View from the right: Critical Race Theory seeks to tear down legitimacy of the nation – Norwich Bulletin

Martin Fey| For The Bulletin

There is a prevailing view on the left that American school children have traditionally been fed a sanitized version of their countrys history, and that the deficiency needs to be corrected via immersion in Critical Race Theory. The problem with this approach is that it veers too far in the opposite direction, indoctrinating children with the notion that theirs is a nation founded by corrupt White men. With the legitimacy of the Founders disparaged, it becomes easier to tear down the legitimacy of the nation those men designed. That, of course, is the goal of the left.

Leftists worship government, believing its power will eventually provide our collective salvation. Karl Marx went to that belief and beyond, asserting that government would eventually fade away as the dictatorship of the proletariat cleansed the world of economic injustices and animosity between peoples. Conservatives, and some Republicans, cling to the Founders belief that salvation is achieved by the individual, not the collective, and that only free people can improve themselves and their societies.

The 2016 election began a realignment of the American political system, with big business and Wall Street now solidly arrayed behind the Democrat Party and working-class voters, traditionally the base of the Democrat Party, shifting rapidly right. The Democrats admixture of government stimulus spending and the intertwinement of the interests of a powerful central government and big business is the essence of the fascist economic model. With an added emphasis on central planning it amounts to communism lite.

The Democrat Partys allies are more ambitious. Black Lives Matter, with a zeal for defunding the police in favor of people patrols, and the Antifa arsonists, who like Hitlers Brown Shirts act as terror troops for leftist causes, are full-on Marxist cabals that believe they can achieve the ultimate paradise -- communist anarchy by whatever force and intimidation is necessary.

The Biden administrations $3.5 trillion plan to allegedly rebuild the nations infrastructure (leftists like to redefine words, and that one is the latest) is an unprecedented all-out roulette bet on government wisdom and efficacy. If the bet fails, the chips will be gone. Fearing retribution at the polls in 2022, Democrats are trying to cram as much congressional pork down Americas throat as they can before then. We can also expect an effort soon to entrench their threatened power by packing new members onto the US Supreme Court and adding D.C as a state.

Democrats lament the recent transformation of their Republican opposition from traditional fiscal conservatism to nationalist populism under Trump, mostly because they know traditional Republicans were getting increasingly easy to beat. American voters will no longer support a party that cares more about free enterprise than people. To their credit, Republicans recognized their impending extinction and changed course with Trump. The party will not go back.

Now both parties express populist sentiments, but the nation is locked in an existential battle between those who believe America is a magnificent work in progress and those who believe it was irredeemably flawed by the existence of slavery until 1865. Christianity allows humanity a simple route to salvation from the original sin committed in the Garden of Eden, but the left makes no such allowance for the nation. Critical Race Theory, which is overt and covert in our schools today, is not intended to revise the history curriculum. It is intended to undermine the constitutional foundation and best traditions of the United States, so the nation will crumble and be rebuilt in the lefts own image.

History must be taught in context. Speaking from my public school and university experience, American history was never sanitized in Connecticut, although the emphasis was positive. We learned that Washington and Jefferson, despite their avowed belief that all men are created equal, owned and profited from large numbers of black slaves, and that references to slavery contaminated the original Constitution. We learned that Lincoln considered the idea of the federal government buying slaves from plantation owners and shipping them to Africa to eliminate the race issue. We dwelled long on how slavery was the real cause of the Civil War, and how the Democrat Party retaliated for the Confederacys defeat by instituting almost a century of Jim Crow laws. We read about the failure of the free market at the onset of the Great Depression and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. We learned about the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the hard-won victories of the Civil Rights Movement.

But unlike the absolutes taught in Critical Race Theory, that history was taught in context nations around the globe in the 18th and early 19th centuries engaged in slavery and, just as bad, colonialism. Few gave their average citizens true liberty. By lifting so many from serfdom and slavery to freedom, Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln were visionaries in their times, what Democrats would call progressives today. They should be celebrated for their vision, and forgiven flaws that were morally acceptable by the standards of the times.

Martin Fey is a member of the Quiet Corner Tea Party Patriots.

Visit link:

View from the right: Critical Race Theory seeks to tear down legitimacy of the nation - Norwich Bulletin