Many if not most of these statues and monuments are owned by the public. So the anodyne to this malignant movement is to force a public vote (limit to once per decade) on removal or relocation.
It is mob action with the threat of violence that starts these hasty actions and it is complicit politicians that make the decisions. The similarities to lynch mobs and vigilantes is all too obvious and I have no desire to repeat the French Revolution.
When will the Jefferson Memorial be up for removal?
More fundamentally, when will slave owner Jefferson’s ideas about individual liberty be discarded and replaced with communism or some other totalitarian regime? A man who was born into a family that owned slaves, and a man who died owning slaves, with his trusted slave at his deathbed. The similarity between abortion and slavery cannot be underestimated. Jefferson was a man of his times. I am betting he could not imagine his own life without slaves. Many of the pro-abortion people (Clintons, Pelosi, Xiden, et al) are “(wo)men of their times” today ...yet they cannot confront it and live in a country without it. It got them (s)elected. Another reason, Jefferson’s statute should remain.