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Entry: Lies, Ignorance and "Useful Idiots"... Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/lies_ignorance_and_useful_idiots#13330 Post contents: Not to distract from the current cross-fire between the Brits and her progeny, but the dystopic pattern pre-dates 1914 by at least 50 years...to the Civil War era and its' aftermath, Reconstruction. Regardless of one's position on slavery, the dysfunctions of an unleashed Federalism received its baptism by fire in the blast furnaces of the artillery and train-rich Civil War. The Bankers and Industrialists won the civil war then were winged by antitrust law by Teddy only to blast themselves in the Depression (not unlike what is unfolding today). After a brief bruising, they were again Federally supported in the Roosevelt New Deal only to see the military Industrial Complex make it a permanent arrangement in the 50's. At least the New Dealers had the good form to house their government muscle building in temporary quonsut huts along the Mall, built shoddily so that they would automatically have a termination date certain. Even New Dealers were uncertain about the eficacy of Federalist expansion. Now, they have abandoned the pretensions of quonsut huts .......building permanently, all over the world and embracing their kith and kin on K Street who dispense incentive pay to both Big Government Republicans and Big Government Democrats. For their part, the Corporations have replaced the production of widgets and jobs with the creation of paper pushing and propaganda to a level that would make the Bolsheviks gleam red with desire. Media has replaced religion as the opiate of the masses. As much as I might disagree with Southern Exceptionalism and rabidly White Supremacist rhetoric, I think it safe to say that the first shots on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy inadvertently bombarded individual craft and self-determining labor as much as they did the idea of Union and Federalist hegemony. It is no wonder, with the the triumvirate of; Excessive Federalism, the Financialization of the economy and the consolidation of Corporate Socialism that the Rebel Flag remains a potent symbol of stubborn individuality in the modern lapsed Republic. I prefer the old Anarch yellow rag, the Gadsden Flag myself with it's rattlesnake, about which Franklin said in defense of it as a national symbol over the carrion eating Eagle: It is native to the U.S. and it is hesitant to strike, only striking in self defense and when doing so, it is deadly. There is a straight short line between the Civil War and todays bloated and overweening Federalist sow. Sent at: 2008 11 21