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 dont want to be called names, I mean nobody enjoys that. But heres the thing, after you write your little op-ed about how of course the evil Confederate statues have to come down they still think youre 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. Thats who you decided to compromise with.
Whats 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 historys 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.
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
Agree 100%!
We are nowhere to be seen in this culture war.
Wth? More self-loathing...no thank you.
We’re not calling cowardice out if we’re not naming names.
“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.
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.
all by design... the GOP wants to lose, all to depress turnout
its not gonna work.
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.
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.
>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.
Great article.
One can try to argue gradations of compromise with these radical burn-it-all-down lunatics, but youll still be devoured by them. They dont compromise.
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.
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.
>>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.
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.
The Federalist is a bunch of cowards for removinh commenting inorder to get Google Ad sense back on the site.
>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.
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.
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!!
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