If you cancel George Washington, you have to cancel these "progressive heroes" too-
[thefederalist.com]
Mao got round inconvenient history with his great leap forward. Starting again with year one! &death toll reset to zero! 3,000,000 in 5 years! Then pol pot who killed a third of the population if they were potentially intelligent. Bilingual-death, Wear glasses-death, soft hands-death, ability to read More than basic orders-death! Stalin One quarter of population in gulag or executed! Crime... Daring to question The leader. Or sometimes just in Case! So how are this lot planning on imposing their ideas on the rest of us?and how would we be punished under this new leftist regime for protection of heritage
They say we learn from our past mistakes. How does that work if we continue to erase it all? I have some things/people in my past I’d like to erase too. Doesn’t frickin work that way. I just hope I’ve learned from it and don’t repeat it. And if I do? Well then aren’t I just an f’n idiot.
Well said.
The problem I find is that most people do not know History.
It seems to be an experiment to see if one can get the world of 1984 and fahrenheit 451into the same universe.
May be the killing fields should be part of The high school history curriculum
The idea that you can ignore history is immortal. Socialists do it all the time to justify trying it again. That’s what removing statues is all about.
“Those ignorant of history are doomed to its repetition.” - George Santayana.