If you resent Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) purging your town’s statues, then you know US history is about ideals (not sins) and the 1st amendment doesn’t protect the right to vandalize. Actress Elizabeth Rogliani saw this cancel-culture firsthand in her native Venezuela: “Statues come down, then [Chavez] changed the street names, the curriculum, and some movies couldn’t be on TV.” She saw revolutionaries destroy the richest country in South America – in spite of huge oil reserves.
Rogliani is focused on events – “a lot of people wanting to destroy the US” – not rhetoric, and knows cancel culture when she sees it. And what she sees is what conservative intellectuals describe as Bioleninism. These revolutionaries, primarily Antifa and BLM, use the same tactics as Chavez against privileged identities (what you are) rather than privileged classes (what you have). Unlike Lenin, bioleninists favor the Obamas in spite of their wealth and hate poor whites because of their race.
It’s naive to assume one wrongful death (Floyd) launched today’s violence, when the DOJ reports these are targeted attacks upon police and statues by subversive opportunists; such as Patrice Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter. She began in 1968 as a coordinator for the radical SDS and admits to being a “trained Marxist.” The New York Post reports Cullors’ movement wants to “defund the police and disrupt the nuclear family.” So far, BLM has talked about ridding – not repairing – police and traditional families.
Nobody denies these bioleninists accuse their enemy of racism, Zionism, and sexism. Some wonder who’s left to pursue happiness after identity-cleansing a nation with 234 million of European ancestry (Latinos included), 252 million Christians (blacks included) and 97% of white women married to white men (source: USCB)? Trump appealed to these majorities in 2017: “You can’t change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E. Lee? Stonewall Jackson? Who’s next – Washington, Jefferson?”
It’s incumbent upon Democrats in 2020 to admit their woke breaking point, after shaming Trump in 2017 for “conflating” confederates and founding fathers. The Chicago Tribune lectured, “George Washington was a patriot and Robert E. Lee was a traitor.” Liberal Vox explained that Americans “revere Washington today because of his many accomplishments on behalf of the nation that had nothing to do with slavery.” In other words, the real American history was safe.
Three years later, woke activists have toppled explorers (Columbus), founding fathers (Washington), Catholic missionaries (Serra), presidents (Grant), and prime ministers (Churchill) – right out of the Chavez Guide to Revolution. First, tear down the statues of dead people – check! Next, insert new memorials like George Floyd Tee shirts – check! After this step, BLACK EXIT’s Candace Owens tweeted, “what civilized country hero-worships violent felons,” and was banned from Twitter.
Owens’ frustration is that Floyd’s contributions in life didn’t merit sanctification – like Kobe Bryant or Dr. King. Stanford’s Victor Davis Hanson suggests the motives behind Floyd’s martyrdom are humiliation and power: shame white liberals (silence is violence) and force Democrats to defund the police (see Minneapolis). In 2017, Hanson warned American liberals of the third cancel-culture step: elimination of living people deemed non-woke.
Three years later, institutions are shedding garden-variety liberals at an alarming rate. To wit, after Republican Sen. Tom Cotton’s Op-Ed in the New York Times, woke co-workers forced editor James Bennet to resign. According to Hanson, this cannibalism is “true of most revolutionaries [who] are ignorant and [without] self-doubt” whose “zeal for perfection” results in the purge of former allies (e.g. Stalin ousting Trotsky). To say the least, the 2020 election is a Battle Royale for law and order.