Tag: Zombies

• The GOP And The Neo-Confederacy

  The American Civil War is proof. It’s no good winning a war if you’re going to lose the peace that follows. While the North got the war’s “W” in real time, the Confederacy, in the long term, got the “W” that counts. Reconstruction should have begun to undo slavery’s myriad harms – to the slaves…

  A L Katz

  January 21, 2024

  Culture, Fascism, Racism, Republicanism, Rule of Law, Slavery

  American Civil War, American South, Appomattox, Cancer, Dixiecrats, Heather Cox Richardson, Nixon’s Southern Strategy, Parasitic wasps, Reconstruction, Slavery, Zombies

• Slavery Is A Zombie That Won’t Die

  Any “original sins” Eve may have committed were literary. America’s original sin — slavery — was absolutely for real. America remains a great idea thus far poorly executed. We’re an experiment in human self government going through a very rough patch because of a design flaw at the beginning. The white, Christian, land-owning men who…

  A L Katz

  October 12, 2021

  Culture, Freedom, Republicanism, Slavery, The Nature of Evil, Trump

  All Men Are Created Equal, Confederacy, Crony Capitalism, Deal With The Devil, E Pluribus Unum, Original Sin, Slavery, Stolen Labor, Zombies

• I Want The Beginning Of The Biden-Harris Administration To Feel Like The END Of A “Godfather” Movie

  I don’t recall any movie doing this before Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” did it — that climax where the family gets back into the game with one, bold strike at all their enemies at once. In this case Michael Corleone’s gutsy move forces the other five families — shocked by the tactical balls, precision…

  A L Katz

  December 17, 2020

  Barack Obama, Bill Barr, Election 2016, Election 2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Mitch McConnell, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  Bill Barr, Corruption, Department Of Justice, Francis Ford Coppola, Fredo, Michael Corleone, Most Corrupt POTUS Ever, The Godfather, The Godfather Part Two, Zombies