Born Fighting for the Wrong Side: the Confederacy of Dumbasses

Jim Webb is running for president or at least sniffing around in that direction. I think he's okay but his Scots-Irish chauvinism worries me. This group he extols is more belligerent, backward, bigoted and servile than any other American subgroup. 

I don't doubt that Webb is personally above this but the current status quo, in which the Scots-Irish pseudo-southern cabal has leveraged its way into political dominance, must go. We have had a quiet coup in America, with bigots and dumbasses now in charge. 

And the Scots-Irish have no history of political involvement other than in minority rule and exploitation, first in Northern Ireland and then in America. They were the core of the Confederacy more so than any other group and make undeniably great cannon fodder.

They're wonderful to have around when you need stupid people to die in a hopeless, immoral war, but they have turned America into this, another doomed empire and lost cause. This was not supposed to be our destiny. Webb should run for vice-president instead. 

Just declare for that, I mean, and set a cool precedent by acknowledging his appropriate role, as an underling to a Democratic or even Republican president. He can then carry on in his tribe's tradition of unreasoning devotion to a cause irrespective of is merit.

But we need someone in charge who can reinvent America as it was intended to be, a nation of independent people who own their own government and understand that disenfranchising anyone else is the first step in seeing yourself disenfranchised.