Anarchy

When the dominant voices in the culture are telling us at 10,000 decibels that our country is a racist cesspool, that it routinely treats a large segment of its population with callousness if not cruelty, that its history is a stain and its promise a fraud, that is going to have consequences.  We are starting to see them.  One aspect of the display is the widespread, sudden and shocking increase in violence, documented in this post.  Another, related aspect is in the attack on the monuments to our history  —  and not just Confederate monuments, which were a bait-and-switch  —  but on monuments to Lincoln, Grant, and Fredrick Douglass, among many others.

There was another attack last night.  John Hinderaker has the story

John’s entry is aptly titled “Warfare in Grant Park.” 

Last night Communist and Anarchist rioters attacked the statue of Christopher Columbus in Grant Park, Chicago. Police tried to guard the statue, and a pitched battle ensued, with 18 police officers injured and a dozen rioters–nowhere near enough–arrested. The rioters gained temporary ascendancy over the police, got control over the statue and attempted to pull it down, but without success–unlike the vandals who tore down the statue of Columbus on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol.

No one who saw the Grant Park riots during the Democratic convention in 1968 can witness these scenes without a sense of deja vu. As in 1968, these are not “protesters” or “demonstrators.” These are Communists or Anarchists (in practice, the same thing). Why do they go after statues of Columbus? Not because he was evil, which he wasn’t, although he certainly was a hard man. News flash: the commander who drove crews of ships, consisting of men who by our standards were almost unimaginably tough, to and fro across the ocean, was not Mr. Rogers. What a shocker.

But that isn’t the point. The point is that, in the eyes of radical leftists, the discovery of America was a mistake. The settlement of America by Europeans was a tragedy. Why? Because it led to what we have now–the United States of America. We are the target, not Columbus. It is the same with George Washington, by any standard a great and good man. Why do they attack monuments to the Father of our Country? Because he was the Father of our Country.

John continues to the easy, if regrettable, conclusion that more forceful steps should be taken against these criminals, while being justifiably skeptical that any such thing will happen, because in “too many cities, Soros-appointed prosecutors are happy to let them go, and are more likely to congratulate than to prosecute them.”