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mcar

(42,334 posts) Thu Jul 6, 2017, 06:59 PM Jul 2017

Pierce: An American President Was Greeted in Poland by the Confederate Flag

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a56168/poland-confederate-flag-trump/

The saddest sight I've seen since Inauguration Day was the Confederate battle flag being waved to greet El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago upon his arrival in Poland on Thursday morning. I remember when it was a Polish labor union that got the ball rolling in bringing historic political change to Eastern Europe, with a considerable push from an upwardly mobile former Archbishop of Krakow. Now, a president* of dubious legitimacy shows up and someone in the crowd celebrates by waving the historic banner of American treason and white supremacy.

And then the president* gives a speech that's half John Birch, half Jack D. Ripper. From The New York Times:

"The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?"

If I thought he knew the full ramifications of what he's appealing to, I might cut the man some slack. But I don't think he knows the full ramifications of what he had for lunch. Politicians who start talking about "will" in defense of the proposition that civilization is synonymous with culture give me the shakes. The problem with this is that I don't trust the president* or his inner circle to come up with a definition of The West that isn't based in ethnocentric white nationalism.