The Confederation of Dixie

by on March 20, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Most of the western, central, and southern Virginia counties simply walked away from Richmond when the capital ran out of the money to pay the soldiers and police it took to keep them in line. Gaining their freedom was not that simple though. Many disagreed with the idea, and in an age of convenient kitchen chemicals and commercial fireworks, those disagreements could become explosive. Those counties that broke with Richmond soon found themselves targeted by arsonists and worse. The military called it asymmetrical warfare. The counties trying to survive the end of civilization as they knew it called them terror attacks.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on March 19, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Richmond’s turn as the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia came to an end with a whimper, not a roar. Richmond had enforced ruinous taxes on their business sector and plundered the public treasuries to fund pet political projects for decades. Federal bailouts funded by more prosperous States kept them afloat, but the Second Great Depression cut that funding source off at the knees. The last vestiges of their public law enforcement agencies finally collapsed, leaving the city in the hands of private security forces, gangs, and drug cartels. Though it was often difficult to differentiate them from each other. Violence spiked throughout Richmond and the surrounding metro areas, and many people began leaving for safer areas. Those who could not leave watched the cities fall into another cycle of shootings, lootings, and burnings.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on March 18, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Richmond was the center of power in the Commonwealth of Virginia before the Second Great Depression. Before the politicians of the day took the final steps that herald the ends of empires. They thought their word was law, and they thought they could win if they silenced their opposition once and for all. They thought they could arrest or kill enough of the peons to quell the others. As is often the case with those like them, they did not see the end before it came. It was no grand Hollywood movie about resistance overthrowing the oppressors. It was far more mundane an end. The politicians of Richmond ran out of money, and when they could no longer buy loyalty, those they had bought went elsewhere in search of a paycheck. Richmond survived the chaos that followed, but its influence in the affairs of Virginia did not.

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The Confederation of Dixie

by on March 17, 2021 at 12:01 am
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The Second Great Depression saw the Commonwealth of Virginia in desperate times. Richmond had long since been taken over by those far more loyal to Washington D.C. than to Virginia, and they did not take well to any who refused to bend the knee to the Federal government. That is why modern Virginians call it the Second Civil War. But it takes a great deal of money to keep a restive population under control, and the Feds ran out. They could print as much as they wanted to, but the almighty dollar’s buying power decreased to the level of a Third World Banana Republic. Which America had been performing an excellent imitation of in previous years. When the dollar crashed, the economy collapsed, and Richmond lost the ability to enforce Federal will on the many counties far from the capital. It was the beginning of the end for Richmond.

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One Year Later

by on March 16, 2021 at 12:01 am
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One year ago, the lockdowns began. Months later, the BLM and antifa protests began to fill the streets with their protests against the police and the government in general. We watched government buildings attacked on a nightly basis for months. We watched some of them burn, while barricades surrounded others as explosions lit the street and sky. We watched businesses looted and people shot dead on a nightly basis. We watched entire neighborhoods burned down until many of our cities looked like Third World Countries in the midst of civil wars. Things quieted down when the media declared Biden the winner of the Presidential election. But now they are back at it again, attacking the Federal courthouse in Portland. The more things change, the more they stay the same. One year later, the barricades are back up again.

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