Trump 1776 Commission calls for unity with founding values

 Editor : Li Hong / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/01/19/a103035202.html / Direct translation

Image : On December 12, 2020, US President Trump is at the White House. (Al Drago/Getty Images)

On Monday (January 18), the "1776 Commission" of US President Donald Trump issued a public report stating its performance to re-examine the task of re-examining the history of the founding of the United States, and strive to reunite Americans around the founding values ​​and principles of the country. This commission was established in the last year of Trump's first term. The reason for its establishment is that there are "serious differences" in the current Americans' meaning to their country, history, and how to govern the country. At present, more and more people believe that the history of the United States is based on racism and racial oppression. After re-examining the principles and ideals contained in the "Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States", the report wrote, "The United States, like any other country, has not perfectly practiced the universal truths of equality, freedom, justice, and harmonious governance. Before the United States, no country dared to take these truths as the official foundation of its politics, and no country has made more efforts to realize these truths." The author of the report spent a lot of time discussing the challenges to the United States’ principles of nationhood. Some of these challenges are historical, such as the existence of slavery, which is fundamentally incompatible with the notion that "all men are created equal"; others are more modern, such as progressiveism, which believes that the constitution should evolve to ensure continuous right to development; the fascist and communist movements seek to establish a totalitarian government that does not respect individual rights; there is also modern identity politics, which supports the establishment of a clear group privilege system in the name of "social justice" and so on. The report stated, “Although the arguments, strategies and names of these movements have changed, and the scale of the challenges are also different, they are all united by insisting on the same error, that is, people should not have equal value and equal value. right." The report warned that modern political movements are in danger of deviating from the principles of the founding of the United States, and pointed out that many historical movements have succeeded because they helped to uphold these principles, rather than deviate from them. The authors of the report wrote, “Great reforms such as the abolition of the death penalty, women’s suffrage, anti-communism, civil rights movements, and anti-abortion movements often spring up and increase our dedication to the principles of the United States Declaration of Independence stipulated by the Constitution. " The report called for a "national revival" education to teach future American citizens the basic principles and character necessary to practice these principles. According to the author, patriotic education does not mean ignoring the shortcomings of the country in the past, but to look at history with a clear and healthy attitude, with awe and love. The report warns that American colleges and universities are doing exactly the opposite. They have become "a hotbed of anti-Americanism, slandering the United States, and shielding true information." Their intention is to "manipulate opinions, not educate ideas." The report specifically mentioned the historian Howard Zinn and the Pulitzer Prize winner 1619 project because they prevented students from seeing the humanity, kindness and kindness of American historical figures. Instead, they showed young readers a distorted version of American history. The report reads: "American historical revisionism tramples on honest academic and historical truth, only emphasizes the sins of their ancestors to shame Americans, and promotes systemic racism that only through more discrimination can eliminate discrimination. This is a kind of systemic racism. Ideology is aimed at manipulating opinions, not ideological education." The report said, The revival of American unity will depend on whether every American is willing to stand up against the tyranny they face in their daily lives. The report pointed out, "The most important thing is that we must bravely face the petty tyrants in all fields. They demand that we can only talk about the sins of the United States and deny the greatness of the United States." "At home, in school, in the workplace, Even in the world, we have the right to stand up for the United States. It is the people who can defend our way of life, and only the people." Source : The Epoch Times