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Earth Day used to be a celebration of our individual and collective responsibility to protect the planet and improve human health ...Incorrect, Tommy. It was always a platform for Marxist propaganda, particularly stressed by the fact that they made it the same day as the birthday of Vladimir Lenin.
The creation of Earth Day was never about improving the human condition.
It was and still is the attempt by the radical left to either replace or to provide a competing holiday to the most sacred days in the Judeo-Christian calendar, that of Easter and Passover, which the political left hates.
It’s all part of the long term effort by the left to erase American culture and replace it with something else, anything else.
I grew up in Massachusetts in the 1950s and ‘60s, and April 19th was always known as Patriots Day. That was the reason for the holiday, and the Boston Marathon became a part of this celebration. People were proud of their heritage, and glad to honor the sacrifices that led to the American Revolution. So much so that the local NFL Franchise was called the ‘BOSTON PATRIOTS’.
Over the years, by political attrition, the Founder’s sacrifices were delegitimized and erased. They are now known as the New England Patriots to remove the Boston connection, such as the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre and the Battle of Bunker Hill. To the hippies of the 1960s, these were not events worthy of remembrance, much less celebration.
In Boston, there is no longer any celebration of April 19th and the ‘Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ on Lexington Green, it is now sanitized and lamely known as ‘Marathon Monday’, with no apparent purpose other than to cheer on foreigners aimlessly running through the streets. It’s become a celebration of the ridiculous yet cherished left wing policy of ‘diversity’.
A disgraceful turn of events.
The left has done the same with Washington and Lincoln’s Birthday Holidays. They have insisted on changing the holidays to ‘President’s Day’, so as to erase the greatness of both great men and to elevate America’s weak, anti American Democrat presidents to be the equal of Washington and Lincoln.
So the weak and corrupt administrations of Carter, Clinton, Obama and Biden are now included in the celebration of ‘President’s Day’, another disgraceful slap in the face to American culture, history and tradition. For those unfamiliar with why the left was so concerned about Washington and Lincoln, it’s because Washington was a member of the old Whig Party, which eventually became the Republican Party, and Lincoln was America’s first Republican President.
No democrat has ever come close to the sacrifices these two great men made, or their contributions to the country at large. Yet now we are all forced to celebrate ALL presidents as equals.
What a joke.
There are countless other examples of the left’s transparent attempt to replace American culture and tradition with their lame and weak-kneed options,
but for those of us who remember, it is incumbent upon us to pass on the true meaning of our holidays.
Earth Day is as lame as the phony, made-up Kwanza holiday, or Juneteenth, and just as irrelevant.
Celebrate America, the greatest country that has ever existed, and ignore the anti American political left, and their attempts to replace us.
Give a hoot don’t pollute that was about sums it up from when I was a kid. I’m 61 years old. We didn’t need this all this other rigmarole, right!
Oh, and I love free Republic. Have a good evening!