The yellow banner hung there from a fence in front of an average house in a typical Southern small town. Its statement was simple, but it gave rise to many questions thereafter. “Proud American” was all it said. “Proud?” I pondered, “What is there to be proud about?” Hanging next to it was a Thin Blue Line American flag and an Alabama for Trump flag. I considered it all, and internally thought, “Surely there is nothing left to be proud about this country. We had an election stolen from us, we have a government that not only refuses to recognize the kingship of Christ, but openly blasphemes the true God. America spits in the face of the Creator in ever aspect, profaning marriage, and 63 million sacrificed babies. Now, we are to the point were we openly endorse children castrating themselves and claiming God made a mistake when He assigned their sex at conception. Should we, as small town Southerners, be proud of a country such as this?“
Throughout the last 70 years, really since after World War 2, America has risen from her very highest and now she’s at her absolute lowest. Within one generation (Baby Boomers), we’ve seen a shift so large that the only explanation has to be the judgment of God is upon this country. We’ve seen sodomy, once a criminal offense in radical states such as California and New York, being paraded in the streets of an average Southern town. At one time, a man dressing up in women’s clothing was something that would have had him locked in an insane asylum. We were a nation that had political leaders, on both sides, that once openly proclaimed Christ as Lord and now revolt against His law in the most godless way possible.
My pastor says that “Judgment is God giving you what you want.” A profound statement when you think about it. I, being reformed, believe in the total depravity of man; that if not for the hand of God, so go I into destruction and depraved sin. We see God giving them over to debased minds all around in the universities. We also turn to look at our rulers, many of them sexually depraved, and users of witchcraft (see Podesta emails), rewarding evil and punishing the righteous. John Calvin said it best with, “When God seeks to judge a nation He gives them wicked rulers.” How can this be any more clear than the current level of clowns we have ruling this country? In November, we saw in real time a hostile take over of this country. It only further solidified the argument that our vote doesn’t actual matter in the grand scheme if things, at least not at the federal level. We now have a grand untouchable crime syndicate in charge of the entire federal apparatus.
Is this something we, as Southerners, should be proud of?
One thing that is (still) great about America is the genuinely different and native cultures in the United States. From literal sea to shining sea you can encounter a myriad of different cultures. Even from neighboring states, you can see distinct differences, from Christian denominations to the type of BBQ sauce. America isn’t a typical country with a homogeneous society. We have an interesting mix of Anglos, Celts, Germans, and various other European ethnic groups. What we’ve done is something very unique in world history. We’ve brought tribes from nearly every corner of the world and created varied new identities under the umbrella of “American,” but is it necessarily a healthy thing?
Instead of taking the macro view, let’s just zoom in to the South. We, Southern men (and women), have lost our identity. We’ve been transformed into this amalgamation of just being “American.” Before the War of North Aggression, most Southern men (and Yankees, for that matter) wouldn’t have identified as “American,” but rather from their native state. Our pride was rooted in a more local and tangible identity. Our people were proud of their state’s accomplishments, along with the unique and beautiful traditions and cultures native to those areas. What traditions or values identifies with modern “American”? A man from Sacramento might proudly declare, “Keeping the right for a woman to choose” is an American value. A man from Montgomery, Alabama would likely reply with, “We ought not murder children inside the womb.”
How are these views compatible? Where are the identifying marks? How can a house divided stand? More importantly, why should it stand?
As Southerners, we must be careful in our type of pride. The Scripture teaches us that “pride goes before the fall.” There is nothing wrong with having a sense of pride in achievements, or even how the Lord has blessed you. Maybe He’s blessed you to live in a beautiful Southern state, or blessed you with a house full of children. By all means, take pride in them, but keep this pride in its proper place. Pride is what we find value in external to ourselves. Therefore, we need to find our value in the only external source that is unchanging. If we find our value in a fractured, ever-changing entity (like modern America), we risk setting this value on shaky ground. If our value is rooted in modern America, this value (our pride) is worthless.
We can’t live in denial of this reality.
Southern man, set your sights locally and take pride in what God has given you. You owe no pride in modern America.
-By Dixie Anon
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.
Good article, and good advice.
I once got into a heated argument (over the phone) with one of my elder cousins, who took direct and extreme issue with my statement to him essentially stating that ‘you and I have a Christian duty to disobey, or at least ignore, certain laws which are immoral on their face.’
His having previously been in law enforcement no doubt influenced his ability to discern between righteous and unrighteous law, but that didn’t of course matter to me. My concern was with the … stupidity that conflated the two. At his highest emotional state during the ‘conversation,’ he kept reiterating that, “It’s. The. F*cking. Law!” Once I finally was able to get him calmed down, I simply asked of him (knowing of course aforehand in how high esteem he held the ‘founding fathers,’ theoretically, at least), ‘so, the founding fathers, lawbreakers or no?’ His instantaneous answer was, “hell no!; they were great, God-fearing men!” “Be that as it may,” I retorted, “I beg differ with you on the matter of whether or not they were lawbreakers.” “Indeed,” I continued, “the chief of lawbreakers they were; read their own accountings of their own actions if you don’t believe me.”
After a pause of maybe 15 seconds, my cousin-interlocutor replied, “well, all’s I am saying is that if you’re going to defy the law, then you had better be prepared to face the consequences.” I of course had iterated nothing contrary to this assertion during the entirety of the conversation in the first place, and pointed that fact out to him immediately after he made the point. The sheer stupidity of what he originally said was all I was getting about in any case, and he understood it (and felt like the shitheel he had been during our conversation) when all was said and done.
The only “pride” I take in being “American,” with deep and abiding roots in its southland, is the “pride” I derive from following in the footsteps of my forbears, who dared to ignore immoral laws as well as the dumbassery immoral governors. The Scripture passage you cite in the article declares, more broadly, that “pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before the fall.” The “haughty spirit” part is really what the passage is getting about, not “pride” in one’s heritage per se. Indeed, I can make a good argument that the lack of pride in one’s heritage is as much the impetus for the fall of a once great people as its counterpart, and cite several authorities on the subject in so-doing…
Thanks for posting this. From time to time that Lee Greenwood song pops into my head and I feel no connection to that song.
American lost all meaning 200 years ago when the Constitution was done away with and they imported hordes of people to invade our home. It has always been a source of confusion and conflicting feelings. We are Americans and are proud of it, the problem is that most of the people that claim that are not or ever will be. Its identity theft.
I find its a waste of time talking to law enforcement about anything. They are low level thugs for the most part and have never turned down an offer of power and protection in way of bribe for doing whatever they are told to. In Kentucky they just passed a law making it illegal to insult police. Don’t waste your time on them, the time of them being some kind of police and not just an enforcement arm of petty tyrants is long gone. They know what they are.
As a Law Enforcement Officer I have to both agree with the post and Mr. Morris comment. I have recently found myself totally repulsed when we have to say the pledge of allegiance. I stand there with my hand over my heart as to not bring attention to myself but the words do not enter these lips. While it is being said by the people around me who I believe to be too ignorant on what it means and what they are actually pledging their allegiance too I caint help but think of the oath that my grandfathers were forced to say just so they can go back home and try to rebuild what Sherman had burnt.
Don’t paint all LEOs with the same broad brush. In my area there have been many of us who have been doxxed and fired from our jobs due to the love of Dixie that we have with in our hearts. There are many LEOs who have not had their eyes open just yet but I have hope that they will come to the light. There are also some who are Scalawags or brainwashed to believe what good ole Uncle Sam has forced in their heads.
Here’s to hoping and praying that our Southern Brothers come to the light as the truth of what has happened to us in the past and what continues to occur to us in the present is revealed to them.
Hello, Mike.
I was just browsing through some of the recent ID articles and comments when I saw your comment above a few minutes ago. I think it was maybe two years ago when one of our contributors wrote and published an article here in which he advised against our (meaning the entire ID readership and its writers) being overly harsh towards LEOs and painting them all with the same broad brush. I remember that I commented to the article, and was very much in agreement with what he had said. “Sometimes I worry,” I wrote, “that I’m being overly harsh towards law enforcement officers and perhaps give the impression I’m painting them all with the same broad brush.” Or something very close to that. One reason I worry about this is because I actually know quite a few LEOs, and their characters are not all bad, as you rightly state; and, indeed, some of them are actually pretty great guys. I can’t say as much for the female officers I know, but that’s another story entirely.
When I mentioned my elder cousin in the above comment, I failed to mention that he has come a long way since then in his thinking. He still has a ways to go (but don’t we all, really?), but I actually give him a lot of credit for being willing to listen and to learn from someone (me, and others) who is simply a lot more informed on our history and so on than he is. One of his great ‘vices’ is that he simply does not read books, and certainly not old books. It isn’t that he is opposed to the ‘Lost Cause’ mythology (I don’t mean mythology in a bad sense, btw) per se; it is simply, and as I said, that he doesn’t read books and therefore only knows what he’s told. That is where I often come in and correct his misunderstanding of what actually happened, and why. He’ll sometimes resist what I’m saying, but he knows I know what I’m talking about, and later down the road you’ll hear him telling others what I had informed him of not two months before. He sometimes forgets where he’s gotten certain bits of information, and will repeat back to me, six months later, what he’d learned from me for the very first time six months before. It’s actually kind of funny. And gratifying. Because, you see, I’m not after credit or accolades, I just want people to hear “the rest of the story.” And if my cousin serves as a mouthpiece for that with people I’m likely to never come into contact with, well, hey, more power to him!
All of that said, I wouldn’t want to be in your profession and daily subjected to even listening to fellow officers pledging their allegiance to the American flag. When I go to high school sporting events, I always stand and face the flag during the playing of the National Anthem. If I happen to be wearing a hat or a ball cap, which I often am at these events, I remove it. I don’t, and never will again, hold my hand, nor my hat, over my heart. But I do stand erect and at attention, facing the flag as I said, mainly for the benefit of, and out of respect for, the ‘patriotic’ folk surrounding me. By and large they are ‘salt of the earth’ types who, like my cousin mentioned above, are just ignorant of what that flag really stands for.
Lots and lots of Americans (and perhaps even lots of readers of ID, I don’t know) have probably never heard of the “ironclad oath,” and the history surrounding it. I should probably write an article about it sometime in the near future.
God bless you, sir. And I hope that you will be able to nudge your brothers in law enforcement in the right direction, and, at length, towards the knowledge of the truth.
I’m sorry you found offence, but I promise no more offence than when people have loaded weapons drawn on them and their family as a routine matter of course, or when they issue commands to grown men to obey as if dogs, or kick in the door to your home, murder the family pet as protocol and you are expected to docilely take every insult and infraction knowing full well that they, the law makers and the judges are all one monolithic force of oppression and tyranny. Their entire profession is an affront to liberty and there can be no freedom as long as they exist, their existence precludes freedom or even just basic manhood. If you think Washington would have stood there impotent while his wife was patted down after being thrown to the ground while firearms were pointed at her head and commands were screamed at her and his family, then you are sadly mistaken. Nothing has changed except the servility of the weak American male.
We must learn our lesson from the RINO “get tough on crime” power grab from the 80’s and 90’s. Now it is virtually impossible for me to ever talk to people about liberty while defending police, they are juxtaposed right down the line and they are universally understood to be a problem, the problem in fact, without them then the laws of our oppressers are just words on paper.
The justice system of those who invaded our home is illegitimate and so are those who enforce their decrees at gunpoint.
By the way, they will be who shows up with a red flag warrant to your home where your family lays their heads. They will execute you and your family members on a whim and have done so many times already without a single fear of reprisal, and rightfully so, what do they have to fear? They do not serve us, they are loyal to whoever pays them and that ain’t us.
Republicans militarized the police and by now go should know the party of Lincoln does nothing in the name of liberty, it was done to create the standing army that we were warned to never allow to exist, which now blankets every blade of grass and jurisdictions are a long gone joke, they are monolithic. Boomers getting on TV and Radio while screaming lock everyone up and throw away the key cost us more people than could ever be estimated. No matter your leanings to defend them is to invite failure, they have become universally indefensible and that is nobody’s fault but their own.
I don’t know how many videos of “thin blue line” supporters getting dominated by them publicly have to be shown before it can be more clear who they serve.