Dear Friends,
It seems to me, even as democrats destroy America’s icons, they are studious about protecting theirs. On the one hand they say that icons are irrelevant, and to protect them is patriarchal, while on the other, skidding a tire on BLM or rainbow painted on the street… is a hate crime. How do we rectify these two incompatible stances? A statue takes months to produce, uses expensive metals and requires deeply skilled craftsmen to bring it to fruition. While a painted street takes only a few hours, and unskilled people can easily pull it off. So, the value and skill required of the thing desecrated, is not relevant to whether it should be protected. Moreover, a statue or monument signifies a singular event in our cultural and national history, while a painted street signifies a revulsion of them.
What we have then, is a major political party, that produces icons dedicated to the overthrow of liberty, free enterprise, limited government, objectivism and individualism… and that iconography is sacrosanct. While the iconography that represents the advances of Western civilization, like the elimination of slavery, mapping of the world, industrial revolution, medical discoveries, technology and inventions, all are subject to demolition by the democrat party. Placing the democrat party at odds with the American way. Making democrats unpatriotic but worse, traitors to the system that has given them not only the free time to engage in absurdity writ large, but the morality that they base their outrage on! A morality that they themselves are determined to destroy.
One thing we know happens when there is revolution… famine, disease and despotism always follow it. History is unambiguous on this fact. It is the rare revolution that leads to a better situation, and those are often countered quickly by the ousted elite. Dion is a perfect example of this. Of the thousands of revolutions across the centuries, only the Roman overthrow of Tarquinious Superbus and the American resulted in a better situation. Can anyone argue that Mao’s revolution improved the lot of the Chinese people? There are over sixty two million dead of famine, oppression and state crimes, who might say it was a bad thing. Revolutions destroy the economic stock of a nation, it puts the most violent revolutionary in power… both of which create the conditions for famine, despotism and disease.
Human suffering is only bad for those who suffer, and those of us with empathy, but it is a benefit to those who’s political power is derived from it. Constantly promising to solve the problems they created… if only they are given a little more power and money. Every failure of the administrative state and the faction that runs it is only proof they need more money and more power to solve the problems they created. Obviously, I am not a progressive and don’t argue as a progressive does. I am not saying that the administrative state invented famine, slavery, disease or despotism, as progressives say of Capitalism, they predate the administrative state as well as capitalism. What I am saying, is that the policies that the progressive faction pushes… lead inevitably to famine, disease and despotism.
A philosophical retreat from enlightenment modern principles to pre-Enlightenment post modernist principles is what the democrat party is after. Michele Obama herself told us what they had planned. We will have to make sacrifices, change our traditions, rewrite history and the conversation itself. You cannot rewrite history if there are memorials telling it, changing our traditions requires new iconography, the conversation is dominated by the progressive faction today, and we are being forced to submit to lock downs, masks and one sided propaganda… to make sacrifices, not the elite, just us. That is why progressive iconography is sacrosanct while US iconography must go. By reciprocal attribution, if iconography is fair game… it is fair game, all the way around. Else it isn’t.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
