First, Obama renamed Mt. McKinley. Now the Arcata City Council in California wants to tear down a statue of President William McKinley.
“Put a rope around its neck and pull it down,” a leftist activist shouted.
There were similar protests last year in Honolulu at McKinley High School, a push to remove a McKinley statue in Massachusetts, and a McKinley statue was repeatedly vandalized in San Francisco.
If there’s any Republican president who would appear an unlikely target for the left, it’s McKinley.
The progressive left fights you not for a noble purpose but for your submission.
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“The left is not fighting racism, sexism, homophobia, income inequality or war. It is fighting us. It is not tearing down statues because they memorialize racists, but because they memorialize Americans.”
It also fights to remove the markers of its hypocrisy. The Southern Civil War hero statutes mark the racist cause which drives the progressive movement, a cause which no longer coheres with the narrative and so must be erased.
McKinley represents the benevolent face of American free-market capitalism, and so he too must go. The narrative demands that capitalism and free markets be vilified, not venerated.
Kennedy represented open, optimistic American opportunity and a willingness to face and fight communism directly, and without qualm. For his stand, the left had to kill Kennedy. Ever since the left rallies to his name while always following policy antithetical to Kennedy’s goals.
The goal is always the same, power, to the progressive left, there is only power. Progressives are recrudescent power zombies, they are attracted to power, they feed off of power, and they cannot be dissuaded from it. This obsession for power is the underpinning driver of their beliefs in postmodernism and cultural Marxism. The progressive left has no ideas to use power for the benefit of others, only to use it for their benefit.
“And if they get their way, they will bully us, enslave us, kill us and finally erase us from history.”
In the end, it is not even about you, or us, it is about their unwholesome insecurity and obsession with filling that void with power. When that does not work, progressives exercise power, and when that doesn’t resolve their insecurity, they use more violent force and oppression until there is nothing left, and all others have been reduced to corpses. If allowed its head, the consuming insecurity of the progressive leftist will murder all others, that is its only logical outcome.
Postmodernism is a fallacy. It is built on the idea that every social structure can be fractionated revealing power imbalances where the powerful are evil, and the powerless are angelic. There is no end to the ability to fractionate this right down to the individual, thereby authorizing the least powerful to murder the rest. There may be a better definition of hell, but I do not know it.
Progressive Utopia is hell.
Stand, and fight, or submit and die in hell. An election looms choose wisely.
Mark Sherman