Why do so many young Americans hate their country's heritage?

 Richard D. Land, Christian Post Executive Editor

Question:  Why are so many of America’s young people apparently beguiled into despising America’s founding and heritage?

. . . "As I was writing this column, I was reminded of a deeply moving experience I had while I was speaking at a conference on Freedom in Romania, just after they had overthrown the horrifically brutal Communist dictator Ceausescu in 1989. The conference was on how Romania could now install a free and democratically self-governing society with deep respect for human rights — “a government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

"I was in a private, one-to-one meeting with the Romanian equivalent of the U.S. Attorney General. He pulled a book off the shelf in his office, opened it up, and started reading in English, “When in the course of human events . . .” — the American Declaration of Independence. After he had read the part, “All men are created equal,” he looked up with tears in his eyes and said, “We want what you have.”

"I realized at that moment that I had been guilty of the “sin of familiarity.” We have all heard the shibboleth “familiarity breeds contempt.” I believe far more often it just breeds “familiarity.” We become familiar, blasé if you will, about truly monumental things and fail to sufficiently appreciate just how extraordinary some things really are.

"Shame on us as Americans for far too often treating the timeless truths embodied in the Declaration of Independence familiarly when they are indeed priceless and the Revolution those truths ignited in 1776 has deeply impacted people and ignited the fire of liberty in their hearts both here and around the globe. Those founding principles are what inspired Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to call for his fellow citizens to live up to the ideals spelled out in our founding documents — a call we continue to seek to fulfill for ever greater numbers of our people yet still today.

"So why are so many of our young adults rejecting this widely held view which is a truly glorious heritage? Of all men and women, we are most blessed to be heirs of this inspiring legacy. Well, there are two reasons, one nefarious and the other merely scandalous. " . . . 

Michelle Obama engages in blatant racial demagoguery

 This bitter woman spreads her anger and victimhood to every college class she addresses.

ichelle Obama engages in blatant racial demagoguery  "With less than a month to go to the election, Michelle Obama released a 24-minute-long video in which she lectures her supporters to vote against Trump.  While she found time to throw a few kind words to Biden, Michelle used the bulk of the video to call Trump a liar and racist.  As always, Michelle's facts were false, while her words were intended to trigger people's irrational fears.  Her performance was disgraceful — and was almost certainly intended to counteract Trump's rising popularity among blacks and Hispanics. 

"As you may have gathered, I dislike Michelle Obama, so let me get my biases out of the way.  This is a woman who had every opportunity in life — a stable, two-parent upbringing; a middle-class lifestyle; Ivy League undergraduate and law school educations; high-paying jobs created specifically for her; eight years as the most worshiped, photographed woman in the world after Princess Diana; and an equally worshipful post–White House life, complete with $65 million in her pocket.

"But is Michelle happy?  No.  Has she ever been happy?  No." . . .

. . . I'll end with three videos.  The first is Michelle's harangue. The second puts Michelle's words side-by-side with the violence she denies. The third is a black man whose oration explains the fear driving Michelle's demagoguery." . . .  Videos here, at the bottom.

The BLM Riot Victims Michelle Obama Doesn’t Give a Damn About  . . . "Let's take a look at the data Mrs. Obama is likely referring to. A study by Princeton University found 570 Black Lives Matter led "protests" turned into violent riots." . . . Case in point:

Houston, TX: “Mostly Peaceful” BLM Destroys Hispanic Child’s Birthday Party [VIDEO]

Once again, the “peaceful” BLM mob strikes again, but this time at a child’s birthday party. In this video, two women can be seen tossing a table and yelling at the family to “move [their] stuff.” But when the family refused to be bullied, they yanked the table away, destroying the birthday cake and decorations in the process:  . . .

Tony Branco

BLM - A Righteous Cause or Communism in Blackface?

 Ending charter schools would not only do nothing to help minority communities, it will hurt them. If anything, BLM is much more aligned with white Democrats than they are with black people.

American Thinker  . . . "The alignment does not end with white Democrats. BLM and M4BL founder Patrisse Cullors admits in an interview that she and her two cofounder colleagues are “trained Marxists.” Because of this admission, BLM’s official positions should be viewed through that broader lens. Researcher and business analyst Lipton Matthews breaks down in an op-ed why BLM’s opposition to both capitalism and the nuclear family is incredibly problematic and contrary to the core values of the broader black community, as is Marxism itself. M4BL writes:

“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and villages that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”

. . . "For the uninitiated, Marxism is communism, and it is a system in which the government owns all property and distributes as it sees fit. It is a system that has proven to fail time and time again, yet proponents of it continue to infiltrate free societies to romanticize and promote it. The millions of people who have fled communist regimes have much wisdom to offer those of us who think the teachings of Karl Marx are a good thing, but unfortunately, their voices are not elevated like the ones preaching it to the masses. Marxism tends to dress itself in words like “freedom,” “liberation,” or “revolution” to attract young minds. The bitter irony is that Marxism is literally the opposite of those words." . . .

http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Breaking Video: Michelle Obama Goes Low Claiming Trump is “Racist” for Calling Riots Violent

 Radical ANTIFA-BLM Riots Cost Upwards Of $1 Billion, According To Early Estimates  . . . "More than 250 buildings were looted and damaged in St. Paul and Minneapolis during the George Floyd protests. In Dallas, Texas, numerous businesses were vandalized and looted, with some rioters slashing tires and breaking windows on police vehicles. Los Angeles saw a string of looting, burglary, robbery, vandalism and arson during the protests." . . .

Houston, TX: BLM destroys Hispanic child’s birthday party   Watch the video here. "Once again, the “peaceful” BLM mob strikes again, but this time at a child’s birthday party. In this video, two women can be seen tossing a table and yelling at the family to “move [their] stuff.” But when the family refused to be bullied, they yanked the table away, destroying the birthday cake and decorations in the process: . . .

 

. . . "Over the weekend, riots fueled by Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA anarchists continued. The rioters are feeling emboldened by the lack of action from local Democrats who do nothing while the cities are destroyed, and citizens are harassed and assaulted.

"Pittsburgh was the scene of one of the more outrageous BLM groups who screamed in the face of white elderly outdoor diners and then chugged a drink. The BLM crowd swarmed the outdoor dining area as one woman wearing a “Nazi Lives Don’t Matter” t-shirt drank an elderly man’s beer while someone else smashed a glass.

“ 'F*ck 12 and f*ck white people! You old dick!” one BLM militant yelled to a peaceful elderly white man sitting at a table.

"Other violent Biden supporters were breaking glassware and intimidating diners."...

Breaking Video: Michelle Obama Goes Low Claiming Trump is “Racist” for Calling Riots Violent   "Michelle Obama stuck her head up today to give her opinion on the BLM riots. She must not know that the American people have seen video after video of death,

destruction, and extreme violence from BLM agitators. For the past several months, the BLM mobs have destroyed cities by burning, smashing, and looting. She calls the movement overwhelmingly peaceful and then turns around and calls President Trump a racist for telling the truth? This comes from a woman who called a white shopper at Target a racist because she asked Michelle to get something from a high shelf. Victimhood is what Michelle Obama knows and the real sin is that she uses it to get ahead politically. This race hustler needs to crawl back under a rock.

Michelle Obama on "peaceful" BLM riots:  

Trump is “pinning [violence] on what’s been an overwhelmingly peaceful movement for racial solidarity; it’s true, research backs it up; only a tiny fraction of demonstrations have had any violence at all … What the president is doing is … racist.”

For most people, the biggest takeaway from former First Lady Michelle Obama’s virtual commencement address to the class of 2020 on Sunday was this: “Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you’re too angry.”

By their actions and their words, Democrats have instilled in blacks the notion that they are helpless, and the odds are stacked against them. Like all of the Democrat’s lies, it’s been repeated so often, many blacks firmly believe that no matter how hard they work, the system is against them, and they will never get ahead.

. . . "But rather than protesting for more entitlements, why doesn’t she just tell them to work hard in a chosen field and break out of the cycle that continues to keep them stuck? Many blacks have found success in today’s America. The old fashioned way. 

"That would be a lot more empowering than telling them to go out and protest."

Where did debate moderators learn Journalism?

 Who can forget Ted Cruz's takedown of the MSNBC moderators in 2016 and the pleased look on moderator Carl Quintanilla's face as he oddly enjoyed the moment:

EPIC: Watch Ted Cruz Completely Dismantle CNBC’s Debate Moderators

The debate was barely 30 minutes in, but Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) stole the show when he went directly after CNBC’s Republican primary debate moderators, who had spent a good portion of the debate using their questions as an excuse to attack the Republican candidates on stage.

Trump-Biden Debates: 3 Matchups, With Solo Moderators

"Chris Wallace of Fox News, Steve Scully of C-SPAN and Kristen Welker of NBC News will run the televised proceedings." . . .

‘Thought Wallace was biased?’ Trump supporters call out 2nd debate moderator Steve Scully’s Biden links, including an internship   

Even more concerning for critics are some of Scully’s past tweets, one of which includes him being pictured with Biden in 2016 at a party. 

“Gotta love the @VP at the Biden Beach Bash '16,” Scully tweeted along with the photo. 

      http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

What happens after Trump leaves?

"Whatever the law is, we will obey it; whatever the work is, we will do it; whatever the rules are, we will follow them. But, for the love of God, stop ordering us around! "

Mr. President! Don’t Leave Us!

  Christopher Chantrill   . . . "It is that, without President Trump, we non-wokies are naked before our enemies. Don’t leave us, Mr. President! Not yet! We need you!

"No doubt the president will make a swift recovery with the help of the knowledge that six months of the epidemic has given us.

"But it makes you think. What happens after Trump leaves? Will the Republican Party continue his populist nationalism? Or will it sink back into the Swamp? Will people that violate wokie norms be able to get jobs? Will Google’s hate speech algorithm, that dumped me for a moment last week for using a forbidden word in my blog post “My ‘1584 Project,’” be improved enough when the next Democratic president takes office that it can analyze all political speech on the internet in microseconds to detect and delete forbidden ideas?

"Yes. All I was doing was saying that, if you want to talk about the first slave ship arriving in North America in 1619, Nikole Hannah-Jones, how about the first ship bringing the “waste population” of England to the white trash heap in the Roanoke Colony in 1584? Then I listed all the pejoratives that have been used over the centuries to describe these waste people -- as concocted by a presumably tenured professor of gender, Nancy Isenberg, in her White Trash. The 400-year Untold History of Class in America.

Hollywood divided over Trump

Actress Kirstie Alley issues blistering attack on Democrats: 'Accomplished NOTHING' except 'Devising ways to take TRUMP DOWN'  . . . "The Cheers actress has been an outspoken supporter of Trump, including in March when she thanked him for his coronavirus response.

“ 'Dear Mr. President, @realDonaldTrump. I wanted to thank you for ur recent decorum, sincerity, & care towards us. You’re taking charge & leading in a manner needed & wanted for this country. I highly commend you for ur boundless energy & willingness to solve problems. Thank you,” she tweeted.

"She has also been critical of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, saying this summer that his handlers essentially admitted that Biden “can’t hold his own in a debate with Trump.”

“ 'It’s pretty sad that Dems don’t want Biden to Debate Trump. It’s like saying ‘we know he can’t hold his own in a debate with Trump but could hold his own with world leaders and making monumental decisions for this country,’” she tweeted." . . .

37 Hollywood Stars for Donald Trump

Hollywood Celebrities Triggered by Trump Surprise Visit to Fans Outside Walter Reed: ‘Impeach Him,’ ‘F**king Sociopath’   "Hollywood celebrities experienced a massive conniption when President Donald Trump paid a surprise visit Sunday to his supporters who were rallying outside Walter Reed Military Hospital in Washington.

"The president’s drive-by visit, during which he wore a mask and never left his vehicle, prompted stars including Bette Midler, Jim Carrey, Patton Oswalt, and Michael Moore to express their rage and disbelief on social media.

"Many of those stars claimed that President Trump was endangering the lives of the Secret Service agents assigned to ride along with him. The White House said that the president’s drive was approved by medical officials and that the necessary safety precautions were taken.

"Jim Carrey was among the Hollywood elites who accused the president of putting government lives in danger by taking “the Secret Service for a dangerous ride.”

No mention of the ride to the hospital aboard Marine One

Nick Danger  opined on Jim Carrey:

Sick of these Hollywood pigs. They need the living crap kicked out their sick self-important a s s e s.

Also sick of these girlly boys thinking they have to preface their idiotic statements with the "F" word to sound tough. They aren't tough, they aren't enlightened... They are crude, undisciplined bratty children that don't deserve to be in the U.S.A.

Someone please kick Carrey's sick and twisted butt back to Canada.

Hollywood Celebs Erupt with Rage over Trump Leaving Walter Reed: ‘Faking Recovery!’ Doctors ‘Lying for a Mass Murderer’

Josh Gad: Jews Who Support Trump Are Siding with Nazis

. . . "The photo — as a quick Google Images search confirms — was from Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, not 2020. It shows participants in the “Unite the Right” rally, which hijacked a local protest against the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. President Donald Trump said that the neo-Nazis and white supremacists involved should be “condemned totally.”

"Gad retweeted the photo, and added the comment: “Any of my fellow Jews who support Trump, just know that you are standing alongside these folks and this flag. You may tell yourself you support him for different reasons but at the end of the day, his message resonates with NAZIS. That should be enough to walk away.”

"Richard Spencer, a neo-Nazi who was one of the organizers of the Charlottesville rally, has endorsed Joe Biden for president. " . . .

Kamala Harris featured on cover of Elle ahead of vice presidential debate

 Washington Examiner via Conservative Review

"Hours ahead of the vice presidential debate between California Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence, Elle released a cover story on the Democratic vice presidential nominee's optimism and "the fight for justice and freedom she's been waging since birth."

"Part of the magazine's Women in Politics series, the interview grounds Harris's political life in her childhood as she grew up as a black and Indian American child — following her path from growing up in Oakland to becoming a prosecutor, a senator, and now, the Democratic vice presidential nominee.

"The story documents her "get things done" attitude — whether that was getting a hold of former White House chief of staff John Kelly in the first months of her tenure in the Senate or getting white people to "fight harder against racist systems and actions" by showing them "how racism also hurts them.' " . . .

25 Questions Kamala Harris Should Be Asked in the Debate  "Wednesday’s vice presidential debate provides an opportunity for the American public to get answers from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). 

"The Democratic vice presidential nominee should be asked the following 25 questions. This list is by no means exhaustive.

"Many of these questions were suggested by this author last month, but because they remain unanswered, I offer them again in the hope that the debate moderator will see fit to get answers from the California senator who, if elected, will be one heart beat away from the presidency." To wit:

8. Last June, you encouraged your Twitter followers to donate to a bail fund to assist protesters arrested in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, riots. Are you aware that in July this bail fund sprang from jail a man who was accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl? In August, the fund posted bail for a man accused of assaulting a 71-year-old woman whose home he had burglarized. In June, the fund helped bail out a man accused of stomping and robbing a victim in Minneapolis on the same day George Floyd died. Between June and August, the fund helped bail out six men who were accused of domestic violence, including two who were accused of strangling women in their homes. Do you have any words for the victims of these crimes?

Is there a more loathsome group of people than the White House press corps?

They would rather see a mentally compromised man be elected president of the U.S. than let the best president in decades be re-elected because his outsider status, his blunt talk, and his successes offend them.  The "why" of their offense at Trump's existence is a mystery. 

God bless Kayleigh McEnany for suffering these fools daily

Patricia McCarthy  "Well, there is Antifa, the violent arm of BLM, the Muslim Brotherhood, et al., but for what is supposed to be an assemblage of professional, objective journalists, this White House press corps is about as mature as a clique of mean girls in any middle school.

"They are as politically deluded as Baghdad Bob, pathetically self-important, ridiculously overly impressed with their own positions of power and influence, and as malicious as Shakespeare's Iago.  When they do not get their way, they act out like toddlers in the throes of a tantrum.  This has all been true since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president.  In their view, so presumptuous was his foolish attempt to be president that they set out to sabotage him from moment one, to utterly destroy him by any means necessary.

"The long list of their failures in this endeavor is legion and would be humorous if it were a Dickens novel, but it is the White House press corps!  While their glee at the news that Trump had contracted COVID was shameful, their hysteria over his brief ride in The Beast to wave to supporters outside the hospital, their abject fury at his being released from Walter Reed today, was beyond redemption.  These people are seriously mentally ill.  They wanted him to die, and he didn't.". . . 

 The mainstream media has actually been the enemy of the people for many years but the damage they do has escalated and become institutionalized. It became downright Sovietized during the Obama administration. It fell in with Obama's race-baiting anti-Americanism, his determination to "transform" this nation into something very unlike the Founders' vision, and more. Obama hated our Constitution. For the media, Obama could do no wrong while in fact he was doing terrible damage to the country on numerous levels. But he hypnotized our submissive media and made them his own propaganda machine. Hillary counted on their continued loyalty which she would have had and does have; they report nothing about her devising the Russia hoax to derail Trump. She belongs in prison for treason but they will

protect her to the bitter end and her end will be bitter despite the fawning media. President Trump has done us all favor. His fearlessness has exposed the media for who and what they are, a childish cabal of petty thugs who whine when they don't get the answers they want from the President or his staff. They will one day reap what they have sown, the opprobrium they deserve.

The Media Coverage Of Trump’s Covid Diagnosis Was A Disgrace "Yes, there were some people who straight up wished the president, his wife and others affected at the White House would jut die already, but most responses were more muted, along the lines of “we all hope the best for the first family, but …”

CNN’s Brian Stelter Claims Trump ‘Recommends Getting Sick’ In Latest Health Update

Rescued from the memory hole: The disgrace that caused Biden to withdraw and slink away from running for president in 1988

There is no reason why Joe Biden should be tolerated as a presidential candidate when he proved himself to be such an untrustworthy scoundrel that he withdrew in shame.

Syracuse.com

Thomas Lifson  "This video from 1988 is well worth 4+ minutes of your time for several reasons.

"The Joe Biden of 32 years ago is a stark contrast to the doddering old man we see today.  It is really startling to see how animated and emphatic he was back then.  The extent of his mental deterioration is made vividly clear.

"Equally vivid is the extent of his perfidiousness, his utter lack of character and willingness to lie about his life.  Because he continues to lie about himself today, it is clear that he has not changed a bit from the defects of character that caused him to withdraw in shame from the quest for the nation's highest office.

"This segment from Connie Chung's CBS Evening News, back when the MSM were not mindless propaganda outlets for the Democrats, shows Biden delivering lines stolen from British left-wing Labor politician Neil Kinnock, followed by Kinnock delivering those same lines before Biden stole them.  It is quietly hilarious." . . .

Rush Talks to Conrad Black About President Trump

RUSH: We rarely on this program have guests, but we do make exceptions. Today is such an exception. We are happy to welcome back Conrad Black, who is a noted columnist, author, broadcast and media baron now residing in Canada and author of a new book, a paperback version update of a book he published two years ago, it’s called A President Like No Other: Donald J. Trump and the Restoring of America.

Rush Limbaugh and Conrad Black on the press . . . Lord "I think they feel that he is threatening their influence in the political life of the country and they don’t like it. Now, add to that most of them tend to be leftish and snobbish. And leftists and snobs don’t much care for Donald Trump because he is not a man of the left, although he’s certainly not a reactionary, either. He’s a man of the people, but not the left. And they are of course not the same thing. And he is informal and straight talking and politically incorrect. And that tends to incite stupefying levels of snobbery.

"And he is the victim of that, but he’s also the beneficiary of that because as all the polls indicate, the media are in a uniquely low repute in the country. And incidentally, you haven’t raised this, but I will if (unintelligible), I think that that whole state of affairs is worrisome because we have to have a free press to have a functioning democracy, and we can’t have any one government or anyone else tampering with it. But we have a very inferior press, not only the United States, but it’s a problem throughout the advanced western countries.

"And when the public disdains the press, I believe that is eventually dangerous situation. We have to have a free press that is respected. But it can only be respected if it earns that respect. And as you said a minute ago, the conduct of the media at this election campaign has been absolutely scandalous. They are full of malice, and they are liars. And one hesitates to use such inflammatory phrases, but I cannot take issue with the president when he said they are enemies of the people. To the extent that they deliberately misinform the public, that’s what they are, enemies." . . .

Will Democrats try to ‘Bork’ or ‘Kavanaugh’ SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett? (Reader Poll)

 Legal Insurrection  "Republican Supreme Court nominees repeatedly have been attacked at a personal level not directed at Democrat nominees.

"The term to “Bork” a nominee grew out of the Democrat treatment of Reagan nominee Robert Bork, and we all saw how Brett Kavanaugh was mistreated just two years ago.

"What does it mean to be Borked or Kavanaughed? We’ll know it when we see it.

"Will Amy Coney Barrett receive the “Bork” and “Kavanaugh” treatment?

"So far, there was an initial burst of venom directed at her, including questioning her adoption of two children from Haiti, and of course the anti-Catholic bigotry she faced when she was nominated for the Court of Appeals in 2017. The hysterics also have centered around Obamacare and Roe v. Wade. But so far, it’s kid stuff compared to what Bork and Kavanaugh (and Thomas, and Alito, and Estrada, etc.) have gone through.

"The hearings start October 12, with two more days of questioning, then a floor vote on October 22. So Democrats have some time. Remember, with Kavanaugh the fake sexual assault allegations came out after the committee hearings were over. So the end of the hearings is not the end of the threat. Until the floor vote, she is vulnerable.

"Right now, there is no doubt they are digging into her childhood, teen years, and college years, hopring to find someone to accuse her of something. They also not doubt are scouring her friends, family, and her husband’s connections also. These are really bad people, they will do anything if they think they can get away with it.

"So, the poll is: Will Democrats try to ‘Bork’ or ‘Kavanaugh’ SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett?" . . .

McConnell Suspends Senate Floor Proceedings, Judge Barrett’s Hearings Remain on Schedule

Republicans are almost certain to confirm an outstanding judge. But a simmering anti-Catholicism threatens to break through.  "The Democrats have essentially given up on blocking the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This does not imply, however, that they will fail to turn her hearings into a nasty farce of smears of the nominee as an adherent to a voodoo-like religious devotion, and a passionate seeker of an America with no assisted healthcare and back-alley abortions. " . . .

No, Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation Won’t Necessarily End Roe v. Wade 

A close look at Amy Coney Barrett's legal writings indicates deep respect for the precedent set by landmark Supreme Court cases.