The culture they cancel is our own

Culture cancelling is what they call the left's success in getting people fired for saying something they disagree with. The name is accurate because it cancels a pillar of the American culture: free speech.

Apologies only feed the animal. Apologies serve the purpose of silencing people before they tell the truth. In the cowardly new world of the loss of freedom, the truth is the enemy of the state. The Soviet Union and Red China are the templates, although Nazi Germany had a similar plan.

Freedom of religion died in the 1960s with the Supreme Court ruling that prayer in schools somehow is unconstitutional. I get that children should not be forced to pray. I do not get that no child can.

The rights to peaceably assemble will end once the left has no use for it. The free press committed suicide by embracing totalitarianism. Guns will be the last God-given right thrown overboard.

The falling statuary is an erasure of history. The Confederate statues are the easiest targets. Decades of lying about Columbus softened the ground (and heads) enough to the point where an Italian politician -- Pelosi -- approves.

When they attacked Lincoln, they did so to hide the black guilt over being liberated by evangelical white Christians (mainly). Liberals cannot accept the fact that the forerunners of the 700 Club were abolitionists while the Democrats fought and died for slavery. Lincoln liberating the slaves is now depicted as slaves kneeling before him. Actual slaves and not fake millionaire ones like LeBron James paid for that statue.

The name America will be erased. Sure. Amerigo Vespucci, the man who really discovered America (albeit South America) engaged in the slave trade as did most 15th century leaders on every continent except Antarctica.

Maybe they will rename it Mumia Abu-Jamal.

The only world leader in the 21st century standing atop history yelling stop is President Donald John Trump. He draws praise from across the globe by men who respect freedom.

Douglas Kear Murray wrote in The Spectator (U.K.), "It is stunning to watch, this unweaving of a nation. While it has been going on for decades, the latest orgy of iconoclasm has seen crowds assail statues of the Founding Fathers with equal ferocity to that aimed at Confederates. A statue of George Washington pulled down in Portland, Oregon had ‘genocidal colonist’ spray-painted on it. A statue of Thomas Jefferson, pulled down outside a school, was graffitied with ‘slave owner’ as well as the name of George Floyd.

"Far from spontaneous, this is the logical conclusion of a radical, revisionist view of American history that has been fomented for years."

He noted that liberals want the Constitution rewritten. He is too young (turns 41 next week) or too British to understand the dishonest and baffling argument they make that the Constitution is a slave document written by slaveholders.

But Murray gets the main drift, and he also understands the importance of President Trump in this fight, and the battle engaged in his Sermon on the Mount Rushmore.

Murray wrote, "He — or his speechwriters — then did something very simple. He gave a succinct history lesson on each of the four figures carved into the mountain behind him. It was a wonderful thing to hear. Not the hostile, monochrome, ahistorical register in which all dead figures have lately come to be described, but a succinct reminder of why George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt came to be immortalised. Demonstrating that this is an inclusive, not exclusionist, story, his speech wove other heroes into this tradition. Trump talked of Dr Martin Luther King’s urge to his fellow citizens ‘not to rip down their heritage, but to live up to their heritage’. And, announcing a new park to celebrate the heroes of America, he listed some of these great Americans, including Frederick Douglass, Jesse Owens and Louis Armstrong. As he finished reeling off this genuinely diverse list, he added: ‘Only America could have produced them all.’"

But the president honored more than the Four Horsemen of the Presidency. President Trump praised in order of mention, Washington, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, the Wright Brothers, the Tuskegee Airmen, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Jesse Owens, General George Patton, the great Louis Armstrong, Alan Shepard, Elvis Presley, Muhammad Ali, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Irving Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Bob Hope.

Patriots all.

Not a Confederate in the bunch. General Grant defeated the Confederacy, and he was a much underrated and successful president. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was as good as the one in 1964. Sadly the courts and his successors abandoned it.

The enemy of the state has silenced other defenders of America. Patriotism is portrayed in the media as racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic – you know, the whole basket of deplorables.

Not content with misquoting and demonizing President Trump, the New York Times promoted the lie that our nation was founded on slavery with its 1619 project propaganda.

To this, Murray wrote, "The President has plenty of problems of his own to deal with. But in fighting back against the 1619 view of American history, he is doing something important not just for his own survival, but for the survival of the republic. After all, if Mount Rushmore is ‘stolen’, then what of the rest of the country? And if all the land is stolen, the Founding Fathers were only slavers and the Constitution is a product of ‘white supremacy’, then what exactly holds this grand, quarter--millennial project together? Trump has his own answer, and doubtless for his own reasons. But it is a better, far more unifying answer than the dismantling options being offered by his opponents. And who knows, perhaps in an election year that fact will count for something."

'Tis a fine piece hidden behind a paywall as print media dinosaurs pretend advertisement does not keep them alive. Throughout my 40 years or so of newspapering, the price on the paper never covered the cost of its production. If they charged the cost there would be too few subscribers to warrant the price of advertising.

But enough about that dead and dying dinosaur. The country can survive without newspapers.

What it cannot survive without is a culture built on free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of dissent, freedom to own guns, and the truth.