There has been a lot of talk among
campus progressives in recent years about the need to “decolonize”
Thanksgiving. For example, the University of Oregon held an event titled
“Thanks, But No Thanks-giving,”
the description of which read in part: “Thanksgiving is, foundationally
speaking, a celebration of the ongoing genocide against native peoples and
cultures across the globe.” Sure. Show me a family that doesn’t gather
around the dining room table with bowed heads saying, “We thank Thee for the
ongoing genocide against native peoples and cultures across the globe. Let us
celebrate!”
The Huffington Post recently
suggested that Thanksgiving
be cancelled due to its large carbon footprint.
Ironically, the coddled and
entitled, like many students and professors on college campuses, are often the
least grateful. Those who seem to have everything are often the least thankful.
Rich, spoiled Hollywood types foam at the mouth (when they’re not stuffing it
with caviar and expensive champagne), railing against Trump and his supporters
and/or a laundry list of supposed “systemic” injustices inherent to the country
that has allowed them to get rich pretending to be someone they’re not.
Meanwhile, those in “flyover country” with comparatively little are often
deeply thankful for what they do have, and grateful to be living in the United
States of America.
Leftists in entertainment and media
tend to angrily rant. Democratic-Socialists demonize America, her founding
principles, traditions and success. Antifa and BLM thugs take to the streets to
loot and destroy. They, literally, trash the country. Meanwhile conservatives
tend to devoutly appreciate much of what came before them-- as well as what
they have now. And they pick up the trash. Their own and what
progressives leave behind.
Many tenured professors at “elite”
universities and so-called “journalists” at “elite” media outlets smugly
denigrate the very society that afforded them the platform to reflexively
denounce it… while many military veterans past and present were and are
thankful for the freedoms—and the nation-- they fought for despite the immense
sacrifices they made.
Decade after decade, it seems the
better off we’ve gotten, the less religious and appreciative we’ve become. Our
material wealth has not led to spiritual wealth. In fact, it appears to have
led to a certain Sodom and Gomorrah-like moral poverty. Memo to elites: this is
not “sophistication,” but ennui, a sad and ironic sickness of the soul. And it
has ultimately led us to where we are now: the most powerful nation on Earth
appears to have lost its soul. It is said that Rome finally fell when its
citizens forgot what it meant to be Roman. Too many of us residing in this
country have forgotten what it means to be an American.
The smartest people realize how
little they know. (This makes clear the ignorance of many of our arrogant
elites.) However, the luckiest people realize how lucky they are.
Though times are tough at the
moment, in large part due to our power-hungry elitist leaders, perhaps we
should look around, bow our heads, and give thanks that we have anything at
all.
And rededicate ourselves to saving
the last, best hope of Earth…no matter what it takes to do so.
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