And then one day, for no particular reason, people were mad at statues.
– Forrest Gump, if he were alive today
In the divisive issue of what to do with Confederate statues around the country, one reason we should take a breath here and not engage in the politics of history is to understand the past. Totalitarian regimes such as the Nazis, Bolsheviks, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, North Korea’s Kim family, the Taliban, etc., all tore down statues about any history they did not like and rewrote all narratives to make themselves the heroes.
Yet the dream of the Saul Alinsky-left is to cause turmoil, rewrite history in its favor and divide a country to gain power in the resulting tumult. Every totalitarian movement manufactures an enemy; Hitler made the Jews his (and Germany’s) scapegoat. It never ends well.
The small number of 200 “white nationalists” in Charlottesville were able to get the attention of a nation of 330 million people by espousing idiotic views. What are white nationalists? They should just be called Klan Lite.