Normally, the month of June is more annoying than horrific for me, thanks to almost every major company tripping over themselves to demonstrate their admiration for “gay pride.” The unrelenting summer heat doesn’t make things much better. But, June of 2020 was something much worse as I have seen my country take hits I never thought possible. The Confederate emblem is gone from the Mississippi state flag, which will likely mean the removal of state flags based on the First National flag, like Georgia, will be targeted next.
I’ve already seen the beginnings of that campaign. Dixie Beer will be renamed soon and Confederate statues are coming down all over Dixie, with localities openly disobeying laws designed to protect Confederate memorials, including in Alabama. And, while it still remains on Prime as of this writing, Amazon is considering pulling The Dukes of Hazzard. If they do so, the show will now become impossible to watch unless you already bought the DVDs; it hasn’t been on television since 2015 and the DVDs have become difficult to find and are very expensive. I’ve seen all of this cheered on by native, albeit totally reconstructed, Dixians. Yes, Yankee immigration in Dixie is an issue, but it is not the totality of our problems either, some of this is homegrown. June of 2020 was an incredibly blackpilling month, it was the month I saw almost everything I love and hold dear attacked.
But through it all, it also gave me time to think and reflect upon what we call ourselves – “rebels.” The idea of being a rebel and holding it as a badge of honor has long been a part of our culture- i.e. “Johnny Reb,” “the rebel flag,” “rebel pride” and so on. But, let’s stop and think about what the life of a rebel is actually like. As someone who opposes the status quo, they are despised by the establishment. And, this does not just mean the government either, but it can also mean society at large. To be rebel, and I mean an actual rebel not a “rebel” in the entertainment industry, you will be considered persona non grata and a threat to the majority.
Only a select few see a rebel as a visionary during their lifetime. If any sort of mass acceptance is to come, it only comes towards the end of the rebel’s life, if at all. When Padraig Pearse was shot by British soldiers for his part in the Easter Rising, he was viewed as a lunatic. Not just by Englishmen either, but by the majority of Irishmen. It was only after he died did he gain any sort of mass acceptance as a martyr for Irish freedom. At best, a rebel will forever be on the edge of financial ruin. At worst, they may be killed and will only be thought of as a martyr at the time of their death.
If we are to be rebels, we must understand what this means – to be hated in our own time, including by those we consider our own. It is not an easy experience, but it is also a far more realistic one. The “rebel” that people like in their own time is an invention of Hollywood. Someone like Fonzie, played by the diminutive Henry Winkler, is presented as “cool” because he isn’t an actual threat to the establishment. Actual rebels do not have that luxury. Rebels are marginalized and demonized, they are only romanticized by their admirers and usually after they are victorious or crushed.
To be a Southern rebel, it will no longer mean being a successful rocker like Ronnie Van Zant and have millions of adoring fans. It will no longer mean being admired as a great general like Robert E Lee. Instead, it will mean that you’re always one mistake away from being fired from your job. Even if you own your own business, it will mean the constant threat of boycotts or even angry mobs storming your company to harass you. The Dissident Right rebel, Southern or otherwise, will be under constant threat from the Establishment and its toadies. And, make note that a rebel’s family is always in danger, too.
To think that we could be driven underground in Dixie is depressing, and it is made all the worse by how often it will be native Dixians doing this, all to eager to prove they are not like “those people” to the new order. We’ve seen a preview of what is to come since 2015 and it has been amplified greatly. Baring divine intervention, it is only going to get worse in the short term, much worse.
But, we must not allow ourselves to be seduced by the siren call of short-term thinking. We’re in this for the long term. It took the Christians of Spain and Portugal 770 years to retake their land, so lose not hope. However, we must remain sober minded. We are rebels, and it means we won’t be “cool” and any sort of romanticism will only be applied to us after we’re gone. Let the manufactured rebels of Hollywood and approved social media concern themselves about being “cool,” we’re concerned about Dixie and our people.
-By Harmonica
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
Excellent post. You wrote:
I’ve written any number of times that this is one of the very few ways in which the majority is entertaining a rational concern. And by “rational” I just mean that they reason correctly from cause to effect; that their conclusions mostly follow from their premises.
That we are considered a threat to them should not surprise us at all because we *are* in fact a threat to them and their way of life. I could give dozens of examples of what I mean, but take homeschooling as one prime example. Which of course not all of us do, but virtually all of us support and defend as a legitimate alternative to public schooling. If homeschooling became a mass movement, or anything approaching a mass movement, it would present a very real threat to the “education” industrial complex, to the cushy jobs and retirement packages of its teachers and administrators, and so on and so forth. Which of course would have even broader implications, such as forcing many women out of the workplace and back into their homes where they belong.
There is a very good reason that when, e.g., a given school takes too many “snow days” off, a large element of the parents (usually the mothers, but the dads too sometimes when dad is actually around) almost invariably begin to have conniption fits about it, demanding the schools be re-opened immediately and in spite of the dangers of doing so to everyone concerned, including their own children. They of course couch this in terms that they apparently think the rest of us are stupid enough to buy into, like concerns for their kid’s getting behind on his lessons and whatnot, but of course this is just a facade; they want their kids back in school because having them at home and/or having to make arrangements for their care disrupts their routine. This is also why these same parents are perfectly fine with the schools re-opening during what they think is a real Pandemic and sending their kids into these places donning masks with enforced “social distancing.” All of which applies to the Charter School movement, the Private Christian School movement, and etc., with one difference – people – even stupid people – are more or less aware that private and charter schools mostly go along with the program of public education, whereas homeschoolers not s’much. And of course that private and charter schools employ teachers and admins as well.
Another good example of this, not the same thing but related, is our stubborn insistence on re-establishing patriarchy and the traditional family. Imagine for a moment the number of “social worker” jobs that would end in an instant – many of which, again, are done by women – if and when patriarchy and the stability of the nuclear family ever makes a comeback on this continent. It is therefore in the direct interest of these so called “social workers” to make damn sure that patriarchy and the traditional family *never* make a comeback on this continent and to snuff the movement out the very instant it presents what they perceive as a very real threat to their illicit livelihoods.
I could go on and on about threats we pose to the pharmaceutical industry, the abortion industry, and all sorts of ‘make work’ agencies within every state, North and south, east and west alike. But the point, again, is that the majority have it right in this particular case; they rightly reason that we Rebels, if ever our ideas are allowed to have a fair hearing, present a real and long term threat to their way of life and living.
Yes, it will take a while, and providence may not smile on us, but we must be faithful.
@Father Dabney…
Wasn’t it Voltaire?; who said, ‘Providence smiles on those with the biggest battalions.’
A sentiment that your namesake would most heartily agree with.
“As regards Providence, he cannot shake off the prejudice that in war, God is on the side of the big battalions, which at present are in the enemy’s camp.”
– Eduard Zeller
Sobering and very true. We do this though because we must and because many cannot. It’s easy to forget many cannot bear the burden which we have chosen to shoulder.
As a Catholic, I’m concerned by the term “rebel” when considered in a political sense, but in a cultural sense, its probably ok. I’d prefer the term, “loyalist”. I think thats what the Confederacy was. From reading J. Davis’s excellent “doctrine of states rights” it seems like the confederacy is the real US.
I don’t see why there couldnt be a loyalist government formed. A loyalist army, to stop the progressive, liberal, globalist, suicidal rebels that are swarming us.
“I’ve seen all of this cheered on by native, albeit totally reconstructed, Dixians. Yes, Yankee immigration in Dixie is an issue, but it is not the totality of our problems either, some of this is homegrown. ”
I was dismayed to find out that many of the (D) pols who are up to no good (Doug Jones, Ralph Northam) are natives, or at least were born in the states they supposedly represent…