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To conquer a nation, rob it of its historical past and heroes.
That’s a fast abstract of Marxist strategy, and it’s precisely what the American left has been up to.
President Donald Trump used the 250th celebration of our nation’s founding to warn of Marxists’ efforts to cancel our heroic Founders and erode our longstanding values.
“You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You can’t be both,” he declared at Mount Rushmore on Friday.
The gravest hazard America faces in the present day isn’t a international energy or a international pandemic: It’s the ideological takeover of our younger people’s minds by way of our academic and cultural establishments.
This Independence Day was a call to motion in the warfare in opposition to that menace.
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It was an alternative to inform America’s superb story in order that youthful generations embrace the values that made this nation free and affluent: individualism and respect for property rights, not group grievances and utopian collectivism.
In communism, there are no heroes, solely oppressors and oppressed — and if you strip a nation of its heroic previous, you restrict its future aspirations.
Ordinary Americans get that.
Some governors don’t.
When each state was invited to outfit a sales space on the National Mall to have fun its distinct contributions to America,10 governors — most affected by Trump Derangement Syndrome — refused to take part.
They performed proper into the Marxist nihilists’ palms.
So undaunted patriots from these states traveled to Washington, DC, on their own dime — and crammed the cubicles themselves, as an alternative of letting them sit naked.
Donna Festinger, a retired instructor from Greenfield, Mass., drove 9 hours to distribute 300 miniature maple syrup bottles, donated by a bottler in Shelburne, and different Massachusetts merchandise to fairgoers.
Seattle radio host Ari Hoffman flew to DC and stepped into the breach left by Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson.
“He claimed they didn’t have a booth for budget reasons, but spent $5 million on trans surgeries for convicted felons,” Hoffman fumed, as he handed out American flags and pocket copies of the Constitution.
When Connecticut’s Gov. Ned Lamont introduced his boycott, I printed up massive portraits of favourite sons Roger Sherman, Oliver Ellsworth and William Samuel Johnson — all signers of the US Constitution — plus the celebrated Revolutionary War hero Nathan Hale.
I went to DC on July 3 and used Connecticut’s in any other case barren sales space to inform their immortal tales.
The subsequent day, state lawmakers Rob Sampson and Gale Mastrofrancesco greeted guests to the sales space.
All of us got here to have fun our nation’s heroes and our historical past, which the Marxists need to eviscerate.
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They call themselves democratic socialists.
“Doesn’t that sound pretty?” Trump requested final week. “They’re actually communists.”
Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dodges it by falsely claiming, “How a person identifies in their economic view of the world is less important to people than if we’re making their groceries more affordable.”
Don’t buy that harmful deception: Our nation’s prosperity hinges on perpetuating our values of free markets, individualism and property rights.
Those values and affordability go hand in hand.
Average particular person wealth in the US is eight occasions that of collectivist China, and 4 occasions the average wealth in the extremely regulated economies of Western Europe.
But self-described democratic socialist candidates are scoring victories throughout the nation, and younger voters are the most receptive.
A new Cato Institute survey discovered that a staggering 58% of Gen Z voters select socialism over competing financial systems, with communism and capitalism vying for second place.
That’s a wake-up call.
The July 4 festivities had been a begin, however rooting out the far-left indoctrination that’s burrowed into our faculties and tradition will take more than a celebratory weekend.
On Monday, the White House blasted the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for “refusing to celebrate the Nation and its history,” as an alternative telling a story of “regret, tragedy and shame.”
It’s demanding speedy reform of the Smithsonian’s biased representations.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is launching a new History of Communism commonplace in Florida faculties to show college students the “catastrophic failures and human suffering caused by communist regimes,” in the phrases of state schooling commissioner Anastios Kamoutsas, the grandson of refugees from the Castro regime.
Those of us in blue states have little hope for a related initiative, however we are able to take more control of what our youngsters and grandchildren are studying.
When I used to be a child, I spent hours at the native public library studying each biography of great Americans I may discover, from Paul Revere to Clara Barton to Thomas Edison.
Biography teaches that people, not teams and lessons, make historical past. Heroes encourage.
When children go to school, it’s onerous to keep away from Marxist indoctrination.
Instead of laughing it off, set them straight about the brainwashing they’re getting — and what they should study from heroes like George Washington or Douglas MacArthur.
America has a great story to inform.
Tell it nicely and the Marxists will lose.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.
