History is us
Destroying it destroys us.
Can’t let it happen.

 

The Destruction of History

I did something weird this week. In fact, I bet I will be put on some FBI watch list after purchases are scanned. I bought Margaret Sanger’s Women and the New Race and Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. 

Margaret Sanger is a eugenicist, racist, abortionist and founder of Planned Parenthood. She believed that abortion should be required for anyone who would weaken society. That includes babies born with Downs Syndrome, physical disabilities and…wait for it…people of color, especially blacks. That’s not a mistake. She’s considered an American hero to the Left. They, conveniently, left out the fact that she was an ardent Marxist and wanted to breed blacks out of American society. This is an example of the Left’s revisionist history and I wanted to read her own words.

Howard Zinn’s book is being sent to schools as required reading. It has been touted as the history book by Will Hunting from the Oscar winning movie, Good Will Hunting (I like Matt Damon as an actor, by the way). He was also a Marxist and socialist. He said the American Indians were innocent and loving giving Columbus the chance to slaughter them at will. The conflicts with the Soviet Union, Cuba, Korea and Vietnam were because of American imperialism. Our kids are reading this crap. This is an example of the Left’s revisionist history and I wanted to read his own words.

Today, we have a bunch of snot-nosed kids tearing down statues because… not sure. I mean, I get it if they were tearing down statues of Robert E. Lee or of Jefferson Davis or even of John Adams. But Abraham Lincoln, who started a war that led to the death of 700,000 Americans to end slavery and was killed by a… um… Democrat? And Ulysses S. Grant, who was an ardent anti-slavery guy and helped pen the 15th Amendment? And Francis Scot Key, who wrote the poem that ended up being the Star Spangled Banner? Or Theodore Roosevelt, who was the most popular President in U.S. history and really didn’t do anything that could be seen as controversial.

Here’s the thing: the radicals we are seeing in the streets right now, encouraged by the Left, don’t care about what statue they destroy. Their goal is not to destroy Confederate statues, which can be understood a bit. Their goal is to destroy American history. The Left cannot have history in America if they want to change the institution of America.

Here’s the thing: America was a bad place at one time. We fixed it. Are we perfect? No. But this country is as close to perfect than any other country in human history. We had slavery. We had Jim Crow. We didn’t let women vote. We interred Asian Americans during World War II. We had Watergate. We supported terrible regimes. But we saw our sins and we dealt with them. That is our history.

Here’s the problem with the Left: They want complete change of our institutions and philosophy. They want to control the economy, media, art, education and healthcare. They want a all-controlling government that determines every aspect of our lives. They do not want us to think of ourselves as individuals but as a collective, without individual identity and whose value is only based on what he can do for the collective.

They proclaim the need for love and togetherness. They claim that the sins of the United States can be solved by working together. They claim we can all have homes, money, education, healthcare, televisions, Internet and iPhones. Our collective love can solve crime so we will not need those evil police. They claim we can achieve world peace through globalism so that we do not need a military to solve international conflicts.

This sounds great. Heck, it sounds like The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. I read the pamphlet when I was 20 years old and it made sense. I can see why kids think it is a good philosophy. Heck, in college, I took a class in the different religions and thought all of them were good. It made me question my Christianity.

I can see why there is a push to get rid of our way of life and replace it with a philosophy that promises Utopia.

Here’s the problem: History. World history and the United States history.

There has never been a communist, socialist or marxist country that has not led to tyranny, imprisonment, starvation and death. The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany (which was a socialist country), Italy (which is fascist country), North Korea, China, Venezuela, Vietnam, Cuba and assorted Central American countries have tried to create Marx’s utopia. They all ended up in tyranny and dictatorships, imprisoning or killing anyone who does not comply.

What does the Left do? Revisionist history. I have children in my life. They don’t know what the Soviet Union is. They don’t know what the Cold War was. They don’t know what the Berlin Wall was. They know about Hitler because he was a fascist (they don’t know what that is) because Conservatives have been tagged as fascists (which makes not sense). But they don’t know anything about Lennin, Staling or Mao, each of who have killed far more than Hitler has.

And educators teach about wonderful “socialist” countries like Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands. This is the great lie. These countries are not socialist and never have been. These countries continue to point out they are not socialist. But the Left continues to revise world history in order to push their narrative.

The next big problem the Left has is American history. And this is far more problematic for them. They are attacking the problem revise and eliminate.

The revision of the history of the United States has been going on for decades. Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States, was first published in 1980 and took society like a whirl wind. It made the United States out to be an imperialist country that is the cause of all the evil in the world. Zinn is a well-known Marxist but not much of a historian. His book is rife with mistakes and exaggerations. Real historians have debunked the book over and over again. But this book continues to be used in schools and is a reference in colleges. This type of history makes every event, whether good or bad, into something that had evil undertones. Columbus’ discovery was not a great achievement but was to enslave the peaceful American Indians and rape the country of resources. World War II was not to end the tyranny of Japan and the genocide in Germany but was to quench our imperialist appetite. This is all crap, of course, but people are buying it.

The New York Times 1619 Project is another example of revisionist history but it does something a bit different. This Pulitzer Prize winning piece (of crap) decides to ignore history all together. It states the history of the United States started in 1619 with the first black slaves arriving on our shores. Mind you, there was no United States in 1619. It tries to convince people (and is doing a good job) that the United States was founded on slavery and oppression and that we have never left that philosophy. That the country in 2020 is no different than it was in 1619. It ignores the creation Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It ignores the philosophies of the Founding Fathers when it comes to slavery and only focuses on their sins. It ignores the fact that there has been slavery throughout world history (and it remains today) and that slavery is a uniquely American trait. It ignores the 600,000 people that died in the Civil War we had to eliminate slavery. It ignores the Emancipation Proclamation that was supported by most of the country. It ignores the 15th and 16th Amendments that gave blacks freedom and right to vote. It ignores Women’s Suffrage that gave women the right to vote. It ignores the Civil Rights Act that ended the Jim Crow laws.

It does not see the United States as a country that saw evil and transformed and grew. It chooses to see the United States as continually as evil as some of our beliefs back in the 17th century. In fact, it sees us as the arbiters of that evil. In other words, we started it. And the best way to end the world’s evil is to end the system that started it and continues to promulgate it.

This is just crazy. There has always been evil in the world. The United States has spent its entire history fighting the evils in the world and from within. And it has done a great job of it. This series of essays is complete crap. Heck, the New York Times had to run a series of corrections on the historical “facts”. But this did not stop the essay from winning a Pulitzer Prize.

This project is what is leading the youth to destroy statues today. I have more thoughts on this in a later article. This is to destroy our history. That’s because those statues represent the changes that our country has gone through to become the greatest country in world history. Yes, it is in the guise of racist cops and American systemic racism. But, then, why tear down the statues of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant and Theodore Roosevelt? Because they are symbols of progress in the United States. And the Left cannot allow any knowledge of progress or transformation in this country because it would mean that we have grown as a nation and are not terrible.

The Left wants to destroy us. They use uneducated children to do their deeds. Children that don’t know our history, have accomplished nothing, want everything for free and are filled with the ideas of an unattainable utopia. All so that a few elitist tyrants can gain power.

My advice: Always question interpreted history. Beware of any history that goes to extremes like Howard Zinn’s history does. No country is completely evil. Especially this one.

And do not be silent. We’re passed that now. When someone says something stupid, point out