Why are progressives
clamoring to remove many of America's mementos dedicated to the
Old South? Generations later, can remnants of Civil War Democrats
cause active psychological “harm”? That seems highly unlikely.
However, what's real is the
targeting of Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart and Jefferson Davis.
If that's the liberal
standard for destroying their icons, who has caused more recent
and lasting
damage than Barack
Obama? Therefore, isn't it logical for them to purge both
ancient
root and modern branch? Yet, fear not, President Obama's safe
from their revisionist historical pruning. It's only his antebellum
counterparts who find themselves on the chopping
block.
Let's pull some contextual
threads from this spidery progressive
web, shall we? Reportedly, Democrats in Alexandria, Virginia want
to rename a main thoroughfare, Jefferson Davis Highway. Also, they
want to move a statue on State Route 400 of a Confederate soldier,
“Appomattox,” to the comparable
obscurity of a nearby museum. Erected in 1889, is the presence of
this unarmed
Southerner—like the street named for the Confederacy's
president—suddenly noxious to the average
commuter? Do they trigger so much daily
trauma that they're right to nix them? Not to be outshone,
Fairfax County is embroiled in a two-year debate to strip Confederate
General Stuart's name from one of its most racially diverse high
schools. Their
dragnet is not local however, it's a
monstrosity cast widely across state
lines as far as Louisiana.
As the left's revisionist
hysteria is never satisfied, Stuart's famous
contemporary General Robert E. Lee is targeted in both places.
Atop
a pillar since 1884, his towering
figure was removed from its New
Orleans perch last Friday after 133 years. (His was not the first
to fall. On May 11th, the powers that be removed a statue from
the Jefferson Davis memorial there. On Saturday, a display—the word
“LOVE”—was found on its vacated platform.) Only time will
tell if his Virginia likeness—mutely astride his majestic horse in
Lee Park since 1924—will suffer the same “loving”
fate. As the land was specifically donated to showcase this
Southern soldier, is it right to unseat him after 93 years? What's
more horrible here, destroying the vestiges of progressives' 19th
century past or the wasteful
expenditure to taxpayers of $300,000 to do it?
Doesn't all history have a worthy place
simply because it
happened? How can eradicating the
lessons that shaped our collective cultural experience ever be
the “right” thing to do? Isn't the
mind-set to wipe clean the landscape—of old dignitaries'
names and harmless inanimate
objects—really a fascist
desire to ban ideas themselves? (Will these safe
space liberal “do-gooders” advocate “Fahrenheit
451”-style book burning next?) Obviously, their
predecessors' dual
stains of slavery and segregation—never
acknowledged or owned by them hereafter—are of lasting
shame. Well, frankly, they should be. Hence, their current
self-serving
agenda to simply airbrush monuments out of existence.
To this end, their go-to
narrative is one of distraction
and manipulation. To the muddleheaded, the
dishonest proclaim often repeated nonsense: America is “secretly
racist”! In the same vein as “Trump Derangement
Syndrome,” liberals have kind of a politically-motivated hysterical
blindness. What of the widespread
advancements since the 1950s and 1960s Civil Rights movements? A
prominent trend—the “black
is beautiful” paradigm shift of the '60s and '70s—doesn't
matter? Heck, these
naysayers don't even acknowledge the cultural
significance of the former occupant of the White House! So,
concrete facts of societal
progression are meaningless to them. Only their
deluded aim to erase transgenerational political sins.
Seriously, it's been 152 years since
the end of the Civil
War! Only misguided spendthrifts waste today's public funds to
“purify” the past. Obviously, historical
footnotes—like the name of a road or a school, or four
statues—have no magical power to corrupt anything of the now. What
relevance to the day-to-day life experience of Americans do they
really have? Very little, if any. In fact, their only intrinsic value
are as markers showing where America has been—and how truly
tolerant she has become!
Despite these ridiculous assertions,
racism is not infused in the bronze edifices resembling long-dead
Southerners. Likewise, it's not found
in the hearts of persons striving to preserve them either.
Interestingly, only Democrats'
self-hatred persists with the passage of time. That liberal
malady is seen in their psychological projection of guilt upon
the rest us whose ancestors never owned a slave. Clearly, that's a
problem better suited to the analyst's couch then the political
realm. (On a related note, can our country be correctly viewed as
innately “sexist” as Hillary
Clinton is the latest nominee of her party—and the winner of
the popular
vote?) All elements described above encapsulate the schizophrenic
thinking pervading every level of the Democratic Party.
In truth, tangible proof of America's
well-established—and ever-expanding—pattern of embracing and
celebrating
diversity is everywhere! What of commonplace interracial
marriage or the recent legalization of gay marriage? So, is it
fair to automatically demonize
a Republican simply for expressing a history-protecting impulse?
Virginia's firebrand GOP gubernatorial hopeful Corey Stewart recently
said:
“There’s all kinds of things that
offend people, but that [removal] doesn’t make it right. That
doesn’t make it so [fix the past]. This [the statue of Robert E.
Lee] is a part of our history; if you don’t like our history,
that’s too damn bad.”
Well, precisely. What's crystal clear
is the
Democrats have a cringeworthy history. Understandably, they're
desperate
to annihilate any reminders of the irrefutable
and indefensible. Chief among them is their sole ownership of two
infamous institutions: Virginia's antebellum past (read:
slaveholding) and white supremacy (read: creating the Ku
Klux Klan). As Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union, his
party has a duty to safeguard the other side's artifacts for
posterity. Without them as silent witnesses, falsely tarring
conservatives with their own ongoing record
of misdeeds becomes easy. If successful, all that would remain is
a nebulous war of words for progressives
to dominate. As George Santayana wisely advised: “Those who
cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Ironically,
destroying America's Confederate past also diminishes her
freedom-loving
future.
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