“Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.”
By James Banakis | John Kass News
I’ve always been a devotee of history. I think that’s because for me it’s always been someone telling a story. History as a study is at its best a TRUE story without an agenda. Those of us who study it understand that is because we accept the good and the bad of it as an examination of our very mortal ancestors navigating through the ages. Because we’re all human, we’re flawed. That’s what makes the stories so compelling.
History class for me was story hour, and I never missed class. Of them all, the best history professor I ever had was Dr. William Maehl. The great thespian held his audience in suspense, evoking laughter, tears, anxiety, and at times, spontaneous applause. He ended his lectures by giving his students a synopsis of how the subject of his discourse affected our lives and lessons we could take from it. He made us all feel that history was entrusted to those that chose to study it as a sacred text to be protected and passed on to our descendants. That’s why I detest historical revisionists. Those that pervert the past to promote their own agenda.
In the past 15 years we’ve seen those in the Marxist wing on the left want to tear down statues of historical figures who they chose to cancel. Every notable American honored with a statue erected over the past 250 years has been under attack for not being pure enough, woke enough.
We’ve also become aware of an interesting phenomenon propagated by their throngs of true believers, Gaslighting.
Gaslighting is a form of determined psychological maneuvering and emotional abuse where a person or group makes someone question their own memory, perception, or sanity. By denying facts or distorting reality, the manipulator gains power and control, leaving the victim confused and anxious.
The term was made popular in the 1944 film Gaslight, in which the protagonist is made to feel that she’s going insane. The term was often used by pundits during the Biden administration government officials for example, said our border was secure while millions of illegal aliens poured across unvetted. The other beauty was that Biden was running circles around his young staff at the White House, and that no one was able to keep up with his razor-sharp mind.
George Orwell perceptively said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” The Neo Marxists understand this, and they constantly promote their agenda by corrupting our founding principles.
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