In the WSJ this article was interesting. George Orwell in 1949 spoke of thought control, surveillance by big brother, the erasure of history and the defacing of monuments. Mao's Cultural Revolution brought an end to history, culture, the past, religion, statues and reason. Mao, who killed about 80 million people, is still a hero in a lot of current academia. Wall Street Journal Gerard Baker. Re American liberation of Europe: Twenty years later, much of the country’s political leadership, almost its entire academic establishment, most of the people who control its news and cultural output, and a good deal of its corporate elite view the US as an irredeemably malignant force for enslavement and oppression, a uniquely evil power founded on an ideology of racial supremacy. These Jacobins demand that Americans repudiate most of the nation’s history, tear down the icons of its creation and engage in a collective cultural expurgation of its sins. Re Bernie Sanders: ... four years ago, senator Bernie Sanders... visited Mount Rushmore and pronounced: “It really does make one very proud to be an American.” (Trump's visit)....the words of a CNN reporter, “in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans”. Re Today's America" With hindsight, it’s clear that the US in 2020 was ripe for the kind of mindless Maoism that demands fealty to its gospel of ideological cleansing. The nation has reached a combustive moment. The rot in America’s cultural institutions was spread for more than half a century by a self-loathing cultural establishment. Now it has matured amid a public malaise induced by 20 years of elitedriven political and economic failure that has undermined faith in the system that made America great. The cultural corrosion has been evident for decades. Perhaps what we should have seen better were its consequences: generations of students fed a steady diet of critical race theory and postcolonial gender studies — all delivered in safe spaces protected by an intolerance of dissent — poured out of college campuses into the world, waving their white-fragility texts like little red books.
This one of Truman is my favorite, absolutely unique. Who ever heard of sculpting a newspaper? I'm not sure if they have them all, but they do have many, including Barack Obama already.
If the fools on the left ever bother to read Truman's quotes I'm sure that statue won't be there for very long.
It should be noted that Truman didn't pay someone to take his SAT test because he didn't go to college, but unlike Dumb-ass Don he was extremely well read. Speaking now as a history buff and not as a left wing fool. I dare say I've read of a hell of a lot more about Truman than most right-wingers.
Truman had guts. He made one of the toughest decisions in history. He ranks high on my list of effective presidents.
The thread about erasing monuments, confidently forgets that mt.rushmore was a monument alread and that it was erased to make room for the national monument we have today. Neat.
