Posted on 07/04/2023 5:47:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Many children of divorce experience a kind of exile. Although you are told your home has not shrunk, but expanded, it rarely feels that way. Not only has the place you used to think of as home changed many of its rituals and rules, but it has altered how you are viewed and treated. At first there is a sense of the newcomers not really knowing you, not knowing all your preferences or aversions and having to explain so many backstories from your past that clarify the present. Then this graduates to not understanding you, your possibilities and limitations, where you need more guidance and where you need less. Finally, this culminates in an indifference, or even exploitation, because step-relatives never did have that kind of bond in which your triumphs and suffering are theirs, also.
As the left topples statues, renames institutions, mocks patriotic symbol and rituals, and rewrites history, the American identity is being subject to a similar phenomenon. The left wants to sever Americans from their history and their Founding Fathers — not just their flaws, but their ideas (notwithstanding their effectiveness in remedying those flaws) that form the foundation of our once largely self-governing, thriving country. The left is essentially seeking to replace the Founders with its own woke socialist icons (specific names pending their definitive complete ascension to power) as your new Founding Fathers, the Stepfounders.
It is confounding how a country founded on the principle of limited government finds itself with the most powerful centralized government in world history, with strangulating tentacles everywhere, far beyond the original assignment of interstate commerce and foreign policy. The Founding Fathers reassured the citizenry, as the Declaration of Independence states, "that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent...
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The left wants to rewrite history because history shows what they do when they have power.
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