Just as all cultures celebrate their heroes in art, so too do Leftists and Patriots in America today.
Two statues recently positioned are certain to bring the varying Leftist and Patriotic views of what constitutes heroism into stark contrast.
This from frontpagemag.com.
The Left installed a twelve-foot statue of an anonymous black woman who is very clearly not happy, in the middle of America’s cultural epicenter, Times Square.
Patriots struck back with a sculpture in the Oval Office which is a smaller version of what promises to be a nine-foot statue depicting the first assassination attempt against President Trump.
The statue captured the indelible moment when:
[A]s they tried to move him off stage, Trump stopped and turned to the crowd, holding his clenched fist in the air and famously shouting, ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’ as blood dripped from his ear after it was grazed by a bullet.
The Trump Statue Project:
[Is] planning on creating a nine-foot replica to honor the president [and explains:] This powerful image, embodying ‘Confidence, Strength, and Hope,’ will be immortalized in this nine-foot-tall statue. It symbolizes the divine intervention as well as the man and his message of unity and resilience for which America stands.
So, on one side, we have a statue that celebrates confidence, strength, and hope, embodied in an image of a man who was defiant even in the face of death. And from the other America, as PJM’s Ben Bartee reported Thursday, we have “a sloppily dressed, obese Womyn of Color” who is defiant in the face of nothing at all. The sculptor explained this giant woman was designed:
[To] instigate meaningful connections and bind intimate emotional states that allow for deeper reflection around the human condition and greater cultural diversity.
Say what?
Why is this angry woman being celebrated in a statue in Times Square? For no reason at all.
The left’s idea is to break down all standards and all structures. Norms of human decency obviously go out the window, as do all genuine measures of ability and any effort to discern competence and excellence.
So, some random person might as well be celebrated, because to exalt accomplished people or great achievements “would cut against the left’s fundamental goal of leveling all distinctions between people and rendering us all indistinguishable cogs in the massive socialist, collectivist machine.”
Recall, the statues of Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt and the rest had to be torn down. They were erected in the first place because those were great men of extraordinary accomplishment. But for the left, writing the Declaration of Independence, or charging up San Juan Hill, or standing up after being grazed by a bullet and exhorting everyone to fight for freedom, has no greater moral value than walking into Walmart and buying a six-pack and a bag of chips. In fact, leftists prefer a population filled with people whose greatest accomplishment is the latter; “such people are easier to control.”
What would be most fitting, then, would be for the Trump Statue Project to place the full-size Trump statue right next to the big angry woman in Times Square. Of course, the socialists who run New York would never allow that, because they know if they did, Americans would see clearly the different paths.
The path of the Patriot and the path of the Leftist are entirely different, and the diverging paths often bring the respective travelers to odds with one another.
Final thoughts: The names ascribed to each of the two major political parties (yes, one has become a crime syndicate) have become extremely polarized through the past fifty-plus years.
The name ‘Patriots’ speaks of honor, pride, and love for and support of country. The name ‘Leftists’ no longer speaks of freedom, equality, fraternity, and reform. Rather, the synonyms of ‘Leftist’ today are progressivism and radicalization as well as unjustified claims of inequalities and disadvantage.
