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Home Front: Politix

Bill de Blasio buckles to the fringe

2021-10-16

[NYPOST] In the midst of the 2020 St. George Floyd

...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...
protests, New York’s City Council demanded in a pique of illiberalism that Mayor de Blasio remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall. Never one to shy away from a horrible idea, Hizzoner is now honoring this deeply anti-American request.

Thomas Jefferson. The author of the Declaration of Independence, the third president, and ironically, a founder of what is today the Democratic Party.

I suppose one can see why Blas would have disdain for Jefferson. After all he was a political figure with enormous accomplishments, while the mayor is best known for flushing two decades of progress in Gotham down the toilet in his two terrible terms.

De Blasio is acting like a guy in an action movie walking slowly away from a fire he set, adding statue toppling to his long resume of risible decisions as mayor.

Mayor de Blasio is pushing the Thomas Jefferson statue out from City Hall’s Council chambers.

But honestly, this has very little to do with Jefferson, or statues at all. This destruction of history symbolizes a progressive left that wishes to stamp out anyone it dislikes with Puritan zeal.

The idea that deeply flawed people, even by the standards of their own day, can do extraordinary and good things is as ancient as history and storytelling itself. The King David of the Bible commits terrible acts, adultery and murder among them, and yet still emerged as a heroic figure. History and its characters are complicated.

This is about far more than American history, it is about our basic humanity.

We celebrate Jefferson not because he owned slaves, but because he wrote the higher ideals in the Declaration to which this country has aspired.

Posted by:Fred

#2 I'm thinking he'll want to replace Jefferson with a statue of a criminal / drug dealer / thug like Floyd. After all Floyd embodies all that the Democratic Party values these days.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-10-16 10:33

#1 I think it's more like "he suckles from the fringe..."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-10-16 10:24

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