Authored by Victor Davis Hanson,
Within the election of 1860, southern Democrats in 10 states of the soon-to-be formalized Confederacy made it virtually not possible for their very own voters to forged ballots for Abraham Lincoln for President.
In that sense, the Left in Colorado would have felt proper at dwelling within the ante-bellum South – erasing the identify of a presidential candidate whom they loathed and by whom they had been equally terrified.
In eerie style, and in addition much like the previous ethos of the Confederacy, the Democratic Left now believes in state nullification of federal statutes.
So just like the would-be secessionist states of 1860-1, over 550 jurisdictions, virtually all in blue states, declare that federal immigration legal guidelines now not apply to them.
Thus they brag that they will breezily be defied. (Not so simply or willfully are federal gun legal guidelines, or EPA mandates, or federal endangered species lists, ignored in red-state jurisdictions.)
The essence of sanctuary cities is an conceited sense that federal regulation means nothing to morally superior native and state governments.
In order that they nullify federal immigration legal guidelines within the method of defying tariffs by South Carolina in 1832, or racial integration by Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1963.
Wallace tried to dam integration by opposing federal implementation of the Supreme Courtroom’s ruling in opposition to segregation of scholars by race in public colleges and universities, in addition to President Kennedy’s federalization of the Alabama nationwide guard.
This Confederatization of Leftist values and protocols is uncanny. And I wrote concerning the phenomenon in a current New Criterion article” The Outdated South Shall Rise Once more”.
The echoes hold popping up periodically and predictably within the information, as we noticed with the Colorado erasure of Donald Trump from Colorado’s main and sure normal election poll. Take additionally racial fixations and obsessions. Is the present variety/inclusion/fairness—woke motion primarily based on related racial essentialism?
Or in Accomplice phrases, are we again to certifying one’s specific DNA (now by blood exams, however then by genealogists)? Does the South’s previous one-sixteenth/one-drop rule (ask Elizabeth Warren) nonetheless decide racial standing and privilege?
Do our DEI/woke racially segregated campus dorms, segregated secure areas, segregated graduations, and segregated occasions echo Wallace’s 1963 Inauguration Tackle chant—“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation ceaselessly!”?
Are blue-states changing into like one-dimensional “King Cotton” economies of the previous?
Simply as a “King Cotton” financial system ran the politics of the Outdated South by way of its unprecedented wealth, so too our fashionable leftist magnates are sometimes one-industry “Large Tech” titans—of Amazon, Apple, Fb, and Google—who kind of by their PAC and basis “donations” (Mark Zuckerberg alone accounted for $419 million ) warped the work of registrars in lots of the key 2020 counties.
One mark of Confederates was the strangling of the southern center class. A tiny plantationists elite sat atop an unlimited caste of black slaves and a poor hireling white inhabitants.
But when it comes to mixture state earnings and wealth, by 1860 5 of the wealthiest ten states in America had been slave states and about to secede—given the unquenchable world urge for food of the rising Industrial Revolution for southern cotton. (Was the need for and energy of Cotton then like iPhones and Google searches?)
So the sheer energy, wealth, and affect of the plantationists remind one among clout and superciliousness of California’s Silicon Valley and its $9-trillion {dollars} in market capitalization.
Certainly, it’s eerie in debates and declarations how California Governor Gavin Newsom brags about California mega-Large Tech success and wealth. Usually Newsom talks grandly of his Bay Space, Silicon Valley sector, as if he was Sen. James Hammond, a southern plantation proprietor, and U.S. Senator from South Carolina, who boasted defiantly in 1858 that “Cotton is King!”
However like Hammond, Newsom then predictably grows silent concerning the state’s one-fifth of the resident inhabitants under the poverty line, one third of all US welfare recipients, the crumbling infrastructure, the dismal colleges, the large multibillion-dollar state deficits, the shrinking and fleeing center class, the exploding homeless, and the retribalization of the state’s society by race.
Simply as King Cotton appeared to make sure palatial houses amid an impoverished normal inhabitants, poor roads, anemic {industry} and manufacturing, few rails, and unhealthy public colleges, so too does blue-state wealth reside disproportionally within the arms of the few atop a rising class of poor and a vanishing center class.
Within the years earlier than the Civil Conflict and within the ante-bellum Jim Crow South, southern states bled populations fleeing to the brand new territories within the West or to the manufacturing and industrial boomtowns of the North. They had been escaping a fossilized society of have and have nots—eerily consultant of the present ethos of the blue-state paradigm.
California has the richest zip codes and best variety of billionaires, and close to highest poverty fee. New York is shut; each have largest variety of residents escaping their states—mockingly to a brand new South that’s changing into as dynamic because the previous bygone North.
So the current poll erasing of Colorado matches this bigger image of blue-states emulating the values of ante-bellum southern states – erasing ballots, defying federal legal guidelines, fixating on race and racial privileges, and catering to a one-dimensional medieval financial system and caste, amid a rising underclass fighting uncared for infrastructure, poor colleges, and rising poverty.
So what would be the new/previous Democratic 2024 election mantra?
“Vote for us—and poll deletion, states’ rights, federal nullification, racial essentialism and segregation, and a one-party, one-economy plantationist nation”?
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