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If you still think it’s hyperbole and hysteria to say that the left hates America, check out the 2024 Democratic Party Platform.
“Our nation,” the platform states, “is at an inflection point. What kind of America will we be? A land of more freedom, or less freedom? More rights or fewer?” That’s actually not a bad place to start a statement of basic principles, for this election is indeed shaping up to be a choice between more freedom or less, albeit not in the way that the Democratic party would have you believe.
This “inflection point” statement, however, is not the first item in the Democratic Party Platform. The first thing you see when you start reading the Democratic Party Platform, the very first thing that the Democrats want you to know, is that America is on stolen land. The message is clear: Go home, white colonizer!
The first item in the 2024 platform of America’s majority party is the “Democratic National Convention Land Acknowledgement.” Land acknowledgments, which are basically statements of colonialist guilt and assertions that some particular parcel of land actually belongs to someone other than those who occupy it and own the deed, became trendy a few years ago, as our Age of Absurdity reached new heights of ridiculousness. They’re common, as you’d expect, on the websites of colleges and universities. The platform’s land acknowledgment is a trifle more gingerly stated than such things usually are, but its upshot is nonetheless unmistakable.
“The Democratic National Committee,” the land acknowledgment begins, “wishes to acknowledge that we gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded through many centuries by the ancestors and descendants of Tribal Nations who have been here since time immemorial.”
This is carefully worded. Instead of saying outright that the land belongs to the Tribal Nations, or was taken from them, as most land acknowledgments do, the platform says that the Democratic National Convention is taking place on lands that “have been stewarded” by the Tribal Nations.
The platform is quite specific about whose land the Chicago area really is, or at least who “stewarded” that land: “While we meet in Chicago, we also recognize and honor the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, also known as the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. We acknowledge the many other tribes who consider this area their traditional homeland, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten.” The Democrats remain tactfully silent about how the Ojibwe drove the Ho-Chunk out of what is now known as Wisconsin, and about other warfare between the various sainted Tribal Nations on their list.
The platform has plenty of room, however, for lavish praise of these groups: “We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands. We pay our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals.”
Conspicuously absent is any similar praise for the Founding Fathers or any of the heroic figures of American history. From the Democrats’ platform, the uninformed reader would get the impression that the colonialist oppressors arrived in North America, stole the land from the Native Americans, and somehow established a Constitution that now Donald Trump wants to destroy, but which they are working very hard to save.
The platform is as pernicious as it is ahistorical. It perpetuates the leftist mythology that the Native American tribes were living in peaceful, harmonious bliss until the evil colonialists arrived, bringing with them European diseases as well as the chains of slavery and the shackles of injustice. In the left’s ersatz humanist religion, colonialism and whiteness are the original sins, and only Marxism can expiate them. The fact that one would be hard-pressed to find any place on earth that didn’t belong to someone else at one time doesn’t stop them from filling young people with nonsense about how America is somehow a uniquely illegitimate occupying power.
The ultimate lesson the Democrats convey with all this, however, is not that one should vote for them. It’s that one should pick up stakes and move somewhere else, anywhere else, where the weight of colonialist guilt is not felt so heavily. If America is wrong and rotten from the time of its very founding, why are the Democrats working to save it? They should just move to some non-stolen land if they can find any and live there with clear consciences.
Rational thinking, of course, is not what this is about. What it is about is justifying ongoing guilt feelings that will grease the skids for more payouts to supposedly oppressed groups. What the Democratic Party Platform is doing, in the final analysis, is justifying reparations, forced redistribution, and socialism. The sainted native tribes are just props for a deeply sinister effort.
Isn’t Chicago majority black?
The crime certainly is.
It’s a majority criminal.
It is about 30% black. According to the last census, Chicago lost 100,000 blacks. Unfortunately the Mexicans Richard Michael Daley imported into our city has replaced them.
I dismantle the concept of white guilt because of historical sin in my book “Living In A Salt Land.”
A short sample:
Any categorical syllogism that relies on an I proposition to assert that an A proposition with the same subject term is true commits the fallacy of illicit process. To be precise, the fallacy being committed in this case is the illicit process of the minor term. As we can see, the argument being examined here is invalid, so we know that the argument will fail, no matter what group of people replaced “Muslims” as the minor term (Romans, Vikings, Egyptians, or anyone else.) Here is the same argument with “white people” as the minor term:
All people who engage in slavery are guilty of a crime. (True.)
Some white people have engaged in slavery. (True.)
Therefore all white people are guilty of a crime. (Fallacious.)
This argument fails, as the previous argument failed, because it commits the fallacy of illicit process of the minor term. As we have seen, it is not possible to argue that some Muslims engaged in slavery in the past, therefore all Muslims alive today are guilty of that crime. Obviously, it is not possible to make that argument when it comes to white people either.
The concept of “white guilt” can therefore be rejected, because it is based on a fallacy.
Sittason, Andrew. Living In A Salt Land (pp. 113-114). Andrew Sittason. Kindle Edition.
Slavery still exists in some Muslim countries even though it has been outlawed. Mauritania , Libya and Sudan are examples. There is even slavery in Egypt though it is hidden. Muslim slavers rounded up Africans and sold them to whoever was willing to buy.
“Rational thinking, of course, is not what this is about.”
Marxism isn’t based on reason but on faith, just like Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam.
A simplistic one track mind only produces simplistic one track results.
I guess it never occurred to you that Objectivism is the most simplistic one track philosophy ever invented. Not a lot to it and you get to trash Jews and Christians in the process with impunity, at least on this site.
Who was that total POS prosecutor who bragged about his malicious & pure politically motivated trumped up charges!?
Are these pricks even vaguely aware they’re doing exactly what Lavrentiy Beria did during Stalin’s show trials? “Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime!”
What’s alarming is these immoral prosecutors might have lied to themselves so much, that they actually believe their own bullshit.
They played the Marine Corps hymn when they introduced Walz.
Timbecile Balz. What a decrepit old piece of shit. That bald old dotard is the same age as me but looks twenty years older. I love writing and saying that. Old ass, Alzheimer Joe looking mofo.
Since we’re talking about taking land from the native population I can’t help but remember the Trail of Tears brought to us by President Andrew Jackson-a DEMOCRAT!
Andrew Jackson was the only Democrat to have a balanced budget. The Indians were not always very nice to people on the prairies either. A local Irish American Indian woman once told me that one of her ancestors was taken from a wagon train. She had no bones to pick about that either.
DNC Dastardly Nasty Crooks and in the Windy City of total Airheads
How can you take land from people who didn’t own it..
Indians did NOT own the land they lived on as that was not something they understood and so Europeans created land ownership starting in places like the Oklahoma Land Rush.
So you can steal land from people that didn’t own it…. Duh…
Ben and Jerry’s the Ice Cream duo wanted the land to go back to the local Indian Tribe until they were told the HQ of Ben Jerry’s was on such land… Silence forwarded…
The self righteousness of The Left today truly knows no bounds whatsoever.
By claiming were all living on Stolen Land the Dumb-O-Crats are making the very same stupid mistake that Ben & Jerry did last year
The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it. Acknowledge him first above all else.