Just another mixed bag.

I have been spending time rethinking Native Americans and Colonials. The subject is interesting
because the reason many of us were attracted to Bad Eagle was the myth of its creator. All of us wanted to believe in a persons right of self definition. The concept I thought of when I went to Bad Eagle was a Native American embracing the ethos of the founding fathers and celebrating Americanism.

Most readers are aware of my ethnicity. Jewish people have their own history. I do not hold grudges against Germans, Russians or any other nation for its past abuse of my people. Germany made amends and moved ahead. It is important to remember the Holocaust and Nazism from a historical perspective. The left cheapens the real history of Nazism by comparing anyone they do not like from GW Bush and various Pope's to Hitler. It has been suggested that I hate Poland. I am not a Pole but it is apparent that some Polish and Ukranian blood is in my DNA and perhaps in the residents of Poland as well. My family fought for Poland in 1920, but as Jews fending off a great evil. They left to come to a country where they could worship as they chose and be a part of Americana. You could talk to the immigrant generation and they would tell you with pride of earning their citizenship. Even my curmudgeon Holocaust survivor Uncle ran to take the test and was proud of his achievement.

When we talk of history we need to remove some of the Marxist crap. The story of America is not about class warfare and victimization. It is about a nation being founded on a set of shared ideals. Most of the difficult chapters in American history are from failing to spread those ideas to
its logical conclusion.

I want to point out the difference in the common American Patriot as typified by Mr Beamish and the Europhile apologist for totalitarianism Ducky. Ducky unlike most commies is relatively well rounded and can be personable.

A common rant of the Duck is complaining that freedom to most Americans is having 50 brands of Potato Chips to get obese. The reaction from the Patriotic Mr. B is who are you to determine what is best for America and pass the Barbecue Kettle Fried Chips.

Make no mistake in that when you are dealing with a Marxist you are dealing with a cultist who thinks he is in possession of the divine truth as stated by a mendicant unemployable philosopher. They are more fundamentalist and doctrinaire and less reality based than the folks at the 700 Club who they mock. They are also as bigoted as the KKK. They merely focus their obsessions on Jews merely using a code word or two.

This blog has plenty of readers who are genuine Christians. They would not dream of telling you
what food should be in your cupboard or taxing a Whopper. There are some who home school their children to avoid the Marxist indoctrination of our educational system. It would be far better to take the political agitation out of our educational system and get back to basics. Perhaps one day, parents could opt for a more traditional school program. A parent could choose if he wanted a more classical English lit program and traditional history as opposed to Marxist drivel. Maybe someday the folks in big education will grasp the damage the leftist activists have
done to their profession.

When you hear the Duck rattle on about Cuba making excuses about a regime that has been gone 50 years. It is a sign of progress that Cubans can read exactly what communists tell the unwashed masses. Hailed Cuban health care included the use of placing gays and political prisoners in mental hospitals. Aids patients were placed into what amounts as soft prisons. One could only imagine the reaction of the demented Duck if anyone suggested this in the USA.

With this divide noted lets look at history again

Slavery

Slavery was a given in all societies. The question of if the practice was barbaric didn't get considered later. The notion that slavery was an abomination was largely a Christian concept. The generic Marxist apologist view that somehow slavery in Africa, by American Indians or in Arabia was somehow less odious is political correctness run amok. Moreover, Marxists practice Neoslavery in gulags in the current era.

The United States went through a Civil War largely to end the practice. Today the best discussion of slavery starts with it was a product of an earlier less enlightened time and hardly unique to America. The mistake occurred by not being including all people in our standard of individual rights and liberties. We discuss the wrongs of the era in its proper context without the Marxist malfeasance of indict a civilization by its history. Oddly when I use this same technique
on communists they cry and do not have a clue how to respond.

Our nation does not have second class citizens. An American is a person with a shared set of ideals and values embodied in our founding documents. Thus one there is a wide difference between myself and Mr. B but we both respect the founding principles and respecting the give and take is within our traditions.

Communists typically describe themselves as "citizens of the planet". Their dogmatic replies and mania about nationalism are not American in spirit. Thus someone like the Duck may be born here but he wants to alter this country into EU#2. He has no respect for our traditions or the actual views of the people. In his opinion all of you are living a false consciousness because you reject his faith.

With these notes in hand, watching the exchanges between the Marxist Duck and a Nationalist liberal make more sense. Also remember that when I am discussing issues with Mr. Beamish, AOW or Warren on the right it is a different conversation.