Unite the Right Rally

It's 2017  people!  Your culture is not being taken away from you.  Your history is not being taken away.  The South lost the war and we have been struggling ever since to live up to the ideals in the Constitution and envisioned by President Lincoln.  This has been a struggle because we seem to be unwilling to accept that the South lost.  The cause has been romanticized into being about the rights of the individual, unless you are property, and the rights of the States over the Federal government.  Forgive me on this but there needs to be some unifying authority otherwise we cease to be a nation (a house divided cannot stand) and that authority is the Federal government.  The States are currently passing laws to get around the civil rights measures that were passed in the 1960's and the Federal government is doing nothing.  Based on what we witnessed over the weekend not only are the civil rights laws need the Federal government should be undoing what the States are doing. 

I don't know what's more frightening

I don't know what's more frightening privatizing the war in Afghanistan or the fact that we have a para-military group in the country that can deploy 5,000 troops to Afghanistan.  When I first read about this idea I could not believe it, I thought that it was fake news.  Then I saw that the ruling party is seriously considering the idea.  This might be the worst idea ever.  You cannot turn the fighting of a war that is being fought in the name of the United States over to mercenaries.  These mercenaries will not be accountable to the people of the United States or even to Congress, their loyalty will be to their employer.  And then there is the problem of a private fighting force that is at least 5,000 strong.  This is crazy to allow a potentially hostile army to operate within the country.  What happens if the CEO decides that he doesn't like the direction of the country and decides to takeover?  This country should not be outsourcing any of the tasks that this company is currently doing for us.  Instead we should be trying to figure out how to shut this company down. If we have no desire to fix the mess that we created in Afghanistan we should leave instead of privatizing the war because that will only make it worse.