To be clear, Nikki Haley, like all RepubliKKKlans, is pro-slavery. Full stop! As CNN reports, “Nikki Haley was confronted on Wednesday by a voter in New Hampshire who called her out for not mentioning slavery in her response to his question about the cause of the Civil War. … ‘I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run. The freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do [like owning other people, apparently].’… ‘I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are [to have slaves, I guess],’ Haley added. ‘I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people [just not Black people and other minorities]. It was never meant to be all things to all people [such as barring people from owning other people].’ … ‘What do you want me to say about slavery?’ Haley asked [WTF!?!?].” And this person wants to be President? Yeah, it actually tracks perfectly!
Do you know why Haley could not answer this question correctly? (And there is only one right answer.) It’s because she and every other RepubliKKKlan believe that there is a minority class of people who are meant to be second-class citizens, and to admit that we had the Civil War to bring equality to Black people would be offensive to 45 percent of the electorate! The same percentage of Americans still think the Civil War is some great “lost cause.” It is incomprehensible to me that so many people in this sh*t-for-brains country still embrace with open arms and proudly America’s treasonous past. Christ-on-the-f***ing-Cross. The South f***ing lost! They were all traitors, yet half this country can’t let go. This is why we are headed toward another civil war because nearly half of Americans want a return to this bygone era — where white Anglo-Saxon Christian males dominated all facets of American life — but with a modern twist. That modern twist on slavery is to relegate all minorities to second-class status. People may not return to owning others like chattel, but RepubliKKKlans, evil evangelicals, MAGA morons, and QAnon kooks will seek ways to own minorities in other ways. They started with women’s healthcare by ending Roe and forcing gay people back into the closet. That’s just the beginning. The same ethos that dominated the South in the 1850s is resurging in the 2020s. Mark my words, f***tards. I see the throughlines from then to now as clearly as a crisp, cloudless winter day, and Haley’s Civil War answer is a telling glimpse into the mindset of a party (and public) that wants to force its version of “freedom” on the rest of us, which is not freedom at all. Haley’s answer is what a dying country looks like. Welcome to stupid America! Mark my words!