Finneran: Confounding America’s Critics

Friday, June 07, 2019

Tom Finneran, GoLocalWorcester MINDSETTER™

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There’s an obvious loathing of the United States on college campuses and among the self-anointed global intelligentsia.

European elites are notorious for their condescension of all things American. How ironic that those elites were saved at least twice by the young sons of the people they disdain. City kids from Boston, New York, and New Jersey, teemed up with hillbilly kids from Georgia and Tennessee and farm boys from Nebraska as they marched across a Europe pinioned under the boots of German soldiery and the heel of Hitler.

Our college campuses are even more bewildering in their ignorance and their sense of entitlement. Is there anything more obnoxious than pampered faculty and administrators leading amazingly ignorant students in enraged denunciation of America’s history. Their hostility to free speech, to freedom of association, and to the free exercise of religion is astounding. Yet today, no one can claim to be surprised. For far too long their antics have been encouraged and applauded. Talk about privilege and other accusatory nonsense………..they are intolerant bullies, spouting hate in the name of decrying hate. What phonies. What crybabies.

That America’s history is replete with aggression is no secret. Our racial history is an utter disgrace. Our violation of treaties and agreements with Native Americans is well-documented and well-known. Our treatment of women has not been a proud moment. The list of negatives is lengthy.

As is the list of positives. That’s a list however which is never to be acknowledged by those faculty-lounge poseurs.

It’s an amazing feature of America’s campuses that they reserve their infatuated swooning for Fidel, for Che, and for Mao. And for the wonders of the Soviet Union. Brutal murderous individuals and regimes get the kid glove treatment and all sorts of contextual “explanations” as to why their prisons, their gulags, and their firing squads were necessitated in pursuit of their workers’ paradises. America’s less than perfect history bears up quite favorably upon comparison with these brutes.

Two dates this week got me thinking about such things. June 4th of 1989 and June 6th of 1944 sparked the comparison.

It was in 1944---seventy five years ago this week---that America launched its might and its manpower against Nazi Germany. It is no exaggeration to say that these were the forces of good fighting the forces of evil and that the future of mankind depended upon the outcome. Score one—a big one-- for America.

It was in 1989---thirty years ago this week--- that we saw the forces of evil at work. Communist China, Red China if you will, showed its true face in Tiananmen Square. Remember that this is Chairman Mao’s self-proclaimed people’s paradise, using tanks and rifles against unarmed but brave people who yearned for freedom. That’s some paradise. A tank against a lone man………ponder that for a moment. China’s penchant for suffocation of any dissent remains a disgraceful constant.

And so I present to America’s critics a scorecard:

America---something less than perfectly virtuous, but with victories in the fight against slavery, in the two fights against German domination, and in the long Cold War struggle against hideous totalitarian regimes.

vs.

China, the Soviet Union, and Soviet puppets, run by murderers for murderers, delighting in theft, prisons, torture and concentration camps.

Only an academic could fail to see the score. As Stalin once said of them, they are “useful idiots”.

{image_2}Tom Finneran is the former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, served as the head the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, and was a longstanding radio voice in Boston radio

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