The Mob: The lawless arm of the Democratic Party/caption
How can the removal (or destruction) of any external object purge the human psyche of a disgraceful mind-set like racism?
Recall that all history is a series of discrete events locked in time: unchanging and unalterable. Therefore todays revisionist fervor directed at Americas antebellum past is misguided. Like amber dating back 100 million years to the mid-Cretaceous period (proving Tyrannosaurus rex had bird-like feathers) would it be right to destroy a specimen simply because the subject could evoke some existential human dread of prehistoric monsters? An absurd example that makes an important point: Confederate statuary like dinosaur bones only demonstrate the existence of a thing. Yet meaning is inherently fluid: applied in the now by the living.
To eradicate historical artifacts in the name of progressives progress" is jackbooted fascism. Its the real-life manifestation of George Orwells 1984". Specifically Big Brother is the identity politics-obsessed Democratic Party. Their creature is the violently inflamed street mob: faceless mindless and everywhere. One prominent example is Black Lives Matter who on August 29 2015 publicly proclaimed Pigs cops in a blanket fry em like bacon." On CNN this lawless group was praised by Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson who said Wednesday The people that we claim Black Lives Matter the antifa movement and so on are interested in preserving the fabric of America." So exactly how does a cop-killing advocacy group preserve" American society?
Democrats demonize todays law enforcement officerssimply for wearing a uniform (and perhaps carrying a gun)as indiscriminately as long-dead American icons. Telling examples are found in the murder capital of Chicago. Instead of spotlighting the skyrocketing death toll the aggrieved and clueless like Bishop James Dukes pastor of the Liberation Christian Center has asked the mayors office to remove monuments to two U.S. presidents including Founding Father George Washington. Even worse a Chicagoean malcontent has vandalized a giant bust of Abraham Lincolnour slavery-abolishing 16th presidentwith a flammable spray. Thusly President Trumps Thursday Tweet is prescient Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jacksonwhos next Washington Jefferson? So foolish." Whats foolish is in the name of tolerance" the intolerant constantly attack the undeserving then as now as racist" bogeymen.
Anti-American anarchists populating the left thrive by causing chaos and disruption. Their whack-a-mole strategy is based on a fundamental flaw of reasoning: that the inanimateespecially what they label triggering symbolscan be blamed for flawed human choices that constantly mold society. Hence their fascist impulses to prohibit whats objectionable only to them: guns cops or Confederate figures. Yet none of these groupings automatically cause problems. In truth almost anything physical can be weaponized. For instance would Virginia be wise to ban all cars because one crazed individual James Alex Fields Jr. 20 killed Charlottesville resident Heather Heyer 32 with his silver Dodge Challenger?
What plagues our culture are Democrats who exploit various tragedies for their own divisive political ends. They dont see the evolved reality of the melting pot that is 21st century America. For them and their followers individual responsibility is nonexistent. Instead liberals promote victimhood narrativeseagerly embraced by those easily manipulated by fictional offensesto incite actual violence.
Simply as a record history deserves to be protected because all men are fallible and wrongdoers exist in every age. The mistake our generation is making is focusing on them instead of their hateful modern-day equivalents.
David L. Hunter is an Associate Editor at Capitol Hill Outsider. Hes on Twitter and blogs at davidlhunter.blogspot.com. He is published in The Washington Post The Washington Times FrontPage Mag and extensively in Patriot Post Canada Free Press and American Thinker.