Rushmore

Good movie!

I did not watch President Trump's July 3 speech at Mt Rushmore because I can't stand watching or listening to him.

Then I heard the speech described as "dark and divisive" and defending the Confederate flag.

I thought to myself, why can't we have a President who talks like this instead of Trump?

Our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity.  No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America.  And no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of our great nation.

It was all made possible by the courage of 56 patriots who gathered in Philadelphia 244 years ago and signed the Declaration of Independence.   They enshrined a divine truth that changed the world forever when they said: “…all men are created equal.”

These immortal words set in motion the unstoppable march of freedom.  Our Founders boldly declared that we are all endowed with the same divine rights — given [to] us by our Creator in Heaven.  And that which God has given us, we will allow no one, ever, to take away — ever. 

Oh, wait.  That is what Trump said!  After reading the media descriptions I decided I needed to actually read the darn thing and to my surprise it is probably the first speech given by the President with which I agree 100%!

He went on to say:

We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed.  Every child, of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God.

We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture.

We embrace tolerance, not prejudice.

And he accurately pointed out the danger currently emerging in America, a danger threatening every decent American whatever their race, ethnicity or religion:

The radical ideology attacking our country advances under the banner of social justice.  But in truth, it would demolish both justice and society.  It would transform justice into an instrument of division and vengeance, and it would turn our free and inclusive society into a place of repression, domination, and exclusion.

That those in the media and elsewhere who actively promote divisiveness, racial hatred, and intolerance accuse the President of the same is merely a matter of projection for them.  It is what they are all about.

Then I saw Senator Tammy Duckworth state that the Mt Rushmore speech was about "dead traitors" so thinking I'd missed something I went back and reread the speech.  Here are all the people and groups named by the President during the speech (excluding the ones already on Rushmore):

U.S. Grant
Andrew Jackson
Martin Luther King
Frederick Douglass
Wild Bill Hickok
Buffalo Bill Cody
Wright Brothers
Tuskegee Airmen
Harriet Tubman
Clara Barton
Jesse Owens
George Patton
Louis Armstrong
Alan Shepard
Elvis
Mohammed Ali
Walt Whitman
Mark Twain
Irving Berlin
Ella Fitzgerald
Frank Sinatra
Bob Hope

I don't see any traitors?  Do you?

Go read the speech for yourself.

And yesterday the Trump Administration, which I've been repeatedly assured by progressives is racist, conducted the first execution of a federal prisoner in 17 years.  The person executed was a white supremacist.