Tearing down statues has become the latest nihilistic pleasure in America. Never mind legal process, property ownership, and democratic decision. Unthinking mobs with little knowledge and less judgment wander America’s streets claiming the mandate of heaven to violently impose wokedom upon the rest of us.
The assault on Confederate figures goes without saying, even though most Northerners were equally racist and Abraham Lincoln originally intended to preserve slavery, calling out the troops only to invade the southern states and maintain the union, irrespective of the human cost. The idea that people, like Robert E. Lee, could genuinely feel loyalty to their states that trumped nationalism, and abhor the willingness of Washington to use military force to subjugate people seeking to change their political system, is well beyond the thought processes of the typical statue Stalinist.
Of course, the Founders were next. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington have suffered humiliating falls. They were slaveowners, like so many others at the time. Never mind their accomplishments, however. Which included forming a nation and writing a Constitution that set the stage for eliminating slavery, something they understood to be necessary but also viewed as politically unattainable at the time. Even Ulysses S. Grant became a target. One suspects that many of the happy destroyers thought he was a Confederate. After all, another uniform, another horse, another Civil War figure. What’s the difference? Why should it matter that he was the North’s commanding general, who did more than anyone else to end Southern military resistance? And, anyway, he was not perfect, as are today’s many social justice mobsters and poseurs.
Perfection is demanded by the Left’s roving gangs. This leaves a target-rich environment. Let me suggest some new targets. Without question, anything commemorating the sanctimonious, racist, anti-civil libertarian and warmonger Woodrow Wilson should be destroyed. (I would be happy to assist in this endeavor, with great pleasure!)
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