July 4: Why haven't Jefferson and Washington been canceled?
Happy Independence Day!
This morning I was wondering: Why haven’t Jefferson and Washington been canceled? The Left has canceled almost everybody else in American history. Yet efforts to deep-six T.J. and George have been brief and without result. Even though both were slaveholders. Their D.C. memorials have not been torn down, pulverized, and replaced with new edifices to Obama and Hillary.
I think the reason is clear: The Left instinctively underestands if you take down those Founders’ memorials, as well as those to Madison, Patrick Henry, George Mason and other Southern Founders, the whole country is discredited and falls apart. Then there’s no more centralized government for them to control and use against us.
Jefferson wrote their favorite clause in all government documents, “all men are created equal.” He obviously didn’t mean the 1965 Civil Rights Act. But no matter. It’s the mythology that counts. That clause gives the Left carte blanche to impose anything on us: P.C., wokeness, DEI, ESG, etc. The Left doesn’t care its programs hurt the very minorities they claim to help. It’s all about control. They turned a document that’s the bulwark of our liberties, the Declaration, into a charter for tyranny. So they need to keep Jefferson.
Washington is even more critical. He won the war against the Brits, then presided over the Constitutional Convention. Get rid of George, and we have to make Charles III our king. And the Constitution would longer exist for AG Merrick Garland and his mentor, Harvard Law Prof. Laurence Tribe, to distort and manipulate.
No Washington, no country.
At least some on the Left might have realized canceling the Southern generals from the Civil War didn’t work out as planned. So going back to demolish the 1776 guys would be driving off a bridge like Teddy Kennedy, drowning them as passengers.
Southerns are proud of their history. And they don’t like being insulted. They don’t fight duels anymore, like Andy Jackson. But they have found a way to fight back: by not fighting in our military. That’s the main reason for the ongoing recruitment crisis.
The Left says:
We hate you Southerns and your slaver history. We’re tearing down all your monuments and our history books demonize you. But although you are 30% of the country, you’re 50% of the military. Please, please come back and enlist to fight in all our stupid wars! We’d join ourselves, but we’re needed back here to plan all our great victories!
Southerners:
Y’all fight your own wars.
So, as painful as it is to the Left, they can’t cancel Jefferson and Washington.
It’s something to be greatful for this Independence Day 2024.