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The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past
a book by Jarrett Stepman
(our site's book review)
The Amazon blurb says that Confederate memorials toppled . . . Columbus statues attacked with red paint.
Christopher Columbus Statue Torn Down at Minnesota State Capitol on June 10, 2020
They started with slave-owning Confederate generals, but they’re not stopping there.
The vandals are only pretending to care about the character of particular American heroes. In reality, they hate what those heroes represent: the truths asserted in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Constitution. And they are bent on taking America down and replacing our free society with a socialist utopia. All that stands in their way is Americans’ reverence for our history of freedom.
Which is why that history simply has to go, [say the snowflakes, since that history hurts their feelings].
Now, Jarrett Stepman, editor at The Daily Signal and host of Right Side of History, exposes the true aims of the war on our history:
- The war on America: World history is full of conquests and suffering indigenous peoples. Why target Christopher Columbus? What they really want to tear down is America.
- The war on Thanksgiving: World history is full of colonists. Why target the Pilgrims? What they really want to tear down is American freedom and prosperity.
- The war on the Founding: World history is full of slavery. Why target Thomas Jefferson? What they really want to tear down are the rights endowed by our Creator.
Thomas Jefferson
- The war on the common man: World history is full of victorious generals and populist politicians. Why target Andrew Jackson? What they really want to tear down is democracy.
- The war on the South: World history is full of civil strife. Why target Confederate heroes like Robert E. Lee? What they really want to tear down is respect for America’s past and the reconciliation that renewed our Union.
Lee surrenders, marking the end of the Civil War
- The war on patriotism: World history is full of national pride. Why target Teddy Roosevelt? What they really want to tear down is the idea of American greatness.
- The war on the American century: World history is full of bloody wars. What they really want to tear down is America’s defeat of totalitarianism.
If America is to survive this assault, we must rally to the defense of our illustrious history. The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past is the battle plan.
As the crazed radical leftist wacko snowflakes work their way into even more hysterical frenzies, will this be their next victim? The ultimate but hypocritical virtue signalling
As Stepman sees it, "It was clear: it wasn’t the Confederacy the activists were coming after—it was America. It was everything this country was built on and the people who made it. The attacks became systematic and widespread. If progressives couldn’t get local city councils or the proper authorities to take down whatever the Left deemed offensive, the more radical of the activists would gather a mob and smash statues as authorities looked on or show up in the dead of night to vandalize them with red paint or sledgehammers.
It was clear: it wasn’t the Confederacy the progressive activists were coming after—it was America; their attacks were two-faced; they used them to gain power while citing systemic racism nonsense
"This moment should give us
pause. Far too few of us lucky . . . Far too many of us
stand by or even cheer while
radicals dismantle the pillars of
our nation’s greatness on the
theory that they are symbols of
the oppression, racism, and
prejudice that make America an
irreparably flawed place. [Hey—love it or leave it!]
"The war on history did not
come out of nowhere. . . . In an earlier time, Americans
were inoculated by _ their
education against the defamation
of their nation. But today, a
growing hard-left ideological bloc
is preying on a new generation’s
ignorance to detach them from
American ideas, history, and
cultural norms. See Erasing America: Losing Our Future by Destroying Our Past, by James S. Robbins.
We are headed for our national funeral disguised as a nonracist utopia of equality
"We were given fair warning of this moment by President Ronald Reagan." (But we didn't really listen, so we are headed for our national funeral disguised as a nonracist utopia of equality, and if you believe that a nonracist utopia of equality is our destination, you just flunked the course.)
A radical leftist Youtube video spreads this egregious propaganda: "Columbus initiated a centuries-old wave of terrorism, murder, genocide, rape, slavery, ecological
degradation, and . . . capitalist exploitation of labor in the Americas. That Columbian wave of destruction continues on the backs of indigenous, African-American, and brown people."
Indigenous people were already doing unspeakably violent things (tearing still-beating hearts out of the chests of human sacrifices, skinning alive, etc.) to each other long before Columbus discovered America. Columbus himself advocated treating the natives with respect. But some of his Spanish crewmates did what conquerors have always done: exploit and enslave the conquered. This was a commonplace in the world of 1492, regardless of leftist propaganda. There were more blacks enslaving Africans in Africa than there were whites enslaving Africans in the New World. Leftists ignore this aspect of history. European whites being unique, evil, slavery-inventing devils is simply a lie. Slavery was invented before Christ was born.
Columbus himself advocated treating the natives with respect. But some of his Spanish crewmates did what conquerors have always done: exploit and enslave the conquered. This was a commonplace in the world of 1492, regardless of leftist propaganda
"They started with slave-owning Confederate generals, but they’re not stopping there. The vandals are only pretending to care about the character of particular American heroes. In reality, they hate what those heroes represent: the truths asserted in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Constitution. And they are bent on taking America down and replacing our free society with a socialist utopia. All that stands in their way is Americans’ reverence for our history of freedom." (Source: The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past, The Heritage Foundation)
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2021 storming of the United States Capitol
"Before the outrageous assault on the U.S. Capitol, before the rancor of the 2020 presidential election, before the mob violence that engulfed cities across our nation last year—long before all this, Americans had been engaged in a fierce struggle over the history, meaning, and future of the United States. The American Founders, it is worth recalling, faced an even more fearsome challenge: to bring together different views and competing factions to build a unified, federal, and democratic republic. The possible consequences of failure focused many minds in Philadelphia in 1787.
The American Founders
The anti-American radical leftist Marxists have a very special plan for the Founders—flush them down the nearest toilet
"Just so, the minds of many conservatives today are focused on another great task: defeating the progressive attack on our constitutional order and the moral legitimacy of the American Founding. Indeed, the ascendance of the progressive Left in politics and culture, and now the fury that has engulfed parts of the Right, can have only one result: an even more embittered and fractious society.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sought to bring the nation 'back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.'
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sought to bring the nation 'back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.'" (Source: For the Love of Country, Pull Back From the Brink, Joseph Loconte and Samuel Gregg)
In spite of there being a lot more conservatives than liberals, it is vital to realize that in the 1980s, liberal was the L word—a kind of curse, or at least liability; unfortunately, liberals have flipped the script since then and liberal is now good and conservative is evil, racist, wrong, unwoke
Americans —except Trump supporters—don't value democracy nearly as much as they used to; now our young support socialist and even Marxist government or at least 'democratic socialism' despite not understanding any of these things
There is an urgent need to depict the realities of socialism to the young Americans who have never heard of the Berlin Wall, the Gulag, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Tiananmen Square massacre, the daily bread lines in Moscow.
The leftist socialist wackos are going to be getting the NSA—or someone—to burn our Constitution
The core of the matter is Freedom. As anyone who watches the liberal elite knows, liberals have no respect for the Constitution, or conservatives, or freedom, or democracy. They respect socialism because they do not understand it. It is the biggest failure in all of history, also the bloodiest, most hypocritical, and most evil. It cost tens of millions of people their lives. They think they can utilize socialism to get equality—their current obsession. They think by adding the word "democratic" to socialism it will remove the evil taint. It won't.
As the Washington Post called the leftists' pretty dreams of a liberal utopia based on democratic socialism, it's an 'absolute fantasy'
Experts say that current circumstances are such that any attempt to aim for Scandinavian socialism will end up instead like Venezuela, the South American basket case. The liberal elite would preside, as near aristocrisy, over 350 million poor people, killing the economy as they tried out their liberal socialism, equality, and The Green New Deal, which even the liberal media admits is deeply flawed: "It would be economically cataclysmic and really for no meaningful climate benefit." As the Washington Post called it, it's an "absolute fantasy."
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The Green New Deal
Today’s socialists claim to model themselves on the “Socialism That Works” in Scandinavia, but the truth is they're opting for the ugly Venezuelan socialism model but are too dumb to see it. It is “identity socialism,” a marriage between classic socialism and identity politics. Sounds ugly! Putting liberal elites in power is the goal, and all the pretty words are simply manipulations. The country the elites envision is to be a utopia of socialistic equality, with the tiny exception of the elites running it—who will slowly evolve into an aristocrisy of the powerful elites lording it over the sheeple. It will be the new Feudalism—serfs carrying royalty. Royalty who will quickly opt for totalitarianism once the sheeple start rebelling against the sham of slavery with an equality label on it. See United States of Socialism: Who's Behind It. Why It's Evil. How to Stop It..
Liberal elites divide the country with identity group fights, then they leverage the mess to gain power, finally they elect themselves kings and queens but call their Venezuelan-styled tyranny Socialist Utopia, since it is great for them (but not for us!)
The Leftist Utopia will be the new Feudalism—serfs carrying royalty. Royalty who will quickly opt for totalitarianism once the sheeple start rebelling against the sham of slavery with an equality label on it
Consult your history books. What have the socialist leaders ALWAYS done? Whatever gives them the most wealth and power. No exceptions! The Biden-Harris administration is a recipe for the death of elections, democracy, freedom, most rights, the Constitution, and people-centered law and order. Progressivism may be the word, but your worst nightmare will be the reality. Tyranny awaits the unwary that buy into the lies of the Biden-Harris administration.
The central characteristic of all socialism is failure. Then why do leaders keep choosing it? The answer is ugly: To gain power and wealth for the leaders as it removes power and wealth from the populace!
Harris and her sock-puppet Biden have some interesting plans for us. They'll call it Equality Utopia. We'll know it as They Win, We Lose. A few liberal elites get wealthy and powerful while we get poor and oppressed
Harris and her sock-puppet Biden have some interesting plans for us. They'll call it Equality Utopia. We'll know it as They Win, We Lose. A few liberal elites get wealthy and powerful while we get poor and oppressed, just like socialism has always delivered. Check out How socialism turned Venezuela from the wealthiest country in South America into an economic basket case.
Big Media and Big Tech helped the liberals steal the election from Trump with their selective censorship. Democracy? It is gone as the leftists push us into their fascist version of "socialism" with the media and intelligence agencies goosestepping along in lockstep. Of such things coups are constructed.
This palace is where the Venezuelan leaders live, while the common people starve in slums, enduring hyperinflation (53,798,500% between 2016 and April 2019), escalating hunger, disease, crime and mortality rates, and mass emigration
Stepman tells us " . . . if the local public school is not doing a good job and not providing an education, not teaching the civic values that are essential to having a republic, pull them out of school, send them to a place that will teach that, homeschool your kids.
"There’s a lot of curriculum out there. There’s a lot of primary sources that teach kids about civics and about what this country is all about. And I think that’s on Americans because that’s vital. We live in a republic, we the people are expected to create our own laws.
When leftist wackos target Pilgrims (who landed at Plymouth Rock—shown), Thanksgiving, and Christmas, the real target isn’t really the Pilgrims and Puritans, it’s faith, family, and patriotism—it's America
"We’re expected to be, in some ways, more understanding of how politics works, how civics works, how our history is than other people who live under tyrannical governments. So that is essential to our wellbeing and our future. When leftist wackos target Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, the real target isn’t really the Pilgrims and Puritans, it’s the very heart of the Thanksgiving holiday, a holiday that—from its more modern origin in the 19th century—stands for faith, family, and patriotism.
When leftist wackos target Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, the real target isn’t really the Pilgrims and Puritans, it’s the very heart of the Thanksgiving holiday, a holiday that—from its more modern origin in the 19th century—stands for faith, family, and patriotism
[When liberal ass clown schools try to teach your kids to be pro-Marxist, anti-American, hateful, democracy haters, white male haters, the Founders haters, and anticonservatives, and your complaints to the teachers about replacing education with radical leftist indoctrination fall on deaf ears, ] Sometimes this takes fighting in a local school board, sometimes this takes pulling your kid out of school, and sometimes it just takes sitting down with your children and using some primary resources, using some books, and saying, 'Well, let me teach you about the Founders. This is what they stood for. This is why it matters to you, and pass these things along to other people as well.'" (Source: How the War on History Is Rewriting America’s Past, Rewriting America’s Past, Daniel Davis, Katrina Trinko, and Rachel del Guidice, the Daily Signal)
A potentially healthy debate over policing, race and history has degenerated into general lawlessness, as hordes of lawbreakers have swarmed and destroyed statues in our biggest cities from coast to coast
"Have we replaced government 'by the people' with rule by the mob? It certainly feels that way. A potentially healthy debate over policing, race and history has degenerated into general lawlessness, as hordes of lawbreakers have swarmed and destroyed statues in our biggest cities from coast to coast." (Source: Commentary: Mob rule threatens free society, Jarrett Stepman)
Jarrett Stepman does a great job of warning us of the tyranny to come—the statues are but a warm-up. We are about to submit our history and national integrity to the 1984 Ministry of Truth, which is centered on creating lies (such as the degenerate, racist 1619 Project—see 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project)