Matt Walsh: No, America Is Not a Great Nation

In The Blaze of all places, Matt Walsh has the spiciest take of Independence Day. I decided to do a tribute post to the Southern Founders, particularly Jefferson, who I have been studying lately.

The Blaze:

“Mike,

Thanks for writing.

I’m sorry but I can’t give you exactly what you want, unless you want something better and truer than the sort of fraudulent “hopefulness” and “optimism” most people seek these days. They want the brand of cheap, commodified hope you get from a 30-second video where a guy finds his lost dog or whatever and at the end tries to sell you beer. They want the inspiration of a viral marketing video. They want it like funnel cake: sweet, empty and quickly digested. …

You want me to get into the holiday spirit and remind everyone that America is still great, but I don’t know, Mike, does a great country murder a million babies every year?

Does a great country ignore its own laws and tear its Constitution to pieces?

Does a great country become among the first in human civilization to dismantle the institution of marriage in favor of legitimizing sexual perversion?

Is a great country so confused that it can’t tell the difference between male and female?

Does the nuclear family collapse in a great country?

Does a great country have historically high rates of divorce, unwed pregnancy and fatherless homes?

Do little girls get IUDs implanted in them by school officials without parental consent in a great country?

Do citizens burn down their own cities in a great country?

Is moral relativism the cultural driving force in a great country?

Are churches empty in a great country?

Do one in every five citizens favor forcing priests to perform gay weddings in a great country?

Is pornography a billion-dollar industry in a great country?

Are there 110 million cases of STDs in a great country?

Are college students unable to name the vice president but able to chug a fifth of vodka in a great country?

Is higher education overrun by feminists and nihilists in a great country?

Is apathy endemic in a great country?

Does the average person watch five hours of TV a day in a great country?

Are people threatened, fired, attacked, belittled and ripped to shreds for having differing opinions in a great country?

Do young adults ransack stores just for fun in a great country?

Do schools teach kids how to masturbate but forget to teach them how to read in a great country ?

Is “50 Shades of Grey” a best-seller in a great country?

Does Christianity decline in a great country?

Are soldiers forced to sit in classrooms and listen to lectures about “white privilege” in a great country?

Has the gay agenda so infiltrated even the military that now officers are chased out of their jobs for telling lesbians to stop french-kissing while in uniform in a great country?

Does the government hand out birth control to children in a great country?

Do illegal immigrants stream over the border at will in a great country?

Are 151 million people on the government dole in a great country?

Do a majority of Americans vote for Barack Obama twice in a great country?

Does a great country laugh at morality, reject reality and worship cross-dressers?

Do adults in a great country so lack even the most rudimentary knowledge of their own great country that they can’t even explain why their great country celebrates the Fourth of July?

Is this what happens in a great country?

If so, what’s so great about being great? Where is the optimism in that miserable greatness? Where is the hope for the future if moral bankruptcy, selfishness, confusion, stupidity, deviancy and failure are “great”?

Yeah, I agree with all of this.

It is also completely consistent with my take on the 4th of July. America used to be great when it was ruled by Southerners. That’s when our ancestors conquered and settled the North American continent in pursuit of Manifest Destiny. This country used to reflect our values when we controlled it, but like Robert Barnwell Rhett the Star Spangled Banner no longer waves in triumph and glory for me.

As Jefferson Davis and Rhett explained after the war, Lincoln destroyed the voluntary union of the Founders and replaced it with a consolidated despotism. Robert E. Lee famously said after the war that “I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it. I need not refer one so well acquainted as you are with American history, to the State papers of Washington and Jefferson, the representatives of the federal and democratic parties, denouncing consolidation and centralization of power, as tending to the subversion of State Governments, and to despotism.”

The moral ruin that we are living under today is a direct consequence of the victory of the Union in the War Between the States. During the Reconstruction era, the Radical Republicans overthrew the Constitution of the Founders and inverted our constitutional order with the Reconstruction Amendments which are effectively a “second constitution.” It is one that in Lincoln’s words from the Gettysburg Address is “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” and is “a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” By a “new birth of freedom” based only on a “proposition,” Lincoln meant the absolute supremacy of the federal government over the states which would be endowed with unlimited powers to coerce the states to expand the definition of “freedom” in hitherto inconceivable ways.

As we are told by George Will, Glenn Beck and David French, True Conservatism is classical liberalism. It was Lincoln and the Radical Republicans who transformed “liberty” into a social solvent by unleashing it through the Emancipation Proclamation. As George Fitzhugh and others had warned the North, “that what she calls a transition, is what every leading Abolitionist is moving heaven and earth to attain. This is their real object – negro emancipation a mere gull-trap.” Fitzhugh argued that abolitionism was merely a tactic in pursuit of a larger goal because “they know that men once fairly committed to negro slavery agitation – once committed to the sweeping principle, “that man being a moral agent, accountable to God for his actions, should not have those actions controlled and directed by the will of another,” are, in effect, committed to Socialism and Communism, to the most ultra doctrines of Garrison, Goodell, Smith and Andrews – to no private property, no church, no law, no government, – to free love, free lands, free women and free churches.”

See, it has all come true exactly as George Fitzhugh predicted it would in the year 1857 when he explained how the Northern doctrines of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism destroy the social fabric over time and generate all the “-isms” that plague Free Society:

“THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ISMS – SHEWING WHY THEY ABOUND AT THE NORTH, AND ARE UNKNOWN AT THE SOUTH.

The exploitation, or unjust exactions of skill and capital in free society, excite the learned and philanthropic to devise schemes of escape, and impel the laborers to adopt those schemes, however chimerical, because they feel that their situation cannot be worsted. They are already slaves without masters, and that is the bathos of human misery. Besides, universal liberty has disintegrated and dissolved society, and placed men in isolated, selfish, and antagonistic positions – in which each man is compelled to wrong others, in order to be just himself. But man’s nature is social, not selfish, and he longs and yearns to return to parental, fraternal and associative relations. All the isms concur in promising closer and more associative relations, in establishing at least a qualified community property, and in insuring the weak and unfortunate the necessaries and comforts of life. Indeed, they all promise to establish slavery – minus, the master and the overseer.”

We now live in a Clown World in which “liberty” and “equality” have been taken to absurd extremes. As Aristotle argued, a moderate amount of “liberty” is the ideal and a deficiency of it or tyranny is a bad thing, however, an excessive amount of “liberty” or anarchy is just as bad as tyranny. We now live under the worst of both worlds: anarchy and tyranny. We have a tyrannical government that oppresses us in order to preserve a state of cultural dissolution on behalf of “oppressed minorities.”

This is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind though. This is the peculiar genius of the Jewish race at work who largely came into this country during the Great Wave to work in all the factories of the Gilded Age and who exploited the vulnerabilities of the system to rise to the top of the social pyramid. When the Jews displaced the New England WASPs at the top of Lincoln’s America in the mid-20th century, they had all the tools of that “consolidated despotism” at their disposal to force their vision on the country.

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    • I sat quiet and morose amid a 95% white crowd watching the local firework/flag worshiping display. All I can think every year on this day is “you people are revering the symbol of an entity which is actively destroying you”.

  1. The black man should never have been brought here, and never enslaved.

    By choosing to fight and die on the hill of slavery, the South forever discredited states rights and the founding of the country.

    Whine about the North all you want, it was the South that cursed us by bringing and sustaining the madness of Africa on our shores.

    Without that most destructive of ingredients, the baking of the continent would have gone completely differently.

    • Old Ironbound,

      Rhode Island was heavily involved in the slave trade until industrialization hit the north in the 19th century. According to Northeast magazine Sept. 29 2002 at the height of slavery in Connecticut half of the state’s ministers, lawyers, and public officials owned slaves. In 1740 20% of the population of New York City were slaves.

      While slavery was never as widespread as in the South that appears to be because the South was more rural and industrialization did not hit the South until way after the North.

      If the War Between the States was merely about freeing slaves then after the Americans won they should then have given the Southern Separatists their independence and taken the negro freedmen up North to live with the northerners. I believe that would work out just fine—————-at least for the Southerners.

      • The first synagogue in colonial America was and is located in Newport, RI. Hmmm…..I wonder what kind of business was discussed inside that place during the days of the slave, rum and molasses trade?

    • “Whine about the North all you want, it was the South that cursed us by bringing and sustaining the madness of Africa on our shores.”

      Actually, it was the New England radicals exploiting slavery as the chink in the South’s political armour, that brought on all of the trouble.

      No Massachusetts, no war.

      • Yeah, it was perfectly fine that we had millions of evolutionary dead-ends living among us. JFC, man.

        • And yet RI prides itself on having outlawed slavery, capital punishment and an official church long before any other state. To its credit, they were reluctant to accept the new Constitutional regime being foisted on the country by the cabal millionaire freemasons in Philadelphia and did not submit until 1791.

    • I partly agree with this sentiment,

      I wrote my college final in English class one year on the subject of slave ownership in the antebellum south, because my prof. was a ball busting leftist old hag who I knew it would piss off to no end. But I researched every single line, and made her read and critique the drafts and fixed everything she said to until she was forced to give me an A on it. Then I got to read it to a mixed race class. Haha. Good times, simpler days. Community college lulz IDGAF.

      Anywho, slavery wasn’t by any means something that even a majority of white Southerners participated in. Rather it was the wealthy landowners, the same vested interests that resisted reforming their outdated economy, and forced the issue to the point of conflict, claiming the protection of states rights as a cloak for their own greed and decadence.

      Those people didnt even fight the war. Poor people, who didnt have slaves, fought the war. Hero generals fought the war. Aristocrats didn’t fight. Self righteous politicians didn’t fight.

      “Poor men fought and died, for rich men’s pride.”

      The confederacy, states rights, all of it. It was just a confederate flag patterned neckerchief around the neck of a fetid shambling corpse, in gentleman’s clothes, whining through golden teeth about, muh freedumz. The aristocracy always fails its duty to its subjects, and the poor people get to die for their mistakes.

      Dixie lives in the hearts of people who only want to live by the fruit of their OWN labor.

      The negro isn’t our fault. They aren’t our fellows in a class struggle. They aren’t brothers in faith, neighbors or our equals in any meaningful way, and never have been.

      They are now and have always been, our nemesis. Competition for labor, a threat to our women, a plague on every major city, the vector for every social disease and the chief source of crime and disorder.

      They are nothing less than a fucking albatross around the neck of the white working class. Same as the aristocracy.

    • “Whine about the North all you want, it was the South that cursed us by bringing and sustaining the madness of Africa on our shores.

      Without that most destructive of ingredients, the baking of the continent would have gone completely differently.”

      I couldn’t agree more. That they were even brought here will curse this country forever. Now the white idiots in Europe are doing essentially the same thing.

      • If Southerners brought the blacks here to work on their plantations, then Yankees brought the Jews here to work in their factories. Who has caused us more problems?

        • Whoever is responsible for allowing the Jews to settle in America ignored the warnings of 109 nations.

        • Hunter – SHAME ON YOU!!! You, of all people, should know that Jews ran the slave trade. And Yankees didn’t bring Jews in. JEWS came on their own. Virginian George Washington is the one who let them remain in America.

        • LOL….jews don’t work in factories. And I’ve always said it was a mistake to allow anyone other than Northern Europeans into this country.

          • Only Northern Europeans? Northern Europeans are cucks and got us into the mess we are currently in by allowing the Jews to take over and use their liberal individualistic values against them. Go to Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe and you will find millions of people across multiple nations who are woke on Race, Jews, sexual deviancy, and many other issues.

  2. Through Diversity and cultural Marxism America is becoming a 3rd world country.
    There are no great 3rd world countries.

  3. We are a fallen nation. We are an empire in decline. After Jackson, the elites took over for good. Even when there were systemic corrections, the nature of leftists to burrow within the system and corrupt it in the name of gathering and centralizing power was never checked. Wilson and FDR still have more of an effect on our lives than Trump ever will, thanks to cancers like the Fed and gov’t regulation and control of most aspects of our lives. The constitution was burned, and its ashes scattered to the winds long, long ago.

    Being right on an issue means nothing to those obsessed with power. Nothing. Look at how insane the left is, talking about abortion rights for transsexuals without any pushback. Any crazy thought can be and will be voiced, and taken seriously, by ideologues. The right is filled with equivocating pussies that will not fight back against censorship, let alone stand strong on abortion or the border. Not having a moral center or a defined set of principles to live by (and not fighting for those principles) means our ultimate decline is assured. No one man is coming to save us from ourselves and our cooperation with our self-destruction, or can. We will have to clean up whatever parts of the mess we can handle by ourselves. Will we do it? Will be able to, or allowed to? I hope so.

    This is the late Western Roman Empire all over again. Except this time, the barbarians are being ushered in and favored above the citizens. The US is a bloated imperial war state inverting itself into a perverse parody of a free republic. We are dying, and the death will either be cushioned by the imperial largess in the form of safety nets, or the house of cards will come down and groups will need to fight to preserve themselves if there is nothing left.

  4. Here is one rhetorical question Matt Walsh forgot to ask:

    Is a hostile alien parasite allowed to rule in a great country?

  5. Fitzhugh was a political and cultural prophet. Sadly, he was on the side of the losers, and worst of all, a “racist.” Whatever that term means.

    As an aside, I’ve recently been very free in public with certain supposedly racist terms, because I’m tired of being controlled. It’s always in situations where a nig or raghead did something wrong. Interestingly, I haven’t even been looked at sideways by the normies. I wonder if people are finally starting to not give a damn about the PC culture.

  6. “Lincoln destroyed the voluntary union of the Founders and replaced it with a consolidated despotism.”

    He replaced the rule of law with the rule of Massachusetts, and the authority of the Constitution with the authority of New York.

    “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

    What he meant was;

    “that government of the Northern people, by the Northern people, for the Northern people, shall not perish from the earth.”

    And that’s what we got until the Jews came along and seized control of it.
    Like we used to say on SNN, ” Jewish power is a symptom of Yankee rule.’

  7. Here we go. “It’s all the fault of them Damned Yankees!”

    Do get over yourselves, Dixians.

    PLEASE remember that actual, gen-yoo-wine YANKEES like John and Sam Adams are the ones who originated the idea, and pushed and pushed and pushed for dumping England.

    JEWS ran the slave trade. In Rhode Island and South Carolina. Charleston and Atlanta are still Jew centers. Jews screwed the South, as well as the rest of the country, but especially the South. Your Southern White Boys provide the bulk of Janissaries for ZOG’s Armed Golem. The apparent reflexive trait of blaming what are now non-existent “Yankees” instead the true source of the wreckage – Der ewige Jude – never ceases to astonish.. Ya’ll should know better by now…….

    Lincoln was born in KENTUCKY. KENTUCKY.

    KENTUCKY.

    Why are “ya’ll” blaming we Northerners for HIM? FYI – Lincoln loved his bestie Karl Marx. I think Lincoln’s genetic lineage is highly suspect. Booth was a Jew. See what’s literally in front of your eyes.

    • Exactly, Denise. Dictator Lincoln was born in Kentucky and his grandfather moved them there from VIRGINIA. He was no “DamnYankee”.

      • How are we going do ensure White well being, while we are fighting/arguing amongst ourselves? We need to be focused on the here and now.

        As Henry Ford Sr. Said, “The only history that matters is the history we make today”

        The real culprit for our race’s many ills are rubbing their hands together furiously and laughing at us.

        • I’m not fighting with anyone here.

          I love all of you. As I see it, the problem is deracination and loss of identity, memory and roots, which is why I am doing all of these history posts.

    • A lot of Southerners regard Lincoln as being from Illinois madam, because that is where he made a name for himself. .

  8. It was not Lincoln (he was no aristocrat) and the 1790 Naturalization Act :The ‘Great Emancipator’ and the Issue of Race :https://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html

    It was the radical republicans who destroyed the several sovereign states for a monolithic “democracy” … so now de Tocquevilles prophecy is about to occur “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

    A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
    — Alexis de Tocqueville

  9. There are some questions about when and where Lincoln was born. But, he wouldn’t be the only Border State or Southern resident who was miscreant enough to turn on his own people.

    The South did not secede to protect the institution of slavery, as it was already protected by the Constitution. Lincoln, himself, reiterated time and again that he had no legal authority to interfere with the ownership of slaves.

    The South, after numerous threats by Northerners to secede from the union, finally took it upon themselves to form their own government. Suddenly, Yankee hypocrites labeled the Confederates as traitors. No matter that they ( Pennsylvanian’s instigating the Whiskey Rebellion, New Englanders after the Louisiana Purchase and during the War of 1812, and Abraham Lincoln presumably speaking on behalf of Mid-Western opposition to the U. S. Mexican war) had repeatedly spouted off about secession.

    Slavery could have been ended gradually as Lincoln had often suggested, through compensation and recolonization. But these were not his schemes, they were ideas that had long been contemplated by the American Colonization Society, whose membership included such noted personages as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Francis Scott Key, Daniel Webster, Winfield Scott and, Lincoln’s idol, Henry Clay. Clay gave the inaugural address of the A.C.S., in which he said, “We must rid our country of a useless, pernicious, if not dangerous portion of its population.” Jefferson had expressed similar sentiments, writing, “Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is It less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live together in the same government.” and “We have a wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale and self preservation in the other.”

    The Yankees found it more profitable to exploit Irish Catholics, Germans and, later, Italians, to labor in their factories, rather than to utilize slave labor. If an immigrant got injured or became ill, you just cast him back out into the street from whence you hired him. Slaves, on the other hand, frequently had a sort of retirement plan, where infirm or aged servants had reduced work loads and were cared for until death. There is a great preponderance of documentation to prove this kind of arrangement existed, although it did not apply in every situation. The exploitation of immigrants is another Yankee contrivance and we are still suffering from it.

    Finally, under the Slave system, Southerners had our Negroes under control. Yankees not only unchained them, but encouraged them to commit atrocities. After a bitter period of Reconstruction, organized resistance in the forms of organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and Wade Hampton’s Red Shirts brought back a semblance of order. Plessy vs. Ferguson, modeled on a Massachusetts ordinance, codified relations between Negroes and Whites, which kept most of the criminal inclinations of the former in check. Yet, just over half a century later, Brown vs. The Board of Education once again overturned the existing order. The U. S. Government sent the 101st Airborne to draw bayonets on mothers in Arkansas who were concerned for the welfare of their children, and pretty much everything that has happened since has been at the insistence that Southerners must atone for their past and integrate their society. All the while, Yankees have ignored or downplayed their own defacto segregation and violent pogroms against the Negro populations in their midst. For instance, when a White woman was outraged in the South, the perpetrator was sought out and hanged for his offence. When a White woman was raped in the North, the entire Negro community was burned out. Southerners exercised moderation and control and are demonized for it. The Yankees epitomize hypocrisy, avarice and vile malevolence and expect to be deified.

    • President Eisenhower supposedly used Federal troops to enforce school desegregation in the South because the Soviets were using the issue of American “racism” to great effect in their Cold War propaganda. Similarly, the “Nazis” used unflattering images of the Klan and the lynching of niggers in their wartime propaganda campaign.

  10. Lincoln’s whole bloodline was degenerate and dissolute by the standards of the time. His grandmother Lucy had his mother Nancy illegitimately and it was an open secret that he, in turn, was not the biological son of the father of record, Thomas Lincoln, but some mountain man by the name of Abraham Enloe.

    Further, his maternal line was Melungeon (a mix of African, Native American and European people). Interestingly enough Melungeon translates in Turkish to “lost soul.”

    You will notice that the biggest problems in the country seem to come less from pure Blacks than mixed race people. The Mulattoes, many of whom were raised by Whites. Then the Mestizos have become an even more overwhelming problem. Last and most significantly, the Jews who, despite their reputation of endogamy, have had a long, deliberate history of concentrated bursts of race-mixing (seeking out the richest and most intelligent Gentiles of every race to absorb into the tribe).

    Abraham Lincoln seems to fit the mold of the vast majority of light-skinned mulattoes. They all seem to be engaged in crypsis, suffer a sense of alienation from virtiually everyone, and harbor smoldering resentment and extreme hatred of pure-blooded Whites and a determination to bring them down.

    Interestingly enough, though they will use them for any efforts on their behalf, pure-blooded Blacks, Asians, and indigenous Indians dislike and distrust the mixed race and, in many cases, view them with more hostility and horror than they do Whites. The first thing the pure-blooded Haitians did, after allowing the Mulattoes to help them wipe out the Whites was wipe them out.

    But, if the history of Lincoln’s stamp of illegitimacy as well as his rumored Melungeon ancestry is true, then the fatal flaw of American democracy is that it was a big mistake to allow any person of low origins from a family of suspicious moral character to rise in politics.

    You read Pride and Prejudice and it demonstrated that, traditionally and historically, one dissolute child could destroy the marital hopes and career ambitions of the entire family for generations to come. The male relatives didn’t murder the erring female like in the Arab countries, but she could and often was turned out to starve in the streets for her indiscretions.

    That would have been the fate of Lincoln’s grandmother, Lucy, but it was the democratic conventions as well as the vastness of America that enabled her to pull up stakes, go where no one knew of her shame, and survive. I can’t help that the roots of American liberalism ultimately penetrated Western Europe and greatly accelerated its demise.

    • Clytemnestra57,

      A good comment. I have read that during the Mexican Revolution against Spain in the 19th century that most of the Indians were on the side of the Spanish Monarchy against the mostly mestizo rebels. In Mexico I generally like the Indians. Mestizos vary.

      The USA is a safety valve for Mexico since many potential troublemakers end up north of the border.

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