class warriors is because they aren’t submitting enough, hence the stunning rush to and competition in cult-like servility and degradation. Socially, our superego has failed us.

The id is in control and our tattered ego is struggling to maintain its composure and integrity with its back against the wall.