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2017-08-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

Buchanan: If We Erase Our History, Who Are We?

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-15 00:44|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I guess we need more statues of war criminal William T. Sherman laying waste through the U.S. state of Georgia. (We won't mention the Plains Indians.)

Posted by DooDahMan 2017-08-15 02:53|| 2017-08-15 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Slight correction - we're not erasing our history, lefties are.

Posted by Raj 2017-08-15 02:53|| 2017-08-15 02:53|| Front Page Top

#3 That's the Idea

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-15 03:35|| 2017-08-15 03:35|| Front Page Top

#4 We need to remember our history. All of it. The good and the bad. The noble and the dark side of our past as a nation. We haven't allways lived the ideals our founders espoused in the Declaration and Constitution. One of the problems with those who would impose their view of morality or social justice today on the past is they are all too often willing to find fault in all the actions of former generations. I can admire the courage displayed by the average Southern soldier during the American Civil War. Just as I can admire the courage of the men in the Irish or Iron Brigades. But I can also understand what the root cause of the ACW was. And how it still affects our lives today. And that cause was slavery. I can also understand how some elements in society both the North and South benifited keeping other human beings in bondage. And why some saw it as morally repungnent. It was the radicals on both sides that touched off actual conflict. Starting in Kansas and leading to prehaps the most divisive presidential election on American history. That of 1860. The question today is do we let the radicals on both sides drag us down the path again.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-08-15 06:12|| 2017-08-15 06:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Got to remember, the globalists are trying to destroy national identity. Thus the destruction of history as a common shared experience. In doing so they miss the warning that those 'evil' statutes represent, a form of tribalism. Those southerners were manipulated by their leadership to die to preserve their interests by exploiting the tribal identification which in 1860 was the state not the nation. They fought with their tribe be they Virginia, Georgia, Texas et al. They miss the warning of the break up of their Soviet Union along lines of long established tribes, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, et al. Their own practice of exploiting race, gender et al is just another form of tribalism. What they can't grasp that in their own efforts they are in the process of creating an even bigger tribe which they do not and can not control. When they erase their history, they remove the anchoring of those inherit aspects of Western Civ which includes tolerance and mercy that are so lacking in the history of other cultures. They will inherit the consequence.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-15 06:54|| 2017-08-15 06:54|| Front Page Top

#6 It's democrats removing statues that democrats put up. They own all of this - they are masters and commanders of all of this bullshit.

Posted by newc 2017-08-15 11:46|| 2017-08-15 11:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Buchanan may not be into erasing History, but he does seem to like re-defining it a lot.

Posted by Pappy 2017-08-15 14:50|| 2017-08-15 14:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Little different than ISIS blowing temples in iconic protest.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-15 15:10|| 2017-08-15 15:10|| Front Page Top

#9 In a picture of a group tearing down a stature of American history were hispanics. People from Central America.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-08-15 15:26|| 2017-08-15 15:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Robert E. Lee would be mightily offended, to see what sort of rabble imagine they are defending his honour, back here on Earth. He would think of them, and the other trash attacking them, in much the same way. He would look over the New South, and much prefer the old one. But he has better things to do now, and incontestable reasons to look away, look away.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-15 15:26|| 2017-08-15 15:26|| Front Page Top

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