Confederate flag, Lake City, FL
A huge Confederate flag waved high over the interstate north of Lake City, Florida in stark contrast to Steve Shoemaker’s verse about Lincoln (posted earlier the same day).
Abraham Lincoln is perhaps America’s most revered President. The spirit of Lincoln is still with us. So is the spirit of John Wilkes Booth and the KKK.
It’s not everywhere in the South you will see the Confederate flag flying. You won’t see it in Key West, the southernmost spot in the United States of America. But some things die hard, and other things never seem to die. Like guns. Like white supremacy. Like war.
– Gordon C. Stewart, writing from Jackson, MS, Feb. 21, 2015
Views from the Edge 
My daughter reports TV commercials in Colorado Springs equating guns with love. Seriously, show the one you love that you really care. Give her the gift of love — a gun. With hearts as visuals throughout. (Hearsay, of course.)
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Mona, it’s insanity, isn’t it? There’s enough of that to go around, which is why you became a therapist!
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And why I can’t take the bad news after midday …
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Lincoln, TR, Eisenhower, could not be nominated for anything in the old south Republican, Tea Party havens. The Southern Strategy worked for Reagan. The Civil Rights & Voting Rights bills caused a huge shift from. Johnson’s Democratic Party.
Reagan’s opening speech for his re-election campaign was in Philadelphia, Mississippi. “New Federalism.”
That and the Robertson Christian Coalition & Falwell – Cal Thomas Moral Majority linked the evangelicals to the Catholic’s Right to Life. The Reagan, Robertson-Ralph Reed, Falwell-Thomas team crushed Tradition of Lincoln in the Republican Party & kept the battle flag flying. The Obama. Is a Muslim, he hates America, under-educated Faux Views watching angry white over 50 man is represented in the south. “God, Guns & Gravy.” is alive under that flag.
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Jim, you continue to amaze me in your ability to concisely state the history that led to where we are today. Thank you. I may re-post this.
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