I’ll put my “marginal intellect” and resume up against the likes of you any day. A real conservative would acknowledge the disaster of the welfare state, and how it destroys family and individual (intentionally, I might add, because destroying the family is necessary and sufficient for socialism to flourish). Instead of acknowledging how bad the welfare state has been for the Republic in general, and the black family in particular (see: Walter Williams columns), you and others would rather blame someone’s skin color.
Back to the issue at hand: I do not support the removal of these monuments and never have. The folks who are agitating for their removal are the product of a society that has collectively turned it’s back on God and embraced Karl Marx. This has been a long time coming. Some of you need to look in the mirror and think about your only involvement in the culture war being voting, as though that has gotten us anywhere. Meanwhile, the large majority of alleged Christians and alleged conservatives have embraced the system which produced the antifa scum: they allowed their children to attend government schools. What could go wrong?
We don’t need your resume: we have what you’ve written here. That is fully sufficient to establish the quality of your intellect.
You want everyone to chase after social chimera rather than suffer the discomfort of addressing those who can not seem to live productive lives and make choices that harm themselves and those around them. Like any other coward, you want to go after those you know will not harm you while still giving yourself credit for being a “fighter” for what’s right.