May 4, 2021
Are Republicans afraid of the Squad?
By Bob Weir
A serious problem in our country is the lack of commitment to the Constitution and the rejection of the moral values that made us the envy of the world. We are the inheritors of a nation born out of a hard fought revolution, which freed us from tyranny and provided us with the opportunity to construct a financial, industrial, and military superpower out of primitive wilderness. We may have a checkered history because of slavery and other human rights violations, but we were a new nation that had a lot of learning and growing to do. We grew our way out of the slavery era by fighting a civil war that cost the lives of about a million Americans, both military and civilians.
It took another 55 years to pass the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Today, blacks and women are among the leaders of industry, finance, sports, and politics. Those many years amount to the growing pains of a country that had come to terms with its shortcomings. We should keep in mind that it could have happened only because there were enough decent people to see how immoral it was to continue on a path of inequality. We must also keep in mind that there are hardly any people alive today who had anything to do with the past discriminatory practices. Therefore, to indict our country as racist is a blanket accusation that is as unfair in the present as inequality was in the past.
Yet we are constantly beset by radical people and groups who want to pretend racism is at epic proportions, alleging that nothing has changed since the days of women's suffrage and Jim Crow. Moreover, we are being bombarded incessantly by radicals within the government who use their platforms to spread one hateful anti-American rant after another. Most prominent among them are the despicable quartet known as "The Squad." Four congresswomen — Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — have been spreading a socialist-communist dogma rivaling anything ever spit from the rancorous lips of Marx and Engels.
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