No man joins a club that hates itself.
No child pledges allegiance to a flag ashamed of its own stripes.
And no people—black, white, or otherwise—embrace a culture that’s told it is rotten to the core.
That’s the trick.
That’s how you take a nation that once inspired millions to come together, and instead push them to peel away—group by group, color by color, grievance by grievance—into their own camps.
You don’t need fences. You don’t need firehoses.
You just need to make American culture look so toxic, so racist, so irredeemably evil, that people voluntarily walk away from it.
And that, my fellow citizens, is exactly what the Left has done.
The War on American Culture
Americanism once stood for liberty, opportunity, individual merit, and the pursuit of happiness. It was the engine that drew millions from every continent, and yes—it produced the most diverse, prosperous, and free nation in human history.
But now? That very culture has been rebranded. According to the modern Left, it’s not a culture of freedom—it’s a culture of oppression.
They’ve redefined patriotism as supremacy.
They’ve redefined the Founding as slavery.
They’ve redefined success as theft.
And when you’re done redefining something, you can burn it down.
The 1619 Project: Poisoning the Roots
The flagship of this cultural demolition was the 1619 Project, a propaganda campaign masquerading as history, published by The New York Times. Its central thesis? That America’s true founding was not 1776, but 1619—the year the first African slaves arrived on colonial shores.
In one fell swoop, the Left declared that everything—our Constitution, our economy, our culture—was built not on liberty, but on bondage. It was a lie, of course. Not just a distortion, but a full-blown falsification that even liberal historians condemned. But it did its job. It made young Americans ashamed of their inheritance.
That’s the point. You can’t get someone to reject their culture until you convince them it was never theirs to begin with.
Statue by Statue, Brick by Brick
The cultural arson didn’t stop at the classroom. It moved to the streets.
They began by tearing down Confederate statues. Fair enough. But they didn’t stop.
They defaced monuments of Abraham Lincoln—the man who freed the slaves.
They toppled statues of Ulysses S. Grant—the general who crushed the Confederacy.
They vandalized tributes to Frederick Douglass and other black abolitionists.
The mobs didn’t care who they were destroying. Because it was never about correcting history. It was about erasing American memory altogether—so they could rebuild a society in their own twisted image.
When you teach children that their country is evil, their heroes were villains, and their founding documents are hate speech, don’t be surprised when they retreat into tribes and demand their own dormitories, their own ceremonies, and their own flags.
That’s not empowerment. That’s surrender.
Tearing Down the Bonds That Unite Us
The Left tells black Americans they don’t belong in “white institutions.”
They tell Hispanic Americans that English is a form of colonization.
They tell Asian Americans that excellence is a tool of oppression.
And they tell white Americans to sit down and shut up.
The result? Everyone leaves the table. Everyone goes back to their corners.
And the American experiment becomes nothing but a pile of broken pieces.
This isn’t accidental. It’s not the side effect of good intentions. It’s a strategy—a cultural insurgency engineered to divide and demoralize, one institution at a time. And it’s working.
The Path Back
We don’t need a new culture. We need to reclaim the one that worked.
Not perfect. Not without sin. But undeniably freer, stronger, and more noble than any system built on division and envy.
We need to teach young Americans that their country is worth joining—not escaping.
We need to remind all Americans that segregation—no matter how it’s dressed up—is not progress. It’s regression.
And most of all, we need to stop apologizing for a culture that once united millions under a single banner, with the words:
“Out of many, one.”
Because if we don’t believe it anymore, who will?
Citations:
The New York Times Magazine. “The 1619 Project.” August 2019.
Politico. “Historians Clash with 1619 Project.” December 2019.
Wall Street Journal. “The 1619 Project Gets Schooled.” March 2020.
NPR. “Statues of Lincoln, Grant, and Douglass Targeted in Protests.” June–July 2020.
Smithsonian Magazine. “Why Protesters Toppled a Statue of Ulysses S. Grant.” July 2020.
NBC News. “Statues of Abolitionists, Union Generals Vandalized.” June 2020.
National Review. “The Left’s Cultural Revolution.” August 2020.
Heritage Foundation. “The 1619 Project Distorts American History.” October 2020.
