Peanut Politics

Georgia has been in the headlines quite a lot over the past year. As a Georgian, this is surprising to me since the state has largely been ignored on the national political scene. I remember wishing Georgia would be in more headlines and 2021 finally answered my wish. Last year started off with a double bomb for the GOP, as they lost the two senate seats in a heated runoff with a black heretic and a Jewish millennial. I decided not to give my vote to any candidate, but I will save that explanation for later. Short to say, this shocked many of my fellow Southerners who, like me, considered Georgia a hotbed of “conservatism.”

The truth is, I saw this coming a mile away. Unlike many, I’ve been watching the signs and storm clouds of liberalism since the election of Governor Nathan “Double” Deal in 2010. Georgia has been getting less and less Southern as immigrants from Central America, Asia and Yankeedom have flooded the state over the last two decades, particularly in Metro-Atlanta. Democrats have pointed this out proudly, as they gloated over winning the presidency in Georgia for the first time since 1992, then only for a Slick Willy of Arkansas. In reality, it should have been obvious as the state’s Republican Party has long prided itself on being all about Big Business and being “more modern” than our sister states in the Deep South, all who voted “red” in 2020.

Under the leadership of cowardly neocons, like former Governor Nathan Deal and the still powerful Speaker of the House David Ralston, the Georgia Republican Party has largely remained only as an agent for slowly turning Georgia “blue.” Both men have done everything they could to hamper socially conservative legislation that might’ve scared off foreign Big Business (including Hollywood). As of late, this gang of country clubbers have ensured that no religious liberty bill, nor a new anti-abortion bill, would be passed. On top of that, “Raw” Ralston managed to get hate crime legislation passed last year during the “Great Awokeing.”

It should be said that this crew hasn’t been left unopposed by Georgia patriots. In 2018, Governor Deal failed to see his Lt Governor Casey Cagle rise to the governorship. Cagle was infamously caught trash talking Georgia’s primary voters, basically insinuating that they were dumb hicks. Additionally, he made it clear he wanted Georgia to become the “Hollywood of the South.” While many have forgotten Kemp was originally endorsed by Trump in the GOP primary runoff that year, unlike Cagle, Kemp campaigned more as a tough country boy with his truck, guns, damning Hollywood and calling out Yankee Democrat money. Indeed, I voted for him, along with many others, to finally see Deal put in his place.

It’s here where things get interesting and complicated. In what was to be an easy primary election for Kemp in May, is now a sure runoff election. Kemp faces four candidates in the primary: Vernon Jones, Kandiss Taylor, Jonathan Garcia, and, finally, former U.S. Senator David Perdue. This race is interesting because it pits numerous wild card candidates and represents high stakes for not just Georgia but the South as a whole. All at the worst possible time, as the Georgia flag burner and would-be Stone Mountain exploder, Stacey Abrams, returns to Georgia for her revenge on us for rejecting her in 2018. 

To start off, we should discuss Garcia and Jones, both interesting characters whom I’ve personally met and listened to. Mr. Garcia is a Hispanic, pro-military guy from California who fled the state’s leftwing hell hole and den of degeneracy. He describes it this way and has gone out to condemn California’s lunacy and crime. While I may get flack for this, due to him not being a Southerner, he seems like a decent fellow who could make for a good governor. Unfortunately, as someone who’s never ran a race before, he’s been unable to really gain a following outside some local areas. He’s also hurt by not having the best speaking skills. I like the man but will not be backing him due to a better candidate option. 

Second, you have Vernon Jones. As someone who has been following Georgia politics for a long time, I was shocked to see how quickly he gained support following his entry into the race. Jones has been a lifelong Democrat and largely hateful toward Southern monuments and even helped remove our old 1956 flag. Jones, however, to his credit (or discredit) has been regarded as a “conservative Democrat.”  He’s been pro-gun, anti-homosexual and largely anti-immigration during his rise to being a state representative in 2016. However, he’s a black man with skeletons in his closet from reports of anti-white discrimination to homosexuality, albeit the latter is still unproven. 

My personal speculation is that Jones is a smart man who saw a perfect opportunity to jump ship from the Democrats with the election fall out in 2020 and 2021. He made a quick stand for Trump claiming the election was stolen in Georgia. He was able to quickly gain steam against Kemp via Trump, rallying Trump’s supporters in North Georgia. My guess is this was a tactical move by Jones who realized his neck would soon be on the chopping block if he remained in the Democratic Party. After all, and as stated before, Georgia has been invaded by younger Yankees and Latinos who have their own interests. The Democratic Party of Georgia, since the end of the 1990s, has largely been blacks who have been here since the antebellum period. Nowadays, Jones is considered a dinosaur, as young urbanites and mentally ill weirdos fill the ranks of the Georgia Democratic Party. Likewise, they would have canceled him eventually due to his prior stances. With the feud between Kemp and Trump, Jones saw the perfect opportunity to change teams and ride the wave of Dixie populism that got Kemp in office in 2018. Quite honestly, it was a good plan on his part. However, things changed in December of 2021. 

After being exiled from the DC Swamp by Georgia voters, David Purdue has finally reared his head again to challenge his former ally and friend, Kemp. Unlike the prior candidates mentioned, I despise Purdue. The man did everything possible to kiss the backside of corporations. He has long tried to increase migrant workers into the state and even encouraged Trump to do so, too. He’s gone out of his way to ship jobs overseas and did nothing to stop the visa cap of Indian tech workers from being raised in late 2020. He even refused to debate his rival Ossoff, who ended up beating him in the runoff. I know many Georgians who refused to vote for him when he backed legislation that changed Confederate names from military bases. He did this over Trump’s veto and tried to gaslight voters into thinking it was for “muh military spending,” despite the Pentagon being woke and dysfunctional. 

Despite all this, Trump rushed to endorse him as soon as Purdue announced his entry into the race. This is due to Trump’s childish personal feud with Kemp over the election. It’s this feud that changed the race from an easy win for Kemp to a battle for the soul of Georgia. Trump has chosen to back a corporate shill, and one rejected by Georgia voters from both sides of the aisle. For Trump, this is to punish Kemp for not putting his neck out for him. While I voted for Trump, along with many other Georgians, this comes as something of a betrayal, as his own mission of MAGA has been done better by another candidate in the race. Purdue is a corporate anti-Southern hack, the exact type of candidate that has caused Georgia to be in her current position. Purdue is a washed-up old country clubber who’s trying to save his ego by stabbing Kemp in the back. Make no mistake, Trump isn’t in this race to support a populist “MAGA” candidate but only one with name recognition enough to fulfill his personal vendetta. 

I, along with others of like mind, have decided to endorse small town, country woman Kandiss Taylor. While I’m not usually one to support a woman candidate given my Christian traditionalist views, I must say sometimes when men are too cowardly it may take a godly woman to take the sword up. Taylor is (and has been) a Trump supporter and a believer in the core message of Trumpism, which won him the hearts of Southerners and Heritage America in 2016. She has pledged to crush CRT in schools, as well as, pornography in the form of “sex education.” I’ve personally met Mrs. Taylor and heard her speak to a crowd of good Southern folks who clapped and cheered Georgia’s Boudicca. She has made it clear that she’s for “Morality Over Money.” A clear rejection of the neocon mindset spewed by cowards like Deal and Ralston. She’s made promises that she will support a new religious freedom bill, which the two prior quislings have opposed, end tranny school sports, stop child sex changes, and destroy abortion by any means necessary. She has also promised to crack down on Atlanta’s voter fraud. She’s a fighter that many of us have long prayed would help rescue Georgia from scoundrels. 

Taylor, of course, has her flaws and would no doubt be damned as “controlled opposition” for some of her cringe opinions on someone like MLK. I think I’d rather have a somewhat politically naïve, down to earth, Southern woman like Taylor than a lifelong politician like Kemp or Purdue. Given Kemp’s feud with Trump, support for removing the statue of Alexander Stephens with one of John Lewis, and lackluster show of conservative legislation in 2020, I don’t think he should be trusted for a second term. While he’s a somewhat decent governor, one who passed a heartbeat bill in 2019 to the chagrin of Hollywood and Speaker Ralston, he’s also been far outshined by DeSantis in Florida. There’s just too much at stake to allow for half-baked wimps like Kemp to remain in power.

While many black pilled folks will scoff at this, I encourage every Southerner to be invested in their state politics. These races should matter more to us than national ones. Much is on the line here in Georgia and that shouldn’t be understated. As Southern Nationalists, we should be very worried of Stacey Abrams winning the governorship of Georgia. It will be a massive black pill for Southerners across Dixie to see this happen. Don’t underestimate Miss Gap Tooth, as she represents the worst of this vile empire. For the last two years she’s toured New England and the left coast while building a war chest for her rematch with Kemp in 2022.

Make no mistake, Trump has only increased this likelihood by waging a war based on ego rather than ideology. We should seriously consider that Abrams will move against Confederate monuments in the state, pass vaccine mandates for college students, purge Georgia’s history from all public places, and, finally, destroy Stone Mountain. Despite my qualms with Kemp, and even Ralston, the GOP has somewhat held back the worst impulses from the Atlanta urbanites. After seeing Lee’s statue removed and other Confederate monuments purged across Dixie, we better not be fooled into thinking Stone Mountain is impervious to attack by these unhinged lunatics. 

They will turn Georgia into the next Virginia, but possibly even worse if allowed to win 2022. Losing Georgia to such a vile crew will be humiliating and demoralizing to Southern Nationalism. I still believe in my country, Georgia, not the Federal Empire. I also think we need to be ready to support a strong Southern candidate if we are to have any hope in becoming more like Florida, instead of Virginia.

-By Dixie Anon