Alternate reality

We do indeed seem to live in interesting times. I watched the bipartisan frenzy of anti-Trump rhetoric regarding the white supremacist march in Charlottesville with amazement. Of course, one expects the Democrats and the violent hate groups they and billionaire George Soros sponsor such as Antifa to criticize President Trump no matter how strong his condemnation of the newest version of Skinheads. The liberals and Soros have staked their future on promoting fear, violence and division in the country by declaring any conservative ideology to be racist, homophobic, misogynistic, Islamophobic, etc.

If David Duke of the KKK supports Candidate Trump (who else could he support ... Hillary???) the president must agree with the Nazi/white-supremacist philosophy, despite all the facts leading to an opposite conclusion.

Imagine my shock around Christmas when I received a card from Richard Spencer, our local white nationalist (neo-Nazi?), thanking me for my opinion pieces in the Inter Lake and requesting my support. He signed off saying, “Heil Trump.” Of course, Mr. Spencer, as many of his group, assumes that anyone with conservative views must support their warped ideology. How could anyone with conservative opinions, given the generally progressive views of many if not most Jews, be Jewish? Unfortunately for Spencer, I am. I suppose he hadn’t read my written support for the state of Israel on the same Opinion pages. Of course I told him as a Jew and a human being what I thought of him and his anti-semitic group and to not contact me ... ever! I have not heard from him since.

Now, if I were President Trump receiving this neo-Nazi’s support, despite having a daughter who converted to Judaism, and a son-in-law who is Jewish and whom I had placed in a position of importance in my White House, I am sure I would have been accused of “having the support of neo-Nazis.”

The politicians are frightened to death that a non-politician could capture the imagination of the American people, threatening their power structure and control of our society. That is why Democrats and Republicans alike are fighting so hard to diminish the president. On the Democrat side, President Trump threatens their attempt to regain power as they struggle to keep their coalition of minorities in dependency and suck up to their elitist rich liberals in Silicon Valley businesses and corrupt liberal professors and students on our campuses. On the Republican side, he jeopardizes their attempt to retain their hold on the strings of power in Washington while they accomplish no legislation of substance for fear of disturbing the corrupt establishment in D.C. or their lobbyist campaign sponsors. I don’t agree with many of the president’s statements, but he certainly has the right to fight back when members of his own party such as Sen. Corker or members of the bureaucratic swamp like former Director of National Intelligence Clapper (who lied to the Congress and the American people) call him unfit.

When the president condemned the philosophy of hate groups, he was accused of not denouncing them strongly enough. When he pointed out the Antifa violence on the other side, the liberals, the media and even some Republicans countered with, “What violence?” I understand how the politicians both on the right and left can lie ... they are politicians ... that is what they do. The drive-by media is for the most part a wing of the Democrat Party and progressive agenda so I suppose that is also to be expected. But when the president asks if the removal of statues and the sanitization of our history will end with the Confederate flag and their leaders or progress to Washington and Jefferson, he is denounced as hysterical only to be proven correct when within a week there are demands for the removal of memorials to men whom we should all honor — men like Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and Columbus. Where in the hell has sanity gone in this country?

If the left wants to rid the country of racist monuments, let them start with Margaret Sanger, the darling of the pro-abortion and Planned Parenthood crowd whose founding principal, eugenics, aimed to eliminate ALL black babies. Or perhaps we should demand that Mahatma Gandhi monuments starting with the one in San Francisco be toppled. Despite a lifetime of fighting the good fight, he ignored anti-black racism in South Africa, fighting at the end of the 19th century for separation of what he believed to be the inferior blacks from his beloved fellow Indians. Similarly, should we remove all remembrances of Malcolm X for his early anti-semitic anti-white rants closely aligned with Nation of Islam philosophy which he later recanted (and which led to his assassination by these same radicals)? Are these heroes of the left not more “deplorable” than great men such as Washington and Jefferson?

In recent years, as the progressive agenda has flourished, I have watched as babies are murdered at 8-plus months of gestation, Christian prayer and Christmas greetings are forced underground while Muslim foot baths now occupy public buildings, marriage defined as a union between a man and a woman for thousands of years has been abandoned, and Christian bakers who refuse to support a gay marriage ceremony are forced out of business for not violating their beliefs, men who feel like a woman one day are allowed to use a female locker room or bathroom, and now, finally, no matter what their contribution to the founding or sustenance of this great nation, our heroes and Founding Fathers are to be relegated to the ash heap of political correctness so blacks who are five generations removed from slavery can feel the heat of revenge.

Perhaps blacks should also remember that the first legal slave owner in America was a black man, Anthony Johnson, that in the 1830 census 3,776 free blacks owned 12,907 slaves, that a majority of West Africa slave traders were themselves black, and that even the Native Americans owned slaves before slavery came to the Americas. Go back to the 1600s and 1700s, and most of the world owned slaves including the African countries from which America’s slaves were imported. If a country abolished slavery 100 years earlier than the United States, do they get a pass on the evils that were slavery?

So as we watch pictures of spoiled white snowflakes yanking down statues of Robert E. Lee and kicking and spitting on these mostly honorable men who supported an accepted belief of their time (an economic belief to run their plantations and, perhaps, not much different than the current economic belief in low-wage illegal immigrant labor), let the majority of the country FINALLY draw a line. Keep your hands off of our Founding Fathers and great men like Abraham Lincoln ... they aren’t around to defend themselves from your baseless complaints which clearly don’t reflect the times in which they lived. And if you can’t appreciate what they accomplished by the founding of this great country and what the United States has to offer you today, feel free to leave. Perhaps you will find life more to your liking somewhere else ... try North Korea or Iran! If you don’t want to travel that far, Venezuela might be nice!

David Myerowitz is a resident of Columbia Falls.