F.D.R.

WRONG ! The best way is for the woke and progressives to stop screaming about everything.

77Reaganite Loc: Athens, GA, United States

No the best way to calm everybody down in this country is to arrest everybody in the Deep State and everybody that's involved with the Trump collusion hoax and impeachment number one and number two once those people are in jail we can finally get back to normal if not it's just going to continue to get worse! That's why I can't wait for 45 to get back in the White House in 2024 so we can do just that!

keepuphope Loc: Idaho

Wonttakeitanymore

Then the uncivil war begins

Wonttakeitanymore

And vote Republican! Even liberal riven agrees!

Wonttakeitanymore

Pay attention!

elledee

Prosecute him for what!!!!!!

son of witless

Are you actually telling me that you are getting no tax credits or subsidies from the government ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

If you are, you are the first solar panel installed American to tell me that.

Smedley_buzkill

There was no abuse of power. I have finally realized that Hobbit Fart Sniffing Liberals are either too stupid or too stubborn to realize that bullshit opinions in RawStory are opinions, and all the facts in the world, all the SCOTUS and lower court decisions and direct quotes from US law don't mean anything to someone who considers RawStory a source of anything except lies for gullible morons to believe.

Smedley_buzkill

Stop wasting your time. Progs are beyond help. Most of them are poster children for invincible ignorance. Pointing out gullibility to a gullible fool won't make him any less gullible. Do you know how many times I have researched and posted court decisions and verbatim US law with links only to be answered with an op ed from a Liberal rag written by someone almost as stupid as their readers?

Drue-Marie

Is this why you want ONLY Eurocentric history in the classroom? You don't want your children to learn that Black Slavery was a good thing for everyone? Don't white people want to face the sins of their forebears?

Mikeyavelli

The abuse of power has been a tool of the left since Brockobamma slithered into the Whitehouse.
The kommiecrats have been trying to manufacture a crime that would eliminate Trump. Nice tries, but even if the kommiecrats succeed in prosecuting Trump, it will only embolden the trumpian movement. Already the 7 years of shenanigans have increased the number of ardent trumpians.
And we don't need no steeenking suggestions from RINO Lindsey Graham. When we take the streets, we'll win the war.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

At age 17 and again at age 24, I swore the oath to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and if you think the history of this great nation makes me feel bad about myself, then you too are dizzier than a monkey overdosed on meth, blinder than a dead canary in a coal mine, and more hypocritical than a Pharisee.

Who erected the statues of George Floyd and tore down the statues of George Washington?
Who destroyed statues of Robert E Lee, Francis Scott Key, and Ulysses S. Grant?
Who threw shit on the Lincoln Memorial and pissed on the statue of Liberty?
Who demonized our Founders and despises our military?
Who is teaching CRT and rewriting American history to include forcing companies to change brand names like "Aunt Jemima" and the military to change the names of its installations?
Who screamed "racism" at the names of professional sports teams?
Who burns American flags and attacks American police?

YOU, ya hypocrite, are an enemy of the United States.


Don't laugh off the left's attempts to change history
By Blaine L. Pardoe

This week, Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 Project tweeted, "Black people posed a danger to the country's idea of itself; they held up a mirror into which the nation preferred not to peer. So the inhumanity visited on Black people by every generation of white America justified the inhumanity of the past and the inequality of the present." She added, "The North did not fight the Civil War to end slavery."

At the start of the Civil War, she was, technically correct. The Union Army was just that: an army raised to preserve the United States. However, on January 1, 1863, President Lincoln changed the context of the war with the Emancipation Proclamation. For the next three years, the North was fighting to put an end to the institution of slavery and to bring the rebel states back into the fold. Let's not forget that the South initiated the secession because of the fear that President Lincoln and the North would abolish slavery in the first place.

This isn't the first attempt by the Progressives to rewrite our history. Most of these instances, such as the one above, are laughable — at least on the surface. Conservatives tend to view them with scorn. Instances like this latest tweet are glossed over and mocked. Yet they are out there, propagating a twisted narrative.

What is that narrative? The United States was never a great country. It was built by slaves and other oppressed people. It was flawed from its inception. Our country's iconic heroes such as Washington, Jackson, Jefferson, and others should be cast down because they owned slaves. Capitalism is a system of racial and social oppression that, by its nature, makes it corrupt and evil. There is no American dream. To the Progressives, America is so deeply corrupted that it must be changed from the ground up — starting with the history of the nation.

George Orwell wrote, "Who controls the past controls the future." The far left has adopted this mantra and is running with it. Leftists intend to reboot the United States. Our history, our true history, stands in the way of that. So do our American values, our love of country, and the moral center that our religions provide.

On the historical front, their solution is eloquent and dangerous: change the history as the basis for forging a new Progressive future. This is not just about rewriting history books. They will alter our money, removing the "undesirable" presidents and replacing them with approved Progressive icons. Monuments are already toppling and have been for years. It is easy to imagine the left demanding that the Washington monument be renamed, or that the Lincoln Memorial be replaced with something they deem more socially and politically acceptable. To underestimate how far they are willing to go is a mistake we cannot afford.

Our nation is not perfect. We have flaws, but we constantly strive to overcome them. Our leaders are far from being saints. In my lifetime, race relations are better than they have ever been. Some business people are corrupt, but our economic system has given millions the opportunity for a better life. We are one of the best nations to live on the Earth. We have fought wars around the globe to liberate oppressed people. We are a nation where anyone can become whatever he desires...if he puts the effort into it. We are prosperous, hardworking, and a deeply convicted people. The American glass is not half-empty; it is almost full. Yes, things could be better, and we are willing to undertake that work.

A nation that alters its history to fit current imaginary social constructs is doomed. Erasing a people's past does not make anything better; it serves only to foster division and hate. Tearing down works of art because you don't like the politics of the people they represent is the act of radicals and anarchists. No nation that has cast aside its past to fit an agenda has ever achieved lasting greatness.

Conservatives need to take a harder stand against these efforts. History is not a plaything for politicians with narratives to fulfill. History exists for us to learn from. Lying about it, altering its context, and attempting to change it for nefarious reasons will ultimately tear this country apart. History can be added to — but it is not there to be treated as a plaything. We run the risk of an entire generation of our youths not understanding where they come from, what they represent, or what they stand for. If we do not take a stand, they will be taught a story that has no bearing on reality — which means we will have already lost them.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Give me a friggin' break. The stupidest, most poorly educated, ill-informed, most retarded, brainwashed fools on earth are leftist progressive pull toys. You don't even know what country you live in.

keepuphope Loc: Idaho

We have faced our sins ..Lincoln Republican freed the slaves,Republicans fought for blacks to vote. Republicans fought democrats Jim Crow laws, Republicans make the Democrat lead kkk against the law. We have tryed to right the ship against blacks and democrats fought against us to keep their resist laws. We who live now are not guilty for the crimes our great grandfathers and grandfather's now in their 80s. We have tryed to correct this ATROSITY and marched with them. If all the blacks suddenly started voting Republican all the democrats would focus on is LGBTQ and illegals to vote for them because their starting to out number blacks and there's no need to pander to them anymore you would not get even a minimal support from them. And that is the truth.