Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Prattville Dragoons Commander's Column for September 2019 - The Demise of Patriotism in the Current Generation


“The values that Americans say define the national character are changing, as younger generations rate patriotism, religion and having children as less important to them than did young people two decades ago,” according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.  (https://www.foxnews.com/us/young-americans-care-less-about-patriotism-religion-and-family-than-previous-generations-study-says) “Among people 55 and older, for example, nearly 80 percent said patriotism was very important, compared with 42 percent of those ages 18-38 — the millennial generation and older members of Gen-Z.”   I wondered the other day how long it had been since I heard the song “America the Beautiful”.  “O beautiful for Pilgrim feet, whose stern impassioned stress, A thoroughfare for freedom beat, across the wilderness.”  Today these words would meet with condemnation from the politically correct crowd highlighting the European oppression of the native Americans.    The “amber waves of grain above the fruited plain” is rejected as the destruction of old-growth forests and resultant climate change.    “O beautiful for heroes proved, in liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life” brings to mind the privileged white nationalists whose monuments are toppled by Antifa anarchists in the name of multiculturalism and historical revisionism.  Truly a hymn of oppressive imperialism.   Patriotism and the study of our nation’s history and civics lessons have been removed from our children’s formative education and curriculum.   Prayer has been taken out of the public schools along with any semblance of discipline.  Supposed sports heroes kneel in silent protest against the United States flag and law enforcement.   
Parents are forced to spend thousands of dollars to send their children to private schools which still emphasize a foundation based on the Word of God.   My little girl and boy attend a Christian school where the school schedule includes chapel each day where the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag is recited each day.  At each home football game, the “Star Spangled Banner” is played and a prayer offered to start each contest.   It was refreshing to attend the recent Children of the Confederacy event at the Alabama State Archives where the children led the agenda which began with the recitation of the Cof C Creed followed by the pledges to the U.S., Christian and Confederate flags.   The Cof C Creed states, “We pledge ourselves to preserve pure ideals: to honor our veterans; to study and teach the truths of history (one of the most important of which is that the War Between the States was not a rebellion nor was its underlying cause to sustain slavery) and to always act in a manner that will reflect honor upon our noble and patriotic ancestors.”   When doing a web search for that verbiage, I was astonished at the first search results which proclaimed,  “Children of the Confederacy Creed plaque in Capitol is indefensible and should come down.” (Houston Chronicle);  “Confederacy Creed marker at the state Capitol is an embarrassment to Texas; plaque in (the Texas) state capitol building is tantamount to public endorsement of a revisionist lie.”  (Dallas Morning News);  “You can debunk this Confederate plaque in minutes. What’s taking Texas so long?” (Texas Tribune)   Any wonder that many have forecasted that Texas may well turn blue in the coming electoral cycle, electing as its majority the PC progressive socialists?  
Many in the new Confederate States of America wanted to retain the US flag as they viewed themselves as preserving the true founding principles.  George Washington was featured on the Great Seal of the Confederacy as he was indeed the father of the CSA too.  Many of the military leaders of Confederacy were long held to embody the ideals of honor and service and patriotism including by future U.S. Presidents like Roosevelt and Eisenhower.  But the revisionist, multicultural, agnostic-atheist, one-world-order, open border socialist-anarchists know better than our nation’s founding fathers.  Cling to your Bible and your guns deplorables.

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