The Confederacy: It's Not Just For Black People Anymore

.....You know how you can go right past something for years and one day you just notice it? You can think God points you to it, or that it was hidden in your subconscious waiting to show itself, or that you have reached a state of enlightenment, or something? Huh? Huh?

.....Well, it happened this week. I'm driving the short cut to the local grocery store for my weekly giant Mr. Goodbar (the candy, not the sexual innuendo). I pass the local most-likely-to-be-a-future-cult-compound house. The one with the newly redone wooden fence with a sign on it that says, "Don't touch the fence" right beside the "No Trespassing" sign. The truck is in the driveway, complete with NRA sticker and plastic bull testicles hanging under the license plate. You know, the ones that put the trash in "white trash". Confederate flag raised high, the only thing seen from behind that fence (mercifully I'm sure).

.....And then it hit me. The past connected with the present and it all became clear.

.....The Confederate flag has been a lightning rod for controversy for decades, supposedly because it represented those that supported slavery of African-Americans. But it had always grated on me, a white middle-aged guy, for some other reason as well, one that I couldn't quite put my finger on. But, thanks to John McCrochety and Sarah Playalong, I finally get it. Thanks to a word they seem to say, or dance around, or insinuate, every 3.5 days.

.....The Confederacy was a terrorist organization. One that did far more damage to both the landscape and the American way than Bill Ayers. More than Todd Palin's play-secessionism. More than 9/11.

.....So someone ask McMidgetArms how quickly he'd outlaw the Confederate terrorist flag if he got elected President. And if he wavers, ship him straight to Guantanamo.