Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Conservative Cowards Are To Blame For Falling Statues
The Federalist ^ | 6/20/2020 | David Marcus

Posted on 06/20/2020 9:03:41 AM PDT by Signalman

There is no need to name names. The so-called conservatives who have been coddling mindless calls to destroy public art know who they are, so do the rest of us. These are the reasonable conservatives, the good ones, so ever careful no to be called racist. They had a compromise in mind because they always do. Throw the Confederate statues under the bus and we can save the rest. Well.

Friday night a statue of Ulysses S. Grant was toppled. Also the statue of a Catholic saint. Do you know who is to blame? It is not the hordes of progressives with ropes and chains; it is every conservative who thought those Jacobin lunatics could be appeased by just tearing down certain statues. It is a metaphor for the fecklessness of an American right too cowed to stand up for itself.

I get it. You see, these conservatives don’t want to be called names, I mean nobody enjoys that. But here’s the thing, after you write your little op-ed about how of course the evil Confederate statues have to come down they still think you’re a racist. They just think you are a spineless one.

George Orwell wrote a book once called “1984.” Let me know if this sounds familiar, “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day-by-day and minute-by-minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

Almost everyone who reads “1984” makes the same fundamental mistake. They think that they are Winston, the protagonist who senses the evil around him. It never occurs to most people that they are far more likely to be almost everyone else in the book. And the shallow conservatives, who thought by damning Robert E. Lee they could save Thomas Jefferson, are doing little more that suggesting that maybe two plus two equals four and a half, or something.

As the little fascist leftists like to say, “we see you.” We see the retweets from writers at Vox; we see the protestations that you are “one of the good ones.” And what are the wages of these sad genuflections? What did you get out of the deal? Are they going to come support you now that the Founding Fathers are up against the wall? Nope. They will throw you right up against the wall with them as you insist how reasonable you are.

To these fair-weather friends I have a message: this is your fault. And you were well warned. For years, those of us with the courage to open our eyes knew exactly where this was going. It was never about the confederacy, or slavery, or racism. It was always about destroying the very concept of America and replacing it with a Marxist utopia. That’s who you decided to compromise with.

What’s done is done, but it is not too late. Now that you have seen the miles the left takes when offered an inch you are welcome to get back in the fight for freedom. They burned you, made you look like fools. Be angry. Otherwise your silence is complicity with mobs that would destroy not just statues but the very foundations of our liberty.

In some sense, the story of the Confederate statues, and Jefferson, Lincoln, Churchill, and Gandhi are stories of forgiveness. We protect their memories because we understand that history’s judgment will eventually condemn us for the luxuries we enjoy off the backs of foreign workers in slave like conditions. We too hope to be understood, forgiven.

In that spirit I forgive all of those who failed to answer the call as the statues started falling. But we need you back. As is so often the case, the great compromise failed. There really are only two sides, one that seeks to burn everything down and one that seeks to save the greatest nation the world has ever known. Pick one. Now.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: confedmemorials; conservative; cowards; georgewashington; internetbadass; keyboardcommandos; learnhowtoreadrinos; readythememes; someonewhogetsit; statues; thomasjefferson; ulyssessgrant
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-38 next last

1 posted on 06/20/2020 9:03:41 AM PDT by Signalman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Signalman

The Pike statue last night - He represented native Americans in claims against the US Government. That’s why he led a NATIVE AMERICAN brigade in the Civil War. His troops allegedly scalped prisoners.

And his statue was because after the war he was a great leader of the Masons.

The statue was dedicated to the ideal of peace rather than war


2 posted on 06/20/2020 9:07:25 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

Agree 100%!

We are nowhere to be seen in this culture war.


3 posted on 06/20/2020 9:10:49 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman
We protect their memories because we understand that history’s judgment will eventually condemn us for the luxuries we enjoy off the backs of foreign workers in slave like conditions.

Wth? More self-loathing...no thank you.

4 posted on 06/20/2020 9:12:03 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

We’re not calling cowardice out if we’re not naming names.


5 posted on 06/20/2020 9:13:20 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

“In that spirit I forgive all of those who failed to answer the call as the statues started falling. But we need you back. As is so often the case, the great compromise failed. There really are only two sides, one that seeks to burn everything down and one that seeks to save the greatest nation the world has ever known. Pick one. Now.”

Location of the author? Behind a keyboard.


6 posted on 06/20/2020 9:13:24 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

I have been saying for years now that the Republican party ought to be renamed the Reflublicant Party. Its leadership is mainly cowardly and stupid. I could not inspire a buzzard with a full gizzard to take a crap.


7 posted on 06/20/2020 9:14:37 AM PDT by attiladhun2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

all by design... the GOP wants to lose, all to depress turnout

its not gonna work.


8 posted on 06/20/2020 9:15:07 AM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

I heard no one from either side saying this is a bad idea.
That was both disappointing and alarming.
Most of the GOP seems more comfortable reacting vs enacting.


9 posted on 06/20/2020 9:15:13 AM PDT by lee martell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman
"the luxuries we enjoy off the backs of foreign workers in slave-like conditions"

Thank you! This has been driving me nuts: Nike apparel is created by an army of about 800,000, all overseas earning on average 70 cents an hour. The gear is marked up about 400% to sell to kids in the inner cities who literally kill each other for the shoes. The company enriches a handful of athletes to promote the brand. Then they donate to BLM who funnels it through Act Blue to the DNC, who if they win, will erase any attempts Trump has made to encourage companies like Nike to manufacture in America. Then BLM tells us that a beat cop earning $43K a year is the real power.

Imagine Nike employing 800,000 Americans at union wage (instead of spending $6B a year in celebrity endorsements). But never mind. Tell me again how slavery in America 150 years ago affects you today? Let's watch another Hollywood movie reminding you of slavery. Have they made any movies set in factories in China? Funny how major corporations, the Marxist wing of all American universities, and the intelligence wing of the government don't agree on anything except: Trump, and by extension, America, has got to go.

10 posted on 06/20/2020 9:16:33 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: aquila48

>We are nowhere to be seen in this culture war.<

Some have been saying this is a civil war, and I say no, it isn’t, it isn’t one until we start fighting back.


11 posted on 06/20/2020 9:17:31 AM PDT by Tejas Rob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

Great article.

One can try to argue gradations of compromise with these radical burn-it-all-down lunatics, but you’ll still be devoured by them. They don’t compromise.


12 posted on 06/20/2020 9:17:42 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

How is Trump going to be reelected as a ‘law and order’ president, if there is neither law or order? He has to act against this lawlessness... he can’t just hope to ride it out through the election.


13 posted on 06/20/2020 9:17:47 AM PDT by shadowlands1960 (“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” CSL)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman
I understand what the author is saying, but confronting the left over statues is playing checkers rather than chess.

The only real shot we've got is to let the left run wild for a bit, and thereby discredit themselves with the majority of the country that still hasn't lost their minds. Maybe the suburbanites who think it is trendy to voice support for BLM will start to reconsider when they realize the movement isn't quite what they think.

Leftist radicals smashing stores, and toppling statues of Washington and Grant, adds to vote total we will need in November.

14 posted on 06/20/2020 9:20:08 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: VanDeKoik

>>Location of the author? Behind a keyboard.<<

It’s been made clear that if you are on the right you will go to jail and have your life ruined but if you are on the left you’re good to go. That’s why so many hesitate to take action.

Myself, it’s all or nothing for me. If I go I go all in. They will not throw me in one of their gulags with the sub-human trash from the streets. It’s the point of no return for me.


15 posted on 06/20/2020 9:20:08 AM PDT by Tejas Rob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: VanDeKoik
Location of the author? Behind a keyboard.

Direct hit! What he's really saying is that everyone else should be out there fighting it while he bravely exhorts others to show courage.

16 posted on 06/20/2020 9:21:25 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

The Federalist is a bunch of cowards for removinh commenting inorder to get Google Ad sense back on the site.


17 posted on 06/20/2020 9:21:40 AM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bruce Campbells Chin

>I understand what the author is saying, but confronting the left over statues is playing checkers rather than chess.<

Agreed, this could be a case of not interrupting your enemy when they are making a mistake. I’m not sure what will happen at the voting booth however. Generally though, when the people see the mob and what the mob will do, they will side with law and order every time.


18 posted on 06/20/2020 9:23:12 AM PDT by Tejas Rob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: ripnbang

Homo sapiens would not even be here is they had not ruthlessly destroyed their predecessors.

History is the story of different groups conquering other groups.

There are _no_ clean hands.

Only spoiled little children believe otherwise.


19 posted on 06/20/2020 9:25:57 AM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

This is how we’ll lose the senate and make no gains in the house! We need to start putting blame where it belongs and counts ...By blaming the spineless greedy republicans reps will only serve the rats!!! STOP IT!! Tucker is doing the same helping the rats this November...STOP IT!! THE BLAME FALLS SQAURELY ON THE LIBERAL GOVERNORS OF THOSE RIOTOUS STATES!!! The demonic rats are LICKING THEIR EVIL CHOPS JUST ABOUT NOW!!! NOVEMBER can’t come soon enough for them!!


20 posted on 06/20/2020 9:31:57 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-38 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson