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Origins of an Error

Posted on | July 26, 2020 | 3 Comments

 

Success does not need excuses, and the United States has been arguably the greatest success story in world history. Scarcely 150 years from the establishment of the first English colonies here, the American nation developed such strength as to be able to win its independence in a protacted war against the British empire which was at the time the greatest naval and military power on the planet.

Less than 150 years after winning our independence, the United States had grown into such a mighty nation as to make the decisive difference in the Allied victory in World War I, a feat repeated less than 30 years later in defeating the Axis powers in World War II. Scarcely had that conflict ended, however, than the United States found itself called to lead the free world in the “long twilight struggle” against Soviet communism in what became known as the Cold War. In this, too, America was triumphant, and by the early 1990s, what Reagan called the “evil empire” of Soviet tyranny collapsed into “the ash heap of history.”

Certainly, a nation that has accomplished such historic feats has every right to call itself successful, and to expect that its successes should elicit praise and admiration, both from its foreign allies and from its own citizens. And yet this is not what have seen in recent years.

 

Even now, we see riots in the streets by mobs who proclaim that America is uniquely guilty of “systemic racism.” These mobs are organized and led by activists who call themselves “trained Marxists,” i.e., adherents of the murderous ideology that Americans thought we had decisively defeated when the Soviet empire collapsed. Why do so many young people follow and support these communist agitators in their mission to destroy American society? What is the source of this destructive evil, and why is it flourishing like a poisonous weed? Obviously, I have some opinions in this matter, but it strikes me that readers may wish to share their own.




 

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