Re-defining history so our former idols can be re-categorized and re-buried marked for the evils they left behind is a pathological convenience where the world will only look like a cleaner place.
Recall "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." So let it be with the Thoughts of Mao and current American history.
Good post-you hit on something that completely eats at me.
For example, I don’t have any admiration for the cause of the South as it relates to Slavery in the Civil War (though I do for State’s Rights...I even hesitate to use the Civil War as an example because it is such a flash point for so many people even today, but it applies perfectly)
But I am astonished and appalled that there are people on the Left who want to eradicate any symbols of that conflict (flags, statues) and even the discussion or memory of it from our history.
I have always felt that the bad things we do (both personally and nationally) are just as important to who we are as the good things we do. It makes us who we are. It is part of lessons learned. I am appalled to see this intentional eradication of these things, and doubly so, because even if I feel as General Grant did when talking about the defeated South which “had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse”, I believe those men, though wrong in my opinion, had fought for what was right, and fought valiantly. I honor their memory, even if I do disagree with some basic tenets of their cause.
To erase them, any vestige of them, their memory, their cause, and their flag from our national consciousness, strikes at the very heart of what and who we are.
And that is what the Left lives and breathes. It is what we saw practiced in the Soviet Union where they made people “unpersons”, no matter their accomplishments.
And the Left doesn’t wait hundreds of years to do it. It begins on the day they take power, or if they cannot take power, through bullying and harassment.