Only liberals are icons.
I was visiting an office in a heavily Hispanic part of town, an organization that helps (supposedly) immigrants with social services, legal and other representation. I suspect the office also serves as a sort of underground railroad to funnel illegals into the country.
There were computer banks set up and paperwork tacked to the walls, all in Spanish language (even the calendar).
On a wall was a large framed picture of Che Guevara.
Not Lincoln, not Washington, not even the historic darling of the liberal elite, JFK, but Che Guevara.
If you’re under forty years old and don’t know, Guevara was a Bolshevik doctor, henchman and executioner for Fidel Castro who played a leading role in the enslavement of the island of Cuba.
Some people think highly of him.
I don’t.
There is a possibility that given the influx of immigrants into this country, Guevara’s birthday will be celebrated in ten years as an American holiday.
I have no problem with Martin Luther King’s birthday as a holiday (at least he was American). Cesar Chavez, the labor leader and farm workers’ organizer; his birthday will no doubt soon be a recognized holiday.
How come only liberal, politically correct people get holidays and memorials?
When was the last time a dead conservative had a birthday declared a holiday?
Nada! None! Zip!
How about a Barry Goldwater birthday-holiday? Goldwater was the lone candle in the ill-winds-1960s-era of runaway big government welfare spending and social decay who was derided by the media establishment as a dangerous hawk. Goldwater was painted as an extremist who would escalate the Vietnam War (Lyndon Johnson escalated it).
Goldwater was clearly a heroic man, even if you didn’t like his politics. He almost single-handedly championed traditional values a good number of Americans still respect. He was a holdout, who made the Reagan years possible (for good or bad), and the modern conservative movement, everything from today’s right-wing radio talk show host, to that so-called “compassionate conservative,” George Bush Jr.
Are we to assume that in assigning birthdays as national holidays, conservatism has offered nothing of value to the country, and therefore is not deserving of any recognition?
I think there’s room for holidays on both sides of the political spectrum (I love days off, the more the better).
However, Dan Rather thinks only politically correct architects of social engineering and wealth redistribution are heroic.
When the birthday of some liberal is suddenly declared a holiday, I always ask, who decided this? It just happens. I didn’t have a vote. I think who gets a holiday is determined by a shadowy secret group independent of everyone living between Los Angeles and New York.
You can bet the Goldwater birthday-holiday will never happen. He won’t be an icon praised on the Disney Channel.
