Historical nonsense

Andrew Klavan writes in PJ Media,

#AmericaWasNeverGreat has been the secret sub-text of much of the leftist message since at least the sixties. It may have reached the high watermark of its legitimacy with Barack Obama's threat to "fundamentally transform" the nation that had given him everything in return for precious little. But it might also gain a few extra months of credence by playing off the blustering nationalist sloganeering of a (let's face it) lowlife like Donald Trump.

The problem is, whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, blessed to be born here or willing to break every law and dare any danger to get here from somewhere else, #AmericaWasNeverGreat is simply historical nonsense.

...Even those Americans whining about how oppressed they are here are only free to talk such trash because of the system our founders created. Without that system, they would actually be oppressed instead of being able to say so.

What the left and other enemies of freedom have done is to convince people to judge us by our failings and our flaws, mostly our woeful participation in the universal sin of racism. This is a strategy (sometimes flattered by association with once-philosophical "critical theory") put into place by those who wish to sell the slavery of socialism, but who can't do it on that failed system's merits. The idea is: you don't have to pimp socialist slavery, you merely criticize everything else and people will follow the siren song of Soviet-loving jackasses like Bernie Sanders — and Barack Obama, who says he shares Sanders's socialist goals.

America was a great nation. It is a great nation. With God's help — and at this point, nothing less will do — it will be greater still.

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