Apparently, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has evolved to the point where Thomas Jefferson must be cast out into the outer darkness. The man who:
- wrote the Declaration of Independence
- was twice elected President of the United States
- made the Louisiana Purchase and thereby more than doubled the size of the United States
- was honored with a Memorial in D.C.
- and has his face on Mount Rushmore
doesn’t deserve to be honored, according to Pete Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana. So if Buttigieg has rejected Jefferson then I have to decide which side I fall on, which of these two great men will I choose?
So many cruel jokes come to mind. The comparisons between the two men whether we look at accomplishments, writings or effect on the world around them are so lop-sided as to appear laughable. About the only thing you can cede to Buttigieg in the contest is that he probably has a better dentist than Jefferson did.
And that has about as much relevance to Buttigieg’s qualities as Jefferson owning slaves has to his. Basically, if you go enough generations back in anyone’s family tree you will find slave owners and that goes not only for Europeans but every other race and ethnicity you care to name. Up until the nineteenth century slavery existed universally around the world. It was the English who began the task of outlawing it from their empire in the early 1800s and later on France and the United States followed suit. Condemning Jefferson for employing slaves in that time period is cheap virtue signaling by a progressive who lives in a land made free by Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson when they fought the British in the Revolutionary and 1812 Wars.
If writing the Declaration of Independence and leading the Continental Army to victory over the British don’t guarantee places of honor to Jefferson and Washington in the eyes of Pete Buttigieg then I don’t see how he can be considered an American at all. To me he is no better than the ungrateful hippies who spat on returning Vietnam era soldiers who put their lives and limbs on the line to keep this a powerful and therefore a safe home for those cowardly nihilistic losers.
All of the revisionist nonsense that progressives spout and that weak-kneed Republicans kowtow to is unhistorical in assigning to people in the past, the knowledge of how the future would look. If we use these types of standards then Abraham Lincoln will have to be cast out too. Even though he freed the slaves he had uncomplimentary things to say about the slaves, both in respect to their qualities and of their characters. I suppose Mayor Pete will cast out the Great Emancipator. And what about Joe Biden? Didn’t he have some remarks about Obama that were less than flattering? Why isn’t Pete playing that to the hilt in their race for the Democratic Nomination?
Pete Buttigieg is, at best, a weird little man. Being kind and saying that he is only mouthing the talking points of the equally weird progressive movement doesn’t excuse him from choosing to comment on the worthiness of some of the greatest American statemen that have and probably will ever live. The fact that he expresses these opinions out loud because they are popular with a large national political party doesn’t bode well for the longevity of the American Nation.
So, I choose to keep Jefferson and reject Mayor Pete. He doesn’t deserve the honor of being respected as an American. He’s a traitor to the tradition that honors the men who risked everything they had to make this a free country. Pete Buttigieg is either too stupid to understand the illogic of holding people in the past to standards that didn’t exist at the time or he’s just a dishonest hack following in the vanguard of progressive rabble-rousers. He might as well fault the people who came over on the Mayflower for wasting their time on a sailing vessel when they could have taken a nice comfortable jumbo jet.
So, I reject Mayor Pete and his ilk. All the Antifa thugs tearing down statues of men who lived long ago and followed their consciences and loved their homes. I refuse to cast out the people who built this country when that was a hard and frightening thing to do. But I do reject Mayor Pete and anyone else who rejects the men who built this country from the ground up. I say simply that they are not Americans. By their own admission they reject the heritage of the Founders. Therefore, whatever country they belong to it isn’t the United States of America. They are not my countrymen. They are Unamericans.