UPDATE–Oh, that slavery thing?
Elections have consequences. We can celebrate that at the national level when we have a president who ends torture, prevents a depression, and makes the first steps toward health care reform.
We can also see it at the state level, and it isn't always pretty.
Take Virginia, for instance. Just last month we saw Virginia's new attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, order all of Virginia's colleges to start discriminating against gay people, reasoning that there is no basis in Virginia law to treat them as equal human beings.
After health care reform passed Cuccinelli announced that he'll join the groundless federal case challenging the health care reform law.
The latest move is right at the top, though. In addition to a new Republican AG, Virginia has a new Republican Governor. You know what he's into? Supporting slavery and treason.
The last Republican governor, George “Macaca” Allen, also signed on in favor of the Confederacy back in 2002.
The next time you hear some conservative attacking liberals as being anti-American and unpatriotic, just remind him about this.
This sums it up nicely.
As the Bard of Chicago aptly notes in response to Governor McDonnel’s apology for domestic terrorism and treason — “[these treasonous Confederates] fought for their homes and communities”:
… And it fits right in with confederate aims – perpetuating and extending human slavery and oppression.
We’ll get a lot more traction with changing present day trends, if we remember those southern traditions, and remember that the south never really gave up the fight.