Same source, different subject.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/03/mount-rushmore-south-dakota-indigenous-americansListening to our less liberal islanders talk about the Civil War statues/memorials and the need to preserve them and our deep commitment to our Founding Fathers who should only be judged in one part of the morality of their time, at the same time that they also talk about how there is
no need to enshrine and uphold our treaties or to repair damage done to racial minority groups in our country, I am struck (anew) by the hypocrisy of only wanting to honor certain parts of history.
"We're for law and order, but not those laws and not that order."
"Remember the Alamo," but "Forget the treaties!"
"Guns are a right - no restrictions should be put on them!" while "We need to put restrictions on the process of voting!" even though it, too, is a right.
So, as I read about the increasing effort to return to Natives what was stolen from them and the right wing resistance - still and again - to honoring treaties that the other side had cause to believe were signed in good faith, I have to wonder if there is anything other than greed, avarice, and power that our nation's right wing can ever stand for again.
It's not small government. It's only fiscal "responsibility" when the Dems are in the White House. It's social "conservatism" except when it's their mistresses who need an abortion or their daughters who want same sex marriage. It's neither isolationism nor interventionism as policy, just as excuses for doing what they want.
And you know that every time there is a natural disaster, they balk at funds for the stricken
BLUE areas, but beg when it is a stricken
RED area.
They cannot and will not see that they destroy themselves in the name of destroying us.
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