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• Friday, July 4, 2008 03:10 PM

  @ajcalhoun

  I've always found your posts to be worth reading, especially considering that you bring the perspective of a long-time GOP member to the table.

  Your notion of discussing just how perfectly terrible Helms was as a man and a politician makes sense... simple name-calling doesn't get us anywhere.

  However, I do take disagree with your characterization of those who voted for Helms, over and over again, as "ignorant." I don't think they were ignorant at all. I think those voters knew exactly what Helms stood for, in every detail, and I think they voted for him all those years precisely for that reason. They knew him well.

  This country has NEVER resolved the tension between the rebels and the loyalists of the 18th century. The modern South is a perfect example of that, as voters there continue to send one monarchist prick after another to Washington.

  All those Southern voters know exactly what they're doing. They're doing what they've always done: shit all over our constitution, the revolution, modernity itself.

  I would argue that the chief reason our country is in such a terrible mess right now is because of those unreconstructed loyalists who populate the South, who would really be much happier in an authoritarian state. They sent a bunch of savage, greedy, ignorant, dickwad Texans to the White House, for eight years, out of their endless sense of grievance and fear.

  The South is our crazy uncle in the basement..only, we just let him run the household for the last eight years.

  Until we blot out this racist, homophobic, xenophobic, loyalist-monarchist taint in our body-politic, this country will never truly realize its greatness. In fact, the only times this country has been great, was when it fought furiously against everything the South stands for, and won a battle or two..but never the war.

  I don't know the answer. I just know the problem. And it's a bad problem. It goes back beyond colonization of the New World, far back into the mists of time. I don't know how we fix it. But we better figure out how, or, in their utter craziness, the South will destroy this country. They've already gone a good way down that road.

  —had_enough Read had_enough's other letters
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