Tweet of the Day

Bye, Confederate History Month. I haven't seen this many ppl cheering the side that lost since W's 1st inauguration. https://t.co/ImW3BTnWWc

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) May 1, 2016

We bid farewell to April and thus to the celebration of treason in defense of slavery. T.S. Eliot famously wrote that "April is the cruelest month," and it certainly is for those of us who have to watch the annual spectacle of racist Confederate flag-wavers and history revisionists who believe in their twisted minds that the right side lost the war.

Let's Celebrate Union Victory Month Instead

As we count down the final hours of Confederate History Month in some states like Virginia, Mississippi, etc., it bears repeating that the New Confederate Party / Rethuglican Party is doing its best to bring back those good old days. From Texas Gov. Rick "Hair" Perry's virtually seditious threat of secession to Gov. Robert "Blowdry Bob" McDonnell's lapse of memory when it comes to slavery, the New Confederate Party is ready to lead us into the 1860s.

Today's overtones of threatened violence, brandishing guns, denial of the democratically-elected government's legitimacy, and racism was also present leading up to the Civil War. Celebrating a "cause" that defended slavery and led to secession from the Union isn't patriotic at all. But tell that to today's New Confederate Party and you'll get blank stares at best, because they've largely become a party of the Old Confederacy. And they're on the wrong side of history as a result.