You probably missed that this is the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. That's because I haven't seen a single news outlet mention it yet. That's a far cry from when I was in second grade, and can remember hearing about the upcoming Bicentennial of 1976. Even before the year 1976 began, we were getting ready in school and hearing about our nation's plans for the upcoming celebrations on both local and national outlets. But then those who sought to destroy our nation and heritage, though coming into their own in various institutions of influence, were still a minority.
Fast forward to today. Since I haven't seen any television news outlet mention this yet, I Googled the actual 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution and this is what I got in the top results:
I think it's tough for us old timers to comprehend just how deliberate the war to destroy the Christian, Western Democratic tradition is. And how much it has achieved. Those cases of journalists and academics and others preaching the doctrine of racial discrimination, curtailing free speech, mitigating religious liberty, supporting government censorship, justifying proper uses of violence, and putting an end to the West and its bastard child America, have been doing yeoman's work to be sure. I doubt for them that this notable anniversary will be anything more than a bump in the road, if they bother to mention it at all.
Who knows? Perhaps Ken Burns's Revolutionary War documentary will remind us how blessed we are and how wonderful our country and its founding truly was. I won't hold my breath.
FWIW, I could say the same thing about the anniversary of VE Day. The 80th anniversary I should note. I did find a slew of stories from British outlets, including the BBC. But here in the US? Reuters mentioned it, and that's all. The call to either hate our history or at least forget its history is one of progressivism's key strategies. From what I have seen over the years, it appears to be working like a charm.
Trump was making plans for next year to be the big America 250 celebration.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.whitehouse.gov/america250/
https://youtu.be/N67-SSXHH_E?si=_B1McGB68n94Cd79
I wonder how much people won't talk about this because it would be too positive to him.
I'm sorry, the suggestion that Trump has done anything not stupid and evil and disastrous is a bit tough to accept. I have it on the best of authority from our national press outlets that everything he has done is 100% bad. Though you never know. For a not insignificant portion of our nation at this point, celebrating the birth of our 400 year old genocidal racist Nazi state could be seen as a negative. And in that case, who can tell?
DeleteThe Anniversary would be a good time to talk about what the American Revolution was actually about: the rights of British subjects and the necessity of separation from those authorities who were violating those rights. Nothing to do with building an egalitarian utopia, as most of our elites seem to believe. --- G. Poulin
ReplyDeleteYep. That would be nice. I came into the school scene in the 70s (it was still more or less what you said - for kids), and then high school and college in the 80s (where it was increasingly a bunch of whiny rich guys wanting special privileges for their own benefits, duping the masses with their slick propaganda), and then by the time my sons were in public school in the 00s, it was increasingly the racist, genocide, slave trade spin. In college, my son ran into those who believe the whole revolution and rebellion was just for them to shore up their slavery institution as England was becoming more open to slavery's abolition (forgetting the anti-slavery sentiment gaining steam in the colonies of course). I personally like the take a professor of mine had in my undergrad days. It was men smart enough to know that if they didn't draw a line in the sand, there would be no stopping it the next time a new right was taken away. Which is what we're seeing, courtesy of those elites who once said it was all about that egalitarian utopia - irony.
DeleteI have actually noticed this as well. When we read our annual reading of Paul Revere‘s ride, I realize it was the 250th anniversary of it. I posted about it in the local history, museum, put up to lanterns in our clock tower or something, but even locally there wasn’t a lot of traction. It seems on the East Coast, in some enclaves anyway, still celebrated it with reenactment, but I was shocked it was not all over the place otherwise!
ReplyDeleteAt this point I'm never shocked. I think we must remind ourselves that a significant portion of our nation, especially among our youth, have been taught to despise our country and everything to do with it. Historical ignorance has been key to this. If pressed, people can pull the old 'sure the world did bad things, but it was worse in America' trick. Better yet is simply ignoring the past when possible, as we're seeing today.
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