Our nation's leftist progressives have long sought to undermine the American values expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
Though typical Democrats and Republicans do not have this leftist hate for our nation, they have been willing accomplices in undermining the most basic value the Founding Fathers sought to promote -- limited government.
Leftists have had their greatest successes in undermining American values on the nation's college campuses. Derelict and dishonest college administrators, professors and boards of trustees have given them carte blanche. Let's look at some of it.
Students at the University of
Virginia want to remove the statue of Thomas Jefferson, the university's
founder. Students at the University of Missouri also want Jefferson's statue
gone. Why? He was a slave owner.
Many in the college community supported Sen.
Bernie Sanders' presidential bid. They welcomed Sanders' belief that the United
States was founded on "racist principles."
There have also been calls
for the removal of George Washington's and Abraham Lincoln's statues.
Some have
called for the renaming of schools that honor Washington, Jefferson and 11
other slave-owning presidents.
Leftists have called for the renaming of streets
named after slave-owning presidents.
There have been many leftist calls for the
elimination of Columbus Day.
Their success at getting Confederate statues taken
down has emboldened them.
What goes unappreciated is just why
America's leftists' movement attacks the Founders.
If they can delegitimize
the Founders themselves, it goes a long way toward their agenda of
delegitimizing the founding principles of our nation.
If the leftists can
convince the nation that men such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison were good-for-nothing slave-owning racists, then their ideas can
be more easily trashed.
We find the greatest assaults on our founding documents
on the nation's college campuses.
The average parent, taxpayer and donor
has absolutely no idea of the bizarre lessons that college professors are
teaching students.
Professor Adam Kotsko of Shimer
College teaches, "Whether or not your individual ancestors owned slaves,
you as a white person have benefitted from slavery and are complicit in
it."
Dr. Micah Johnson, a research assistant and graduate student
instructor in the University of Florida's department of sociology and
criminology and law, teaches that the American notion of patriotism is
"drenched in whiteness" and that patriotism implies that black people
are "un-American."
These types of attacks on American
values have reached one of our most prestigious institutions of higher learning
-- the U.S. Military Academy.
The
administration at West Point knew of 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone's disqualifying
insubordination at the academy, extremist political views and
regulation-breaking online activity.
Proof has surfaced that West Point
leadership knew as early as 2015 that Rapone was an avowed communist and
held Marxist anti-American beliefs (http://tinyurl.com/ybnppvm6).
One of his Facebook
posts read, "F--- this country and its false freedom."
Despite
Rapone's conduct and demonstrated hatred of our nation, the U.S. Military
Academy's administration saw fit to allow Rapone to graduate in 2016.
But the rot at our premier military
academy goes beyond the traitorous ideas of Rapone's.
That was revealed in an
open letter written by retired Army Lt. Col. Robert Heffington, once a
professor of history at West Point (http://tinyurl.com/yb6dljy8).
Heffington's
letter exposed widespread corruption, cheating and falling standards at the
academy to which the administration has turned a blind, politically correct
eye.
In response to Heffington's widely circulated letter, the superintendent
of the U.S. Military Academy, Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr., released a
standard bureaucratic letter saying the administration will address the
concerns raised in Heffington's letter about falling standards.
It will
also investigate the revelations that it not only managed to graduate Rapone
but also sent him on to Army battlefield units, thus enabling him to spread his
anti-American ideas.
The American people need to stop being
sheeple and put a halt to the undermining of our nation taking place in our
institutions of higher learning.
