‘Gone With the Wind’ Explains a Lot About America
Watch it before the Second Civil War
Gone With The Wind is one of my absolute favorite movies. If you haven’t seen it, I suggest you do so as soon as possible. You cannot understand America until you’ve seen this sprawling Civil War classic about the fall of the Confederacy.
More than anyone else, I recommend it to pop conservatives threatening a second Civil War. I suppose it’s easy to call for war from the comfort of a television studio when you’re confident your friends and families won’t be part of the slaughter. And that’s what the Civil War was: a savage bloodbath that laid waste to hundreds of thousands of Americans. Millions, in today’s numbers. Wishing for a new war between the states do the dead a dishonor by suggesting the great cause was anything but pain and sorrow.
Liberals who support tearing down Confederate monuments should also give Gone With The Wind a viewing. I think we should leave them up as big ugly reminders. History repeats itself because history is a jerk who doesn’t like to be ignored.
Here’s that history in a nutshell: Americans will always fight for their God-given right to be cruel, self-pitying assholes to their neighbors. We have murdered each other since the birth of the Nation and in 1861, we did it on an unprecedented scale…
