Not Tired of Winning Yet CXLII
The Administration has begun the fight to eliminate hateful pinko propaganda from our school system.
Critical race theory, the 1619 Project, and the crusade against American history is toxic propaganda, ideological poison that, if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together. It will destroy our country.
That is why I recently banned trainings in this prejudiced ideology from the federal government and banned it in the strongest manner possible.
The only path to national unity is through our shared identity as Americans. That is why it is so urgent that we finally restore patriotic education to our schools.
Under our leadership, the National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant to support the development of a pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history.
Today, I am also pleased to announce that I will soon sign an Executive Order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education. It will be called the “1776 Commission.” It will encourage our educators to teach our children about the miracle of American history and make plans to honor the 250th anniversary of our founding.
Recently, I also signed an executive order to establish the National Garden of American Heroes, a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans who have ever lived.
Today, I am announcing a new name for inclusion.
One of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was a patriot from Delaware. In July of 1776, the Continental Congress was deadlocked during the debate over independence. The delegation from Delaware was divided. Caesar Rodney was called upon to break the tie.
Even though he was suffering from very advanced cancer — he was deathly ill — Rodney rode 80 miles through the night, through a severe thunderstorm, from Dover to Philadelphia to cast his vote for independence.
For nearly a century, a statue of one of Delaware’s most beloved citizens stood in Rodney Square, right in the heart of Wilmington.
But this past June, Caesar Rodney’s statue was ordered removed by the mayor and local politicians as part of a radical purge of America’s founding generation.
My comment: I had not heard the news that Caesar Rodney’s statue had been removed from Wilmington. This grieves and angers me personally. Even if you only get your history from the stageplay or movie 1776, you know who this hero is.
Poets were placed on the Earth not merely to flatter and seduce the fair. We are given the gift of the Hippocrene in order to lift our voices and glorify the memory of the lordly dead, the heroes to whom we owe our way of life, our freedoms, our fortune, all the great victories on which our civilization is built. The poet fights against the smothering silence of unmerciful father time, in the same way the doctor fights against the silent scythe of the Grim Reaper. Forgetfulness and Death always win in the end, but the fight cannot be surrendered.
This is why sculptors erect statues, and poets weave epics, that the glories of those to whom we owe so much not be lost.
The enemy of the poet is the propagandist, the revisionist, the political correction officer, for they bury the truth with lies, and the aid entropy to smother the memory of civilization. Each lying word brings a little more oblivion into the world.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
