The Knights of the Golden Circle were members of a clandestine network that flourished in the red states from the time of the Civil War into the 20th century. John Wilkes Boothe was a member. They dreamed of an empire stretching from Florida to Mexico, Central America, Venezuela and Cuba. The Golden Circle would've controlled the wealth of a domain producing tobacco, sugar, coffee, oil and cotton, using slave labor. Did their dream die with them or have the Confederate Corporations of America realized that vision?
The Republican Party reshaped itself after Nixon took office in order to ensure perpetual control of American politics. When American industry lost its leading edge after the Vietnam War, right wing ideologues saw how traditional Democratic voters (Catholic, lower-middle class, blue collar) fleeing the Rust Belt for the South and West could be co-opted by focusing on social issues that still haunt us--women's rights, the breakdown of traditional family and religion. The result is a political climate that resembles Franco's Spain in the late1930's: agrarian, ex-urban/suburban, anti-industrial, nationalistic, and ruled by a Bourbon mentality that any citizen of the old Confederacy would have recognized immediately.
This is not about race. This is about money. This is about preserving the Union and the rule of law. Our two-tier economy has produced an outcome worse than what would've resulted if the South had won in 1865. If we're all enslaved by eternal bank debt that will never be repaid, the result isn't a replay of the Civil War; it's more insidious and far worse. It's a return to Roman feudalism.
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