Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (I even hate typing her name) now has a brainstorm! She wants to call for the removal of the statute of General
Edmund Kirby Smith at the Capitol in Washington D.C. General Smith was a Florida native from St. Augustine, who was a general during the Civil
War. Not only does she want the statute removed, she wants a special session called just for that purpose. It's that important to her.
Years ago I asked a former commissioner in our city what the word "progressive" meant. I was not familiar with the term. Now I have learned. It is to destroy...tear down our democracy, our history. The progressive impulse to purge public spaces of Confederate monuments
isn’t about inclusion and tolerance,
it’s about politics and power.
Monuments have everything to do with preserving our past--we learn from our past. It's not about siding with the confederacy or the fact they used slaves or they lost a war.
It took a Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, to free all of them. Then northern carpetbaggers blitzed through the south and brutalized everyone in their path. The aftermath of the war was in some ways worse than the war itself. It was a horrible time in our history but one we should never forget. The South won't forget and they won't forget what progressives are doing to these monuments and their heritage. The current drive to erase all of our Confederate history is not about tolerance; it's not about unity, something liberals always expound but never show.
It's all about power.
Read about General Smith
Wasserman-Schultz should be putting her time to better use such as explaining to the American people why she continued to pay her Pakistani-born Imran Awan IT guy who was under investigation by the FBI for theft and cyber security-tied abuses.
