The Mad Dimension

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It tickles me that "Unite The Right" was Toby Young's slogan when he was trying to persuade UKIP to contest only safe Labour seats and give the Conservatives a free run everywhere else.

He was aghast at the impertinence of the common little people who failed to obey him.

But I digress.

Call it a midlife crisis, but the events in Charlottesville have made me rather pro-American. By all means, fight for the American heritage.

That heritage is that the bearers of Confederate flags and of swastikas are, if they are lucky, shot dead on the spot.

I am not a big fan of taking down statues and what have you.

But even the vilest of slave traders, of colonial mass murderers, and of oppressors of the working class at home, are not commemorated in the public squares of the United Kingdom for having taken up arms against the United Kingdom.

Under the aegis of Conservative-led councils in the South of England, there are still two streets named after Stalin, because he, too, never did that. Quite the reverse, in fact.

There is no more or less of a case for renaming those streets than there would be for renaming any number of others that bore witness to figures with oceans of blood on their hands.

None of that blood, however, was drawn from those who were fighting for this country.

The issue is not slavery, or the fact that Abraham Lincoln was also a racist. The issue is that the Confederates waged war upon the United States.

It is sincerely baffling that there are statues of them, and parks named after them, on the soil of the American Republic.

Those who are still waving their flag, like those still waving the flag of the Third Reich, need to be told, "You lost, get over it."

Although even the Nazis did not lose as long ago as 1865. Get over it, indeed.

Notice that swastika-wielding torch marches in Ukraine, of which we are all supposed to approve, are indistinguishable from this one in Virginia, other than being even more violent.

But in spite of everything, God Bless America.