Kit Carson Becomes an Unperson

by Dave Blount | June 16, 2014 2:20 pm

As George Orwell observed,

“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”

Even as progressives consolidate their control of the present, they are using it to remake the past to support the future they intend to inflict. This means obliterating the cultural heritage of the American West, which consists mainly of qualities such as rugged individualism that liberals cannot abide and intend to eradicate.

The glorious chapter in our past that provided so much inspiration for Hollywood during its glory days forms a key component of America’s identity. Therefore, historical figures associated with the Old West must be demonized so as to justify reducing them to unpersons and stuffing them down the memory hole. For future generations, it will be as if they had never existed.

In the current political climate, demonization is easy to accomplish. Simply accuse the person to be erased of holding attitudes toward certain racial groups that in today’s society would be considered politically incorrect. For example, the great Mark Twain, a writer of the West, has been subjected to this treatment; his works will eventually be banished from libraries for including the forbidden N-word.

Kit Carson was arguably the personification of the Old West. Taos, New Mexico has the high honor of having been his home. But…

…the name of Kit Carson, the famed scout, explorer, trapper, soldier and Indian agent, will no longer grace Taos’ centerpiece downtown park. The Town Council passed a resolution Tuesday night to change the name to Red Willow Park.

You can guess where this is going. Carson – who lived among Indians but who also fought them – is now regarded as having been insufficiently 21st century in his attitudes and allegiances. Sure enough:

“This is about trying to begin to reconcile the transgressions of the past,” council member Fritz Hahn said Wednesday.

The park, named Kit Carson Park as long as locals can remember, gets its new name from Taos itself. The town’s name is derived from the Tiwa word for red willow. Kit Carson, who died in 1868, is buried in the cemetery at the park.

The council voted 3-1 in favor of the change after a presentation from Linda Yardley, a Native American…

“She feels uncomfortable in the park, which is named after someone who egregiously hurt her people,” said Hahn. “We have got to heal the wreckage of the past, and Kit Carson is part of that.”

By “the wreckage of the past,” he is referring to the establishment of American civilization in the Southwest.

Those of us who feel “uncomfortable” about having our history erased don’t have a voice in the matter. Moonbats call all of the shots these days.

Within a few generations, the only representatives of the 19th century anyone will remember will be the likes of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Maybe Robert E. Lee will be kept around for the Two Minutes Hate.

For liberals, it isn’t enough to import millions of illegal aliens from the Third World to displace us. They feel compelled to eradicate the foundations of our culture, so that it will be as if real Americans had never existed.

Progressives intend for the Culture War to result in total extirpation. That it is why it is absolutely unthinkable that we would let them prevail.

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How long before they dig up his grave?

On a tip from Chris W. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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