Posted on 06/22/2020 12:29:28 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Whiney academics love reminding us that we need to learn history or be doomed to repeat it.
Really?
So NOW we make a conscious effort to destroy the history of the US?
Liberals...still wanting and GETTING it both ways!
Well, aren’t they being PAID to protect it? Didn’t they take an OATH to protect it? It’s elementary, Watson.
Can’t Trump assign guards to the Washington statues? At some point this has to stop.
In time, the arsonists will make attempts on Mount Vernon and Monticello. Virginians have largely become crazy loons.
Fortunately it is private, not public. But I hope they can protect it if a mob descends on the place.
The Bolsheviks and their useful idiots could not care less about history. The here-and-now is Year 0, and that’s all that matters.
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IMHO: because teachers don’t teach American History, World History and Mom and Dad are trying to out do the next door Mom and Dad and have to work, work, work ... have kids but set them in from of ‘Fort Night’ and let them do whatever...
Oh heck of a way to teach children about the History Of OUR COUNTRY, what it took to make this Country, the men who fought and died to give us this Country...
There’s your problem...you fix that and hopefully it won’t be to late to save some American History, and get that stupid Nanzi out of Government PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
But they love their history. Kids will be forced to remember every time a commie leader passed gas but not anything important. Especially freedom.
Guarding is not being done, their oaths and paychecks aside. All of us, I think, can agree on that. In theory yes that is what it should be, but in practice something somewhere is broken down. Whatever and wherever that is, the point is is that it is not working. Toppling and vandalism keeps happening.
Which brings us back to conservative protesters. We know protesting works, it works every time conservatives do it.(at least in large enough numbers) So why refuse to do something successful in the face of something that is clearly not working? That’s what I don’t understand.
As someone who’s been there twice, and participated in the wreath laying ceremony, I wholeheartedly agree with you about Mount Vernon being a national treasure.
Conservative resistance such as occurred in Idaho over the weekend DOES work. Any other, maybe. Here’s the link to the Couer d’Alene standoff.
>>>Erase history, rewrite history, forget history, repeat history
So what lessons did we learn by the presence of Confederate statues? We still had Jim Crow laws, we still had lynchings, and 100 years after the Civil War folks were still marching to secure the blessings of liberty for Black Americans.
Apparently, we pretty much repeated history for several generations despite these helpful teaching instruments.
Even more could be learned by storing the monuments—but leaving the empty pedestal!
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