The battle over America’s memory

America’s Leftists are spreading false rumours of widespread removals of slavery documents and displays. These same Leftists previously demanded the removal of Confederate statues and tore down memorials to Lincoln and the Founding Fathers.

- SCOT FAULKNER

‘The battle for America’s collective memory is erupting once again.

Leftists spent the last decade destroying America’s traditional identity and well-established historic narrative. The Left filled classrooms, books, articles, parks, and museums with their mantra of a nation “built on stolen land and byslave labor”. At the same time, they wantonly assaulted the physical touchstones of America’s origins by removing statues and other monuments.

The Left intended to replace the connective fabric of American society with an alternative reality promoting a tyrannical communist government. They embraced the cautionary words from George Orwell's “1984”; “Who controls the past controls the future”.

They are now howling from the rooftops as President Donald Trump is reversing their plans to reshape America.

America is unique. It isa country based upon ideas—notbased on geography, language, or tribe. Our historic sites and markers ground us in who we are, and why weare.

History is about collective memory and frames of reference. Statues and historic sites are there to commemorate and remind, not to celebrate. Knowing and discussing our origin is fundamental to a civic culture where shared values hold us together. Civil dialogue with those we disagreeis the structure that allows our institutions, our communities, and ourselves to exist.

Our Constitution is about forming “a more perfect union”. This means America is always a work in progress. The Constitution itselfis the greatest “rules of engagement’ for collective action that has ever been written. Looking beyond ourselves to our origins reaffirms our nation and our individual and collective roles init.