For years, America has been defined by historic landmarks—periods of history that united the people of this land. Now, however, the left is working overtime not just to tear down those landmarks, but to install twisted, divisive landmarks of their own.

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From the Daily Wire:

Every nation lives by its landmarks. These are not merely dates on a calendar, but signposts dividing history into “before” and “after.” They anchor collective memory and shape how a people understand themselves.

For Americans, the great landmarks have long been clear: 1492, the discovery of the New World; 1776, independence; 1861, the Civil War; 1929, the Great Depression; 1964, the Civil Rights Act. To speak of “before” and “after” these events is to tell the story of a nation striving toward freedom, law, and self-government.

In recent years, however, new landmarks have been imposed by ideological fiat. The most striking is the New York Times’s 1619 Project, which declared that America began not in 1776 but in the year enslaved Africans first arrived in Virginia. With that shift, the axis of history moved: “before and after independence” became “before and after slavery.” Liberty and law were redefined as hypocrisy and oppression. More dividing lines quickly followed: before and after Jim Crow, before and after George Floyd, and so on.

The Daily Wire cites the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as as an example of this sort of historical shift. When the CCP took power, it imposed a single landmark, dividing Chinese history into two broad periods: “before liberation” and “after liberation.” It imposed another landmark after Mao’s disastrous rule of the party, once again dividing its history into “before Reform and Opening-Up” and “after.”

According to the Daily Wire, the CCP demonized everything that came “before” while glorifying everything that came “after.” This extended to people as Chinese people were divided into broad “good” and “bad” classes, such as oppressors and the oppressed. The Daily Wire notes that hatred against the “bad” classes “was not just tolerated but demanded.”

Perhaps most shocking is how the same divisive approach to culture has manifested in America at the hands of the left. The left has set slavery and “white oppression” at its chief landmark, dividing our history accordingly. What is worse is that, according to the left, we are still living in the times of white oppression, and the only was out is to entirely dismantle our society, which they argue is built on “racism, bigotry, and justice.”

The Daily Wire notes that “nations cannot thrive on grievance.” We cannot rewrite our history into a story of oppressors and oppressed. We have to unite around our shared history, however imperfect it may be. And, most important, we must completely reject the left’s attempts to erase our history.

As America approaches its 250th birthday, let’s pray for an end to these attempts to hijack, erase, and rewrite history!

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(Excerpt from the Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)