Statues Are Not The End Game Of Historical Cleansing...Our Democracy Is On A Timer

John Galt says hello. Ain't like we weren't warned 60 years ago.

Who do you put your faith in to stop it?

Anyone looking objectively can see where this is going, regardless if that was the intended destination or not. This is the logic that's brought us to this point:

-These were people that supported slavery so their monuments must be torn down and their names removed from notoriety.
-Anyone that supports keeping them must therefore be the same type of slavery-supporting individuals so they must be met with force.

Now we get to what's already brewing but hasn't quite come to fruition yet:
-These other figures were slave owners so their monuments and names must come down as well (specifically Washington and Jefferson at this point, it won't be long until it's extended to others like Madison, Jay, Adams and even Franklin regardless that he turned Abolitionist and freed his slaves).
-Anyone that supports keeping them must be... etc.

The next logical step in that progression:
-Any works these proponents/supporters of slavery have done must be brought down just like their monuments were because they are tainted with the blood of slaves. This becomes important because the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were written by slave owners thus...
-Anyone that supports keeping those works, even for historical purposes must be a pro-slavery fascist and must be met with force.

Granted, there's a LOT of ground that would have to be covered between where we are and the possible endpoint. There will be those that say we will never get that, but then again many of those same people were saying just months ago that no one would try to do anything to Jackson Square.

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‘Take ‘Em Down NOLA’ president Malcolm Suber called for streets such as General Ogden and Jefferson Davis Parkway to be renamed and the monument to President Andrew Jackson, though unassociated with the Confederacy, to come down.

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IDGAF how many degrees you have "earned" or what profession you engage in to make a living. There will be no radical changes to the constitution of the United States, nor a ne-naming of the Capital of our country for any small revolutionary/terrorist movement(s).

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If you told James Monroe "Someday we'll change this constitution and give women and Negroes the right to vote" he would have said the same reaction as yours above.

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Statues Are Not The End Game Of Historical Cleansing...Our Democracy Is On A Timer

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Good thing we are a representative republic, and not a democracy.

Your slippery slope argument keeps equating this to a constitutional argument. It is not. These statues are on public land and parks. If a municipality or state does not want it there, no matter its historical significance, it has a right to remove them.

Arguing the removal is well within your right to free speech but the removal itself does not unless it is on your property.

On this flip side, the city of Birmingham has ordered the covering of a confederate monument since the state of Alabama passed a law protecting that statue. There is your Constitutional question. Does the federal government have the right to intervene?

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After that, the illegitimacy and lack of moral foundation of our Constitution is next.

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Its been underway for decades already.

Your are absolutely correct. Then it will be off to the Books for the SJW's.