The Cultural Revolution
In the 1960s, China’s communist rulers literally declared war against Chinese history, habits and symbols as Mao Zedong and his revolutionaries attempted to fundamentally transform China in their image. It ripped the social fabric of China. More than a million people were killed.
A similar cultural revolution may be underway in America. Last night, a mob tor down and destroyed a monument to a Southern soldier in Durham, North Carolina. Per local media report, the mob was led by anti-fascists, the Democratic Socialists of America and the Communist World Workers party.
The fringe left is on fire. Its seething hatred of America has been unleashed. “Charlottesville is just the beginning,” one far left website declared. Another proudly proclaims that “capitalism is in crisis” and “The American state is collapsing.”
I am glad the North won the Civil War. But I am disgusted by the left’s desire