Remember all those fights about removing historical statues?

Of course you do, since the battles continue to this day. The issue flares up every once in a while, particularly when Democrats want to get their voters fired up against the evil American system of government, which is almost always.

One big battle took place during the Trump administration, and Trump dismissed the (largely successful) movement to remove statues and building names that glorified members of the Confederacy.

Trump had a simple argument: wiping away these statues and references to the Confederacy had nothing to do with confronting America’s racist past, and everything to do with wiping away American history as a whole. Trump predicted that Washington and Jefferson were next on the chopping block because they, too, were slaveholders.

Liberals screamed bloody murder, denying that they were engaged in such a nefarious plot. Washington and Jefferson weren’t comparable to Confederates (they aren’t, either), so no worries.

As is so often the case, Trump lost the battle but proved to be right.

remember when trump predicted exactly this would happen and the entire narrative industry published articles in unison assuring us it definitely wouldn’t happen? https://t.co/2OvpFYbuHq pic.twitter.com/XKhCn038B3

— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) September 19, 2023

Yeah, well, we all knew that the real target was undermining American history. WTF did you think they meant when they kept on babbling about “systemic racism?” That the Constitution is A-OK, and we just need a few tweaks in society?

As New York City cripples under monumental budget cuts due to a migrant crisis straining public resources, the city council is planning to consider a series of measures that would, among other things, remove statues of major historical figures like George Washington and create a reparations task force.

The items are included in New York City’s council agenda for Tuesday, September 19, 2023. The council’s Cultural Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing on a measure to remove works of art on city property that “depict a person who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery, or who participated in systemic crimes against indigenous peoples or other crimes against humanity.”

Nobody believed that all of America’s heroes weren’t on the chopping block, and it wasn’t the activists who claimed they weren’t coming after all of American history–it was their so-called “moderate” supporters who cleared the political path. The communists leading the pack on rewriting American history are pretty clear about their goals; it is the politicians and MSM figures who lie to the American people who do their dirty work.

America’s history is filled with injustice, and American history courses should unflinchingly explore the who, what, when, where, and how of both the good and the bad in our history. It is also the case that no country has done more to spread the gospel of democracy and liberty than the US and that there is a reason that the majority of the world’s population when asked, would love to live here. Have you noticed what is happening at our borders?

The flow of humanity is toward the US, not outward. And they aren’t coming here to be enslaved.

The fatal flaw in the “critical theory” school of interpreting history is its blindness to human nature and genuine history; it tells a political/ideological story instead of exploring the complexity of historical realities.

Do a deep dive into any region’s history, any people’s past, and any culture and you will find a vast fund of good and bad. The balance of good vs. bad varies somewhat, but I dare you to find moral purity in any. The African slave trade was an invention of Africans. The Scandanavians, so admired today, exported Vikings to the world, and if you think they were nice guys I have some news for you.

Mongolia? Ever heard of Genghis Kahn?

And of course, the culture and economic system admired so much by the Left, socialism, has left in its wake poverty, misery, and 100,000,000 dead in its wake.

What makes America so great is that our aspirations have led us to build a more just society over time, with more liberty and opportunity than any prior civilization. The Left is determined to extinguish that, and one of their tools is rewriting history.

Even though this is true, the Leftists aren’t the real problem: it is the so-called “moderates” who keep defending the Leftist project and lying to shield the Left from criticism. The Left tends to be self-discrediting, so it is our Elites who make their success possible. It is they who must be discredited first.