{"id":2144823,"date":"2024-01-09T18:44:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-statue-toppling-is-a-dress-rehearsal-for-going-after-actual-people\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T23:46:40","slug":"democrats-statue-toppling-is-a-dress-rehearsal-for-going-after-actual-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-statue-toppling-is-a-dress-rehearsal-for-going-after-actual-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats&#8217; statue toppling is a preview of their intentions towards real individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-statue-toppling-is-a-dress-rehearsal-for-going-after-actual-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2144823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>The Battle Over Statues: A Political Power Play<\/h2>\n<p>The news that the\u200d Biden administration planned to remove a statue \u2062of \u2063William\u200b Penn in\u200d a federal \u200cpark in Philadelphia that commemorates the founding of \u2062Pennsylvania, and that the purpose of the removal was to &#8220;provide a\u2062 more welcoming, accurate, and\u200c inclusive experience for\u2063 visitors,&#8221; should at this point not come as \u200ba surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Once the\u2063 removals and \u200cdestruction of Confederate \u2063statues and memorials began a few \u200cyears ago, it \u2064was \u200dinevitable \u2064that all historical figures from America\u2019s past, even those with no connection to the Confederacy, would be \u2062subject to removal \u200dor \u2063destruction or\u2063 erasure.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why? Because the removal \u2063of statues and memorials by radical \u200dDemocrats has never been \u200dabout the \u200bpast, \u2064it\u2019s always been about the raw exercise of political power and the assertion of tyranny over a \u2064free people in the\u200b here \u2063and now. \u2063This has been true of commie revolutionaries for a long time now. \u200dSimply put, \u2062what they\u2062 do to statues is what they plan to do to their \u200bpolitical enemies. It starts with statues and \u200bbooks, and \u2063eventually ends with people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It hardly matters\u2064 that Monday evening, amid\u200c the public outrage that ensued\u200b when \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/biden-admin-removing-william-penn-statue-rehabilitation-park-commemorating-founding-pennsylvania\">news of\u2062 the\u200c Penn statue broke<\/a>, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh \u2062Shapiro <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovernorShapiro\/status\/1744502454048178194?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that he had intervened and that the \u200bstatue would remain where it is. Shapiro is a Democrat, \u200bso his effort \u2062to stop this is perhaps a \u200bsign \u200bthat Dems are\u200d beginning to sense the radicals among them have gone too far in their cultural warfare against\u2062 the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>But I wouldn\u2019t \u200dcount\u2063 on it. The fact \u2062that the\u2064 National Park Service planned to do this as part of a &#8220;rehabilitation&#8221; of Philly\u2019s Welcome Park (named for the ship, Welcome, which Penn took to Philadelphia in 1682) that envisioned an\u2063 &#8220;expanded interpretation of the Native American history of Philadelphia&#8221;\u2063 tells you the bureaucrats at \u2062NPS think \u200cthe Penn statue\u2019s presence in the park \u200dis a problem, \u2064somehow offensive\u200b because\u2064 William Penn was a white man.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t\u200c matter that \u200dthe same year he arrived, Penn signed a\u2062 treaty with the Lenape (or Delaware) people that lasted \u206275\u2064 years,\u2064 or that he went to great lengths to ensure \u2064the native people were treated well and paid fairly for their\u2063 land. It \u200ddoesn\u2019t matter\u2063 that \u200bPenn\u2019s entire purpose in \u2062coming to America was to establish a Quaker \u200ccolony\u2063 for religious freedom that also guaranteed things like free and fair trial by\u200c jury, free elections,\u2064 and other fundamental rights that would later make their way into the\u2064 U.S.\u2063 Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the context of the debate about statues and memorials, talking about \u200ball that\u2063 is\u2062 a waste of time. None of this has \u200canything to do with actual American history and\u200d everything to\u2064 do with\u200b politics \u2063and \u200dpower in the present. I have been <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/04\/09\/remembering-appomattox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defending Confederate monuments for nearly a\u200b decade<\/a>, \u200cever since a staffer at The New Republic decided the 150th anniversary of\u2063 Appomattox\u2063 was the perfect\u2062 occasion to argue for the desecration of \u200dConfederate grave markers in\u200d national\u2062 cemeteries.\u200b I\u2062 have <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/08\/18\/in-defense-of-the-monuments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained the history of Confederate statuary in great detail<\/a>, gone through \u2062the historical debates\u2062 and deliberations that \u2062led\u2063 to their creation,\u2064 and argued <strong>ad\u200b nauseam<\/strong> for the\u2064 preservation of these physical markers\u200c of our\u200d shared past.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A little over two\u200d years ago,\u200d I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/16\/removing-the-confederate-memorial-at-arlington-isnt-about-racial-reconciliation-its-about-political-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a lengthy\u200c piece<\/a> about the Confederate memorial in \u2063Arlington National Cemetery and why it should be left in peace. I \u2064went into some detail explaining how the memorial came to be there, how President William \u200bMcKinley, a decorated Union\u200b veteran who saw combat at Antietam\u200d and in the Shenandoah Valley, first \u200bconceived of the\u200c idea and inspired other Union vets to join the effort. Last month, the\u2062 Biden \u2064administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/army-removes-confederate-memorial-put-up-in-1914-from-arlington-national-cemetery\/ar-AA1mtRbu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dismantled and removed it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m not doing that anymore. From the moment the \u2063first essay was written calling for the \u200btoppling of Robert \u2064E. Lee\u2019s likenesses,\u2064 or the exhumation\u2062 of Nathan \u2062Bedford Forrest\u2019s\u200c bones, it was inevitable that these \u200bDemocrat revolutionaries would\u2063 soon move on to other historical figures \u200b\u2014 as indeed\u200d they did. And \u2062when we saw the\u2064 first images of a Black Lives Matter\u200c mob in the \u200dsummer of 2020 pulling down \u2063random\u2064 statues and defacing them with a mixture\u2062 of glee and\u2064 rage, it\u2063 was\u200b clear enough that\u2064 they\u2063 would eventually move on to actual people.<\/p>\n<p>Arguing about history with these people is pointless because they don\u2019t\u200d care about historical realities or subtleties or facts, they only care about power. So this is my simple\u200b argument from now on for \u200dthe\u2063 statue question: No statues should\u2064 come down, ever, for any reason. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s a \u2063statue of \u200dJefferson Davis waving a\u2064 Confederate flag, leave it where \u200bit\u200d stands.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Why do I say \u200bthis? Because once you grant \u200cthe premise that\u2064 there\u2019s\u200b a problem with these statues,\u200d that they are somehow offensive or harmful, \u200dthe contest \u2062is\u200d over and the \u200bradicals have won. And anyway, the premise \u200citself is totally disingenuous. \u200bThe \u2064 <strong>last thing<\/strong> Democrats want\u200d right now is unity and\u200b peace\u2062 among the American people. The idea that they genuinely believe toppling statues of historical figures \u2062from\u2062 our nation\u2019s past will bring people together is laughable and \u2064doesn\u2019t \u200bdeserve the dignity of a response.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At a time when\u200b President Joe Biden is openly campaigning for reelection \u2062by vilifying his political opposition as terrorists and \u200cinsurrectionists, and trying\u200c with all his might to jail his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-durham-probe\/\" title=\"Everything You Need To Know About The Durham Probe\">chief political rival<\/a>, former President Donald Trump, don\u2019t try to tell me he cares about creating more \u2063inclusive public\u2063 spaces,\u200c and that <strong>that\u2019s<\/strong> why his administration is so keen to topple statues.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not complicated. For Democrats, tearing down statues is a kind of dress rehearsal, not much different than book burning was for the \u2062Nazis.\u2062 They want to erase\u200d their opponents from American \u200bpublic life, \u2062and \u2064if they can\u2019t do\u200d it in an orderly and official way, they\u2019ll \u2063use a\u200c mob.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro&#8217;s intervention in keeping the William Penn statue in place affect the Democratic Party&#8217;s stance on the removal of statues<\/h2>\n<p><span>  N this case, William \u2062Penn \u2014 who did not align with their ideologies.\u2064 The\u200c removal and destruction of statues and memorials, therefore, is not a mere act of rewriting history or rectifying past wrongs. It is \u2064a calculated move\u200c to assert political power\u200b and impose \u2064their worldview on the rest of society.<\/p>\n<p>The trend of removing Confederate statues and memorials that began a few years \u2064ago was just the beginning. It \u2064was predictable that it\u2063 would\u2064 eventually extend to all historical figures from \u200bAmerica&#8217;s past, regardless of their connection to the Confederacy. The \u200baim\u200c of this movement \u200bis not \u2063to learn from history \u200bor critically analyze \u200bit but\u200d to erase it\u2064 altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cradical\u2064 Democrats leading this charge have shown that they \u200dare willing to go to \u2064extreme lengths\u2062 to \u200bachieve their goals. They use statues and memorials as a scapegoat, conveniently ignoring the fact that these physical markers serve as reminders of the complexities of history and the progress made \u200cover time. What \u200cthey do to statues today is a preview\u200b of what they plan to \u2062do to their political enemies tomorrow. This is not a \u200dbattle \u200babout statues; it \u2062is a battle for\u2063 power and control.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Governor Josh\u200b Shapiro&#8217;s intervention\u2064 to keep the William Penn statue in place may indicate\u200d a shift within the Democratic party.\u200c It suggests that some Democrats have realized \u2063the radical nature of \u2064the \u200ccultural warfare \u200dbeing\u200c waged against \u200bthe rest of the\u200d country. However, it is too soon to conclude that this\u2063 marks a broader change \u200din their strategy. The fact that the National Park Service\u200c deemed the Penn statue offensive \u200bshows that the bureaucrats believe its \u2063presence is problematic simply because Penn was a white \u200cman. They\u2064 disregard the significant contributions and positive actions of historical figures like Penn in favor of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-magic-is-leaving-the-kingdom-at-disney\/\" title=\"Disney's kingdom is losing its magic.\">narrow ideological agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>William Penn&#8217;s treaty with the Lenape people and his establishment\u2064 of a \u200bQuaker colony for religious freedom are \u2062irrelevant in the context of this debate. The defenders\u2063 of statues and memorials \u2062have long argued for their\u200d preservation based on historical context and the lessons they teach us. \u200bHowever, the radical Democrats\u200d leading the\u2063 charge do not care\u200d about historical \u200caccuracy or nuance. They view these symbols as obstacles to their political agenda and seek\u200c to erase them with no\u2063 regard for the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who\u200b has defended Confederate monuments for years, I have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">devoted extensive time<\/a> to explaining\u200c their historical significance and advocating for their preservation. But\u200b the ongoing\u200c assault on statues and memorials has reached a point where engaging\u2062 in these debates is\u2062 futile. The removal of the \u200bConfederate memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, despite its rich history\u200c and the efforts\u200b of Union veterans to \u200cestablish it, serves\u2063 as a clear example of the radical agenda at play.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, \u2063the battle over statues \u200bis not about preserving history or righting wrongs.\u2063 It is \u200ba political power play driven by radical Democrats seeking to impose \u2064their ideology on the rest of \u2063society. The \u2063removal and destruction of statues and memorials are symbols of their desire \u200cto erase and\u2062 rewrite history to \u2064suit their worldview. It is imperative that we recognize the true motivations behind this\u200c movement and stand against the erosion of our shared past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration&#8217;s decision to remove a statue of William Penn in a Philadelphia federal park, aimed at creating a more inclusive and accurate visitor experience, is not unexpected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2144824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2144824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}