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DEMONIZATION OF REPUBLICANS

Eric Martindale • Jan 31, 2019

Trump is always portrayed negatively

What is a Republican? Are Republicans racist? The Far Left will immediately make that association. It is the epicenter of their toxic political message, and the main force behind their “get out the vote” effort. But how much truth is there to
this.


First, if anyone expresses pride in America, the Far Left will say “See I told you, listen to all that nationalism crap, that’s white supremacy”. Pride in America is not racist. Americans have the right to say we are the greatest country in the
history of the world. The American Revolution caused democracy to replace monarchies throughout the world. The freedoms we outlined in our founding documents ultimately led to the abolition of slavery, a free press, democratic
elections, freedom of religion, and women’s suffrage worldwide. These could all be considered “liberal” advances, in a broad sense, compared to the “conservative” monarchies. The Welcome Movement continues to differentiate
between “Far Left” and “liberal”, with the latter being acceptable, and the former being extremist.

This progress happened in phases here at home, as it took time for people to catch up with the overall American vision. No, the Founding Fathers didn’t abolish slavery and give equal rights to women, and had they tried, the
American Revolution would not have had the necessary public support to succeed. Progress happened in phases, first for all White men, then for all men, and then for all men and women. Americans have generated great advances in
science, technology, engineering, medicine, and the Arts. We saved the world from conquest by evil forces twice. First in World War II, and then in The Cold War. We have every reason to be proud of our country.

Second, the Far Left wants to define Republicans as an unholy coalition of greedy rich people and uneducated racist working class Whites who have been fooled into supporting capitalism and President Trump. This toxic message from
the Far Left is especially strong in our inner cities, where Republicans are so non-existent that the average inner city resident is just not meeting them, interacting with them, or even reading their posts on social media. Their views
are instead molded by the most toxic form of identity politics in the history of our nation.

Doesn’t every group, political or social, have the right to define for themselves what they stand for and whom they represent? Republicans overwhelmingly oppose racism, period. There are a few main types of Republicans, and racism
is antithetical to each. We can’t speak for every person. Yes, there are Republicans that are racist, and there are Democrats who are racist as well, including both Whites and minorities. What’s important is to look at what each type of Republican stands for. Let’s explore a few of the most common types:

TYPE #1: LIBERTARIANS. They believe everyone is equal and should have the same rights. Here’s a snippet straight from a libertarian website:

The libertarian or “classical liberal” perspective is that peace, prosperity, and social harmony are fostered by “as much liberty as possible” and “as little government as necessary.”

With a long intellectual tradition spanning hundreds of years, libertarian ideas of individual rights, economic liberty, and limited government have contributed to history-changing movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, and the civil rights movement.

Libertarian is not a single viewpoint, but includes a wide variety of perspectives. Libertarians can range from market anarchists to advocates of a limited welfare state, but they are all united by a belief in personal liberty, economic freedom, and skepticism of government power.

Is there anything remotely racist here? Libertarians believe this a social order that would work if everyone was productive and personally responsible. Minorities of all types are openly included. Aspects of libertarianism are clearly
articulated in the founding documents of our republic, and most libertarians believe in a strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

TYPE 2: THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT. Christians, whether they are Democrats or Republicans, are compelled by their Faith to believe that everyone is equal in the eyes of God. The Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) makes
a strong statement against xenophobia, straight from the mouth of Jesus. If a Christian does feel or express racism, they need to read the Bible and pray. Every traditionally White Christian church in my home State of New Jersey has
large numbers of minorities. White congregations simply don’t exist here. Most of the Far Left never steps foot in a church, so they don’t know about this diversity, nor how Christians have embraced it. Christian churches are typically
mixed politically as well, with Democrats, Republicans, and Independents all well represented.

The Christian Right places a high value on Faith, family, and community, and typically shuns protests and divisive politics emanating from both political camps. Classic characteristics including speaking passively, being humble
before God, acting and dressing modestly, being financially responsible, and shunning gambling, promiscuity, materialistic lifestyles, and substance abuse. Most of the “never Trumpers” in the 2016 Republican Primaries were devout Christians. The true Christian outwardly displays a spiritual persona, and is overflowing with love for all of humanity. They make good friends, good neighbors, good parents, and outstanding grandparents. They are just decent
honest people.

In the mid-1800’s, the Christian Right were the first Republicans, and they organized politically specifically to fight for the abolition of slavery. In the early 1900’s, they led the women’s suffrage movement, and even some environmental
causes. I knew Julia Lamb, one of the last surviving active members of a woman-based Republican environmental movement in New Jersey. The New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs championed the preservation of The
Palisades as early as 1895, only 3 years after the founding of the Sierra Club in California. These women, mostly Republicans, made the environmental movement socially acceptable, and brought it to the front door of America’s
largest city. They won, and they helped inspire President Teddy Roosevelt.

There’s a myth on the Far Left that the parties have flipped, and this type of Republican no longer exists. Not true, the parties pivoted, but didn’t flip. This kind of Christian Republican still exists, and they are even more supportive of
racial equality than their predecessors in past generations. Just as it took time for the principles of equality written in the Declaration of Independence to be fully implemented, it also took time for the smug and condescending philosophy
of the “White Man’s Burden” to evolve into an embrace of true equality. The modern understanding of Christianity is much closer to the actual Word of Jesus now than during the Abolition Movement.

(3) ECONOMIC CONSERVATIVES believe that there is a level playing field for all people and all races. They believe that our capitalist system needs very few changes or improvements other than cutting taxes, and that anyone of any race
or ethnic background has the right to advance and be successful. While I personally offer major populist reforms to that perspective, I do not believe that the economic conservative position is racist. Economic conservatives include African-Americans who have come to despise the "Democratic Plantation" that keeps minorities down and out, and farms
them for votes. These include people who have moved up to the suburbs, and then look down on their old neighbors and family members who remain behind, instead of mentoring urban youth or volunteering to help in some other fashion.

Economic Conservatism descends in shades of grey towards Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism is the intellectual foundation of multi-level marketing organizations, and it can be found in Orthodox Judaism and the Mormon Faith, although they don’t use that term.

Social Darwinism holds that it is entirely justifiable if groups of people either prosper or fail based on whether or not they as strong a value system when it comes to faith, family, work ethic, education, and especially economic
education. Taken in the most extreme form, this allows some groups of people to prosper, have many children, and advance their community.

Those familiar with my website know that I fully advocate capitalism as the best economic system to advance technology and human civilization, but I oppose Social Darwinism. It is not a populist theory, for sure, because too many people are left behind to suffer. I want to uplift everyone economically, and have everyone’s support. Pursuing these ends while embracing conservative values is the basis of Economic Populism. Nevertheless, the point must be made that Social Darwinism is based on values, not on race.

Fortunately, most economic conservatives do not support Social Darwinism, and some even go out of their way to help teach the best principles of economics and success to minorities.

Economic conservatives include people of all races and ethnic backgrounds who have fled the inner cities to escape the social ills and the failure of the Great Society program. Some will say: “Oh look, they left the cities to get away from
all the poor minorities, that’s racism”. Is wanting better schools for your kids racist? Is it racist to not want to wake up
in the morning to see that your car parked on the street has been stripped of its rims and tires, and the chassis is left sitting on a cinder block? Is it racist to want to go out to eat with your family, and not have to worry that your home is being robbed while you are out? Is it racist to be disgusted with the incompetence and corruption of the urban political machines?

The high crime and the failing schools of our urban centers is a very real problem. It’s not inherently racist to recognize it, or to want something better. My main criticism of mainstream Republicans is that they characteristically offer
no solutions to those problems, other than to move out. Yes, there are solutions, and they start with spiritual development, community empowerment, providing affordable housing, and mentoring the youth. If each person is improved, society as a whole will improve. Getting back to that basic conservative perspective is the starting point for progress. Most urban “progressives” want to start with personal expression, protesting, and identity politics. Not only is that not the starting point, it’s all counter-productive.

These three most common types of Republican are the heart and soul of the Republican Party. None of these three types are racist. Every one of them seeks to include anyone and everyone, without regard to their race or national origin.

Persons who are racist, homophobic, or misogynist are mostly members of fringe third parties and radical organizations that we do not support. They are the outskirts of the Republican Party, and beyond. The Democratic Party has
even uglier outskirts, and beyond.

Rather than deal with the truth regarding the three primary types of Republicans, the Far Left would rather announce that every Republican is a racist, a hater, a misogynist, a homophobe, and basically an all-round "deplorable". The forces pushing them in this direction are overwhelming. It’s been proven that the best way to get out the Democratic vote is to vilify and dehumanize Republicans as racist and evil. When politics is governed by hate and fear, it’s become clear that the Bahai’s are correct is saying that politics is inherently corrupt.

Identity politics has to be called out and identified as TOXIC. It started in the 1960’s with Saul Alinsky, and it’s been building and building for half a century. The longer it goes on, the more it fuels division and disunity. And now that many
Republicans have are increasingly doing the same thing in response, we are at or beyond the point of no return. This could lead to a major constitutional crisis, and even the destruction of our nation. Millions upon millions of voters are being indoctrinated into the toxic politics of hate and fear. Even people who consider themselves to be intelligent, empathetic, and concerned with public policy have been “sold” on this approach of demonizing Republicans.

The problem of toxic politics is most intense in our urban centers. The firstphase was for Republicans to become a “them” in a great class warfare scheme, along the lines of Saul Alinsky. Now, we are deep into the second phase, which is that everything commonly associated with Republicans is considered to be evil or at least suspect. This includes:

  • Christianity
  • Capitalism and corporations
  • Wealthy people
  • Suburban and rural areas
  • Straight men
  • Caucasians
  • The military
  • The American flag,
  • Pride in America
  • A closed national border, and even
  • America as a nation.

The goal of the Far Left is to demonize all of the above in addition to the Republican Party. By doing so, they hope to unify all the protest groups to crush “the evil oppressors”.

I have witnessed this first-hand living for almost 11 years living in the City of Newark. In Newark, the social activists fall primarily into two camps, Black Muslims and the LGBTQ community. These two camps have an unspoken
political alliance, even though they privately hate each other. Their alliance is to be opposed to Republicans, and to dismiss as racist everything I just listed above that is commonly associated with the Republican Party.

These two camps completely control the social and political scene in Newark, and other urban centers. Of note, there are a handful of people who fall into both camps, meaning they are LGBTQ Black Muslims. Yes, that is possible. And
those are the voices that are the most phenomenally opposed to everyone Republican, and everything commonly associated with the Republican Party. They are also the strongest supporters of former President Barack Obama, who
is revered and adored as the greatest American who has ever lived.

You’ll see this pattern in city after city, and it’s most pronounced where tenants have little or no rights, where rents have risen to a crushing level, and where code enforcement is almost non-existent. We, as a society, are literally breeding a Socialist revolution in our urban centers. People are fed up and furious in urban centers from New York to Portland, Oregon. This is the new voice of the Democratic Party, and they consider traditional Democrats to be little better than Republicans. The future of politics is getting uglier, not better.

My very recent experience living in Newark and being involved in social and political affairs gives me a perspective unique among conservatives. It’s like I’ve come from the future, and I have a message of what’s coming. I see the future
of America in Newark, and it scares me to death. Central to the mission of the Welcome Movement is to offer an alternative. There must be a vision of unity and economic populism. There must be a movement that counters the ugliness of identity politics.

I have to make the observation that President Trump’s reforms of the Republican Party are pushing the Party in the direction of becoming the Party of the common White man, instead of being the Party of the wealthy and big
corporations. Viewed from the Far Left perspective of identity politics, this is very threatening, but ironically, it’s only a hair’s width from true progress for all men and women of all races. How is this possible? The situation has to be
viewed through a paradigm shift. Whatever is done to advance the economic interests of the common White man will at the same time advance the economic interests of EVERYONE. This is actually starting to happen with the current all-
time low unemployment levels for African-Americans and Latinos.

Does this sound familiar? It should, it’s happened before. Look at history. Everything our Founding Fathers established was for all White men to be equal and to live in a free and just society. Then over time, that vision and those lofty
words were expanded to include women and minorities. Once again, progress is happening in phases. Donald Trump has started to move the Republican Party in the direction of becoming the Party of the common White man. The next step is for it to become the Party of all common people, all men, all women, all immigrants and minorities. We all have the same economic interests. What is good economically for the common White man is good for everyone. That’s the
paradigm shift. This is all part of the grand vision of the Welcome Movement.

What the Republicans have been shockingly lacking is the political wherewithal to accept the paradigm shift, and transition it into an economic populist perspective that can be openly seen as being for the benefit of everyone, not just the common White man. Making that happen is one of the central missions of The Welcome Movement. The Republican Party has to fully embrace everyone, welcome everyone, and end the ugly rhetoric on immigrants. We can
still have a closed border, without demonizing immigrants. The passive Christian approach has great merit. This change in tone would present a striking alternative to the toxic identity politics of the Far Left. The Republicans need to
offer a crystal clear alternative to the Democrats in terms of tone, and in terms of welcoming and embracing everyone. This would overshadow the issues that divide the parties. Follow my lead, and 2020 will be landslide for the Republicans. Probably they should hire me as a campaign consultant.

I take great inspiration from Harry Pozycki, a liberal Democrat who founded The Citizens Campaign, based in Metuchen, NJ. Pozycki has lain out a “No-Blame” approach for urban problem solving, and he is well known for saying ‘We’re all
doomed if we can’t work together in a rationale and bipartisan fashion to offer solutions to urban problems’. One day Pozycki came to our monthly meeting in Newark and said that he was surprised to learn that conservative and
Republican legislators love his plan for all students in New Jersey to take civics classes and learn about government and how the system works. He was alarmed that some of them want the curriculum to include the 2nd amendment.
Hey Harry, I picked that up on that one in about one nano-second. Conservatives call it a “Constitutional” approach. As kids learn about the Constitution, and the principles of being a positive agent of change in their community, they’ll develop a level of personal responsibility to want to advance public policy. This is an inherently conservative perspective. But if most of the kids follow Pozycki’s politics and they stay liberal Democrats, that is perfectly
fine, and long overdue to counter the Saul Alinsky approach. I respect that kind of Democrat, and I can work with them any day on any issue.

The changes that Pozycki is spearheading for the Democrats in New Jersey’s urban centers, I want to do for the Republicans. And I want to do it nationally.

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It’s Columbus Day, and time again for the annual tradition of historical revisionists and haters of Christianity to bash Christopher Columbus. I want none of it, and I couldn’t care less if he was Spanish, Italian, or Jewish. The case in favor of Christopher Columbus is the case for Western Civilization. If you believe that the progress of the world is being guided by the growth and maturation of Western Civilization and the spread of Christianity, then Columbus Day should be celebrated. If you believe that some other value regime is better for the world, chances are you want to vilify the man. That’s how the battle lines are drawn. History is ugly, plain and simple. It’s full of invasions, wars, slavery, oppression, famine, and misery. That didn’t start with Columbus, or with The Crusades. Not even with the Muslims that plundered and invaded the Mediterranean and southern Europe for hundreds of years, leading to the counterassault known as the Crusades in the Middle East, and as the Reconquista in Spain and Portugal. No, the evils of the world go back thousands of years, far before the founding of Christianity and Western Civilization. The glass of history isn’t half empty, it is half full. What really matters is the advances that we have today in engineering and technology, in medicine, in computers and electronics, in the arts and sciences, and in economics, literature, government, and democracy. These advances have occurred because Western Civilization and the social structure of Christian society allowed these advances to occur. Yes, there were bumps in the road like what happened to that Copernicus guy, but progress still occurred. Despite our flaws and despite all of the inequalities and injustices remaining, humanity and civilization has greatly advanced under the Christian Western system. Thank you Jesus, and thank you Columbus. This is our history, and what matters most is where we have arrived. I openly acknowledge that much work remains to be done. If I thought we were done with the need for advances, my Welcome Movement website and blog would not have been created. I would be singing the praises of Donald Trump instead of advocating that he become more Christian, more humble before God, and less crass and domineering. Christopher Columbus is important and must be honored because he’s at the very center of the progress of Western Civilization. It doesn’t matter that other explorers and pioneers set foot in North America long before Columbus. Let me explain. Yes, the Chinese visited our West Coast, and mapped it out. They referred to America as “Fusang”. The Japanese were here as well. The ancient Minoans from Crete had massive copper mines in Upper Michigan and Minnesota. The largest mine on Isle Royale in Lake Superior is called “Minong” by the Native Americans, obviously a reference to Minoan, as is the place name of Minnesota. I wonder what Sota means in ancient Minoan? I’ll put my money on cold or snow. The ancient Egyptians were here, and the Carthaginians. Maya or Maya Rata is an ancient region of Sri Lanka as well as the name of a modern province in that country, with architecture identical to that of the Mayan civilization in Mexico, and dating to the same time period. Many words, and some cultural practices and beliefs are the same in both regions, and their calendars are in synch. To this day, South Asian DNA remains a significant component in the Yucatan, Belize, and Guatemala. Here’s one of many sources on this connection https://thegr8wall.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/similarities-between-the-hindu-the-maya-culture/ There are hundreds of Muslim place names in America, from Allamunchy in New Jersey to Tallahassee in Florida. There are Medina’s and Mecca’s in multiple states, and even American towns with exact place names for small towns in Turkey. Almost all of them have the same story, which is “the place name was Native American in origin.” Native Americans in the Eastern United States and the maritime provinces of Canada fear taking ancestry DNA tests, and they bitterly resent the findings showing substantial DNA from the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. They call it the curse of the Middle Eastern DNA. Rather than accept these DNA results at face value, modern geneticists have come up with a twisted theory called The Founder Effect to try and justify the findings. It’s a really bad case of science starting with a conclusion and working backwards to find the evidence to support it. I’d love to see Elizabeth Warren’s full DNA results. No doubt it shows substantial Middle Eastern DNA, and that may be why her test result showed almost no “Native American” DNA, to her great embarrassment. The actual origin of Native Americans, especially the Creek and Cherokee, is a matter of major discussion all over the internet. https://accessgenealogy.com/native/cherokee-dna.htm and https://www.woowoomedia.com/dna-scientists-claim-that-cherokees-are-from-the-middle-east/ Yes, the Muslims were here in America in huge numbers. The famous Piri Reis map was compiled in 1513 by an Ottoman Empire admiral using older source maps that no longer exist. The Piri Reis map shows amazing detail of places not yet reached by European explorers as of 1513. Columbus records in his log encountering a wooden sailing ship on the coast of Jamaica, with occupants in colorful clothing. He could not discern their place of origin, but the Native Americans had no ships. There were Black settlements in Nicaragua and Costa Rica prior to the slave trade, and likely founded by Muslim traders from Senegal and Guinea. They left gold artifacts with an unusual alloy mix identical to gold produced in Guinea, West Africa, and found nowhere else in the world. Various European groups such as the Vikings, the Basque, the Welsh, the Irish, and the Templars were likely in America as well. Their contact may have been more fleeting, but they also left various artifacts. The explorer Giovanni Verrazano was the first modern European to visit what is now Newport, Rhode Island. His log and his map note a stone tower which is still standing and shrouded in controversy. It’s clearly of European architecture, and it has been repaired and repointed so many times that nobody knows for sure who first built it, or when. Carbon dating of mortar can only prove when a repointing occurred, not when the stones were lain. Here’s one of hundreds of theories on the tower. http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/did-giovanni-verrazano-visit-the-newport-tower Doesn’t all of this make the case that Columbus was not so important? Not at all, just read on. What was the result of all those settlements and civilizations from all those great peoples from all of those places? What came of them? What lasting advances were made? How was the world made a better place? The answer is nothing. Nothing at all. The Muslims in particular were all over North America and left so many place names, but the physical and cultural contact was largely lost at least 200 years before Columbus, and the religion was extinct in the West by the time the Europeans colonists arrived. The contact that really mattered was the contact made by Columbus in the name of Kingdom of Spain. And that contact came only months after the last Muslim forces in Spain surrendered, and the Reconquista was complete. The knowledge of Columbus’s voyage swept Europe, and led to the major European powers exploring and settling the America’s. A vast exchange of plants and animals occurred called The Columbian Exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange It is considered an epic event in world history. The connection of the Old and New worlds had a profound impact on all of humanity. Europe accumulated massive wealth and power, and overpopulated from the new calorie-rich food supplies, especially corn and potatoes, that were imported and grown all over Europe. Much of that overpopulation was sent to other parts of the world as conquerors and immigrants. There was nothing like the Columbian Exchange resulting from any of the earlier civilizations that visited America. Cattle, sheep, pigs, and horses didn’t make it to the New World with the Minoans, Mayans, Muslims, or any other Pre-Columbian group. Turkeys, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and tomatoes didn’t arrive in Europe either. There was no massive collapse of the Native American population from disease, and the migrants from the Old World in those past eras eventually mixed with the Natives and lost their cultural identities. The next question is, was the Columbian Exchange a good thing? Would the world have been a better place, or advanced quicker, without this exchange. The answer is probably No. Human civilization had several opportunities for civilization to greatly advance in the past, and become “modern”. Ancient Egypt was very advanced in many regards, and even today with our best modern technology, we could not build the great pyramids. There are depictions in Egyptian art of devices that look like flying machines and even lightbulbs. Another drawing shows a baby mammoth, perhaps from Labrador? Airplanes may have flown the skies of ancient India as well. The Muslim World was very advanced around the year 1000. They also experimented with electricity and had batteries. They made spectacular advances in science and mathematics, and they founded the world’s first true universities. Timbuktu in Mali had a university before any in the Christian world. The ancient Chinese used natural gas for lighting and heating, and possibly manufacturing. They had thousands of miles of natural gas pipelines made out of bamboo. Their naval armada sailed all around the Indian Ocean, and contained huge wooden ships called junks that were far larger than those of any European power. Well, what became of these civilizations and their advances? The answer is about the same as what became of the explorers and settlers that reached America before Columbus. That answer is very little. Those civilizations reached their glory days, and then faded. That’s why they deserve to be little more than historical footnotes. It’s the history of the Christian West that really counted. What succeeded was the work of Columbus, and all the advances in Europe that happened only because the European powers extracted so much wealth from the New World, and benefitted from trade. In the 1700’s something happened in England and the American colonies that never happened any time in the history of the world. We experienced the Industrial Revolution. All of the world has benefitted. The Industrial Revolution happened within the context of Christianity and Christian civilization. It didn’t happen in ancient Egypt, Baghdad, or China. There is something about our Western value system, our views, and our perspective on the world that lends itself to social and economic development, and to democracies replacing monarchies. A key series of events occurred. First, the Renaissance led to the invention of the printing press in Germany by Johannes Guttenberg. Second, the mass printing of The Bible made the Protestant reformation inevitable. Third, the Protestant reformation set the stage for capitalism, the industrial revolution, and the rise of democracy. Thus, all of our great advances are rooted in our Christian value system, and in the rise of modern Christianity. I certainly don’t bash the Catholics, but we’d probably still be sailing in wooden ships with cannons, and living in monarchies, if Martin Luther didn’t post his 95 theses. Other religions and other value systems don’t generate societies as successful as that of the Christian West. Christopher Columbus and his voyages were a key step in the entire development of Western Civilization, and led to the rise of Europe. That’s not only our history, it’s the most relevant history of the world. Ours is the system and the culture that has conquered the world in so many ways, not just militarily. All major aspects of society from religion and democracy to education, medicine, science, engineering, technology, and the arts has largely derived from that of Western Christian civilization. Thank you, Christopher Columbus. You created our world. Yes, you deserve to be celebrated, warts and all. If some great revolution covering all aspects of society had happened in Japan, Nigeria, or Iran instead of in Europe, surely the world’s history, technology, and culture would be focused on their past instead. Our homes and businesses, and our public infrastructure, would be modeled after some other part of the world. But no, that didn’t happen. We don’t have natural gas pipelines made out of bamboo, do we? Modern western cities, even places like Dubai, Seoul, Tokyo, Brazilia, and Nairobi, don’t look like Jericho. The rest of the world is modeled after us. This is the ultimate legacy of Christopher Columbus. This matters way more than him spreading slavery or being responsible for diseases, oppression, and murder that claimed the lives of the Taino natives on Hispaniola. Equal and greater evils had been happening for thousands of years, and WITHOUT any advance of civilization to show for it. Yes, the glass of history is half full, not half empty. The misery wrought by Columbus has born fruit and created the modern world. 
We know there has been oppression associated with Western Civilization. We know there have been wars, and there will be more. We know there are great injustices still unresolved. We know that our history wasn’t perfect, and the motives of whole nations and empires were selfish and insincere. But we also know that progress occurs in phases. For instance, our Founding Fathers simply could not have established a system of democracy covering women and racial minorities. They just weren’t ready. They were the most progressive and advanced people in power anywhere in the world at the time, but the best they could implement was democracy and equality for all White men. They weren’t ready. Society wasn’t ready. Should we mock and blame them for the great steps that they took, and demand that their names be removed from public buildings? No, that’s just plain ignorant. The Founding Fathers took the first steps. Nobody else took them, did they? No other society in the world was on a path towards the full equality of all men in their society, no less to include women and other racial groups. In time, other people took the necessary further steps, and the social structure of our Christian-based society allowed it to happen. That’s how progress unfolds, that’s how history moves forwards. What about good ole’ Chris? Didn’t he bring misery and oppression wherever he visited. Well, he wasn’t ready to establish a just and fair society either. He was only ready to expand the empire of Spain, and the fortunes of businessmen there. The nations of Europe were ready to advance themselves, and to spread Christianity to other lands. That was about it, at that time. Are the indigenous peoples of the America’s, Africa, and Asia better off as Christians, and for adopting Western Civilization? Absolutely. Not a doubt about it. The Christian value system is the best value system, and the best proof of this claim is the development of the modern world. Thank you, Christopher Columbus. The real reason some people hate Columbus and our Founding Fathers is their desire for historical revisionism not just for Columbus, but for all of history. They want to portray the whole world as groups of people in conflict with other groups, and as exploiting and oppressing other groups. This is their message, this is their venom, and this is their politics. They are an unholy alliance of socialist, anarchists, atheists, and artists. They hate religion, especially Christianity. They want no limits on sexual morality or substance abuse. They are advancing a culture war, and they have largely conquered academia, the media, the fashion and entertainment industries, and the tech sector. Their intellectual development is that of a rebellious teenager. Yet collectively, they have more power than our political leaders, and they have the full determination to use it to dominate our society. That’s what Columbus bashing is all about, and it’s time for everyone to choose sides on this issue. It’s not about analyzing history and respecting the progress that humanity has made. Nor is it about building on that progress, and planning the next steps. Nope, Columbus bashing is all about spreading hate and political mischief, and upending our entire society. And the tip of the pitchfork is pointing squarely at the neck of Christopher Columbus. Our best defense is to educate the public on the role of Christopher Columbus in the advancement of Western Civilization. I have no problem with cities and towns having an Indigenous People’s Day. There’s about 350 days not designated as any kind of holiday in this country. Pick one of them. The second Monday in October is already taken. For more information, and to review all of our blog postings, see www.thewelcomemovement.com 

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