We have a choice to either stand by and watch the federal government overtake our local communities or stand up and limit overreach, especially in regards to erasing history.
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, prominent political figures supported ANTIFA and BLM rioters calling for the toppling of historical statues. Pete Buttigieg, calling for safety and justice via Twitter, urged the Richmond, Virginia, mayor to remove Confederate monuments.
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill to remove statues with Confederate ties from the U.S. Capitol. Showing no historical discernment, vandals have also torn down monuments to abolitionists including Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
America has a long, complex, rich history, which modern revisionists and Critical Race Theorists seem bent on oversimplifying into 280-character snippets of half-thoughts.
We can learn from our country’s struggles with good and evil, but only if we respect and remember all our forebears’ travails. If we fail at remembering our history, we will suffer Marx’s riposte: “History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then as farce,” except with farce compounded as tragedy.
In mid-June the Montgomery County Planning Department (MCPD) announced three streets in Potomac, Maryland, will be getting new names, erasing the full names of nationally-known Confederate soldiers and instead choosing to memorialize local black historical figures.
With the push to erase prominent historical figures by federal and national factions, we might wonder whether Montgomery County’s changing its street names is an organic example of self-governance or virtue signaling by local politicians riding a revisionist propaganda bandwagon.
Two things are certain: truth is scarce, and our nuanced history, as well as the words in books which detail it, will not speak up for themselves.
Stand up for your beliefs and your perspectives, or the oversimplified tweets win.
If you believe the federal government has become too large and has too great of an impact at the local level, then the Article V Convention of States grassroots movement is for you.
There are countless ways to be actively engage as patriots. Citizens concerned for the future of their country have a constitutional option. We can call a convention of states to bring power back to the states and the people, where it belongs.
You can stand by or stand up to federal overreach. The choice is yours.
Join us and sign the petition, and then get everyone you know to sign, too.
