The Intentional Demolition of American Identity ｜ 5⧸4⧸23
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Summary
Joe Biden claims that Islam has been present in America since its founding, and is a natural part of our nation. What possible purpose could the telling of such a blatant lie serve? What does the left gain by pushing a historical narrative that is so provably false?
Transcript
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Joe Biden, or whatever communications flunky who operates his social media accounts,
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took to Twitter this week to inform the nation that
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Muslim culture has been woven throughout American culture from the very start.
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but Biden is not the first president to make such a claim.
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Barack Obama and several other Democratic politicians
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have asserted that Islam has been present in America since its founding,
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What possible purpose could the telling of such a blatant lie serve?
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What does the left gain by pushing a historical narrative that is so provably false?
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The left understands that history is the foundation of identity,
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and they seek to demolish American identity and remake it in their own image.
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The most basic investigation into the American founding reveals that Islam was not just completely
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absent from the formation of the United States, but was the young nation's direct adversary.
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The first military action that the U.S. took after winning its independence was the defense of
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These Muslim raiders were enslaving and ransoming Americans in accordance with their religion,
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and the nation spent a large percentage of its budget paying those pirates off
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before finally sending its newly formed navy to put an end to the raiding.
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from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.
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Claiming that Muslim culture was part of America from the beginning isn't just a lie.
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It's a direct and deliberate inversion of the historical facts.
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The general lack of knowledge about this period of American history is unsurprising,
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The conflict was significant and shaped America's approach to both foreign policy and a standing
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army, but very few teachers bothered to cover it.
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This is, in no small part, due to our progressive education system's attempt to cast slavery as
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While Muslim civilizations were some of history's most prolific slavers, this fact is barely mentioned
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as history texts fall all over themselves to praise Islam as a religion of tolerance and peace.
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This relentless focus on American slavery and careful avoidance of its practice in other
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The progressive effort to manufacture this narrative has been largely successful.
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As a former high school teacher, I can tell you that many young people believe that slavery
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was an American invention, and this notion is particularly popular among minority students.
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The most impressive thing about the left's revisionist history is how often it's at odds with its own
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America is uniquely evil because it was founded by straight white men who were basically genocidal
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religious Puritans, but America has also been a multiracial melting pot that wove foreign
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religions into its culture from the very beginning.
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The progressive believes, simultaneously, that this nation was founded by an oppressive, racist
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patriarchy and that inclusion and diversity defined America from the very outset.
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Apparently, America was ruled by tiny proto-Hitlers who were just really bad at their jobs and the
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forces of diversity, equity, and inclusion managed to allow the country to flourish in spite of its
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The narrative is convoluted and contradictory, but that hardly seems to matter.
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Strict adherence to this narrative is key to obtaining degrees and maintaining employment
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History is simply one more ideological litmus test for the institutions that underpin our current regime.
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Sure, maybe Muslims didn't found America, but is that fact really worth losing your job over?
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The left's historical revisionism has successfully created a population that is completely unmoored
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from the reality of their past and therefore has no way to legitimately evaluate assertions
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Is America a nation founded on democratic principles?
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Did the founders truly want religious values separated from political and legal decisions?
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All of these modern narratives are taken at face value as history is reshaped by progressive
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newspeak operations like the 1619 Project and these assertions are not chosen by the left
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Each one is pregnant with political meaning and shapes the thought process of the modern voter.
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Human identity is not formed by the individual but is instead shaped by the historical narrative
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and social context in which they are born and must live their lives.
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To control the historical narrative is to control the identity of the nation and that identity
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is what shapes the nation's vision of the future.
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If you can warp a nation's understanding of their past, you own the entire frame in which
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discussions about their present and future take place.
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When popular sovereignty is the mechanism by which your ruling class is legitimated, control
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We are told that people vote their wallets or key single issues, but these are only proxies
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This is why the left invests so heavily into the social engineering required to manufacture
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identities that are dependent on progressive politics.
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Whether they're lying about the Muslim origins of the United States or telling six-year-old boys
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that they can become girls, the motivation is the same.
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Progressives use their control over consensus manufacturing institutions to socially engineer
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and advance identities that are dependent on the left's political apparatus.
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There's no need to persuade a voting bloc that sees the Democratic Party as its only defense
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against forces which threaten their right to exist.
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If the very existence of the identity is contingent on progressives holding power, then its adherents
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will be committed supporters of that political movement no matter what.
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That kind of loyalty is far more valuable than some vague commitment to historical accuracy,
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When an individual is stripped of their historical, familial, religious, and even biological context,
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they can be manipulated into holding any belief.
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The leftist project seeks to strip Americans of their connection to the past as well as the
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organic communities and institutions to which they would naturally belong in the hopes of
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manufacturing an identity which is wholly dependent on the progressive political apparatus.
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It doesn't matter how conflicted or contradictory the narratives become as long as they continually
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bind voters into a coalition which elevates Democratic Party apparatchiks as our permanent ruling class.
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Institutional hegemony is used to reshape the voting public in the image of progressive social
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engineers, securing support not just for one election cycle, but for generations to come.
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If the right is to combat these tactics, it must understand the need to make long-term
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investments in alternative institutions that can reconnect Americans to their real history,
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It's only by rejecting the progressive narrative and reconnecting to their true heritage that
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Americans will be able to once again chart a future, not just for themselves,
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