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.
I think the blacks can knock down all the statues they want and even get a few laws passed, but a few years downstream their place in our society and economy will not have changed.
Unless they change themselves from within.
The GOP is worthless and many Conservatives go to work and live a normal life as opposed to scum who are leaches,destroyers and compensated by the leftist cabal.
Nailed it.
When the Mobile, Al. local government removed a Confederate statue in the dark of night the only opposition statement the local press could get was from a representative from the Sons on Confederate Veterans....who would only speak anonymously.
No, they are not. The people who toppled them are responsible for toppling them. Conservatives, as always, are slow to act.
No. NAME NAMES and make them defend their position.
Then let’s all put our names out there because we are ALL OF US not taking to the streets and protecting statues and confronting blm/antifa (except for Italians around a few Columbus Statues and folks at the Alamo)
This is all going on Democrat states / cities. This is a states issue..
I took it as the author was pointing his finger at me. So am I to lock and load and stand between the mobs and these statues because that’s the only way ‘We The People’ can make a difference. Our Government isn’t going to stop this madness.
I had some sport with lefty nincompoops the other day by positing the question: Should the statue of Emil Faber be torn down?
Their default was “yes”.
Faber is best known for Faber College, from the movie “Animal House.”
The motto on his pedestal is “Knowledge is Good”.
Perhaps that’s fair to use as a standard for bravery, but it’s not the standard he’s using. He says it’s “The so-called conservatives who have been coddling mindless calls to destroy public art”, which I took to mean conservative officials publicly selling-out to the mob about taking the statues down.
Is this A-hole writing this from jail? Or is he calling everyone else a coward from his basement.
You are right. As for me I had the chance to tell several thousand people what I thought but it just didn’t seem like the right time :-)
I have run into 3 BLM protests in Brooklyn. I was alone or with one or two other guys each time. One time a group of them asked why we weren’t matching and I said it’s not my concern.
Because saying I think you are a bunch of punk terrorists who need to find a job might have gone down bad when they have 2000 friends 20 feet away :-)
Even five-on-three I would let my opinion known. You have a Fighting Chance. Anything after that you’re just going to get clobbered.
Sadly, plenty of people, including some here, still can’t see what’s happening.
Not doing the math can be the difference between brave and stupid! :-)
And that one was an easy equation!! :)
We are cowards. It is time that we need to fight the Anti Americans who are trying to rewrite history. We need to tell them that we had enough...
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