UW-Madison students call for removal of Lincoln statue

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94. I'm beginning to see where our views diverge.

While I abhor the white supremacy that runs to the core of the confederacy, your issue is that their secession was treason. I'm not sure who you think views our founding fathers as "evil wretches" as you put it, certainly not me (at least, not most of them). But while many of them contributed much, and some had progressive views for the era in which they lived, their white supremacy is not up for debate and the days of honoring white supremacists with statues and monuments are fading quickly.

We aren't enemies. I simply disagree that straddling the proverbial fence is going to win us any elections. Rocking the boat is EXACTLY what we need to do to win. We learned in 2016 that trying to focus-group a messaging campaign isn't effective. People want passion and they want honesty. Pretending to get along with the center right so that we don't offend their sensibilities is the wrong way to win the election. We need to show them we're different and we need to show them why they should be different too. You don't do that by telling people what they want to hear - you do it by showing them what they need to see. If that's tearing down a statue of Christopher Columbus, banning confederate flags, or burning large swaths of a city to the ground after yet another state agent murdering a person of color, then that is exactly what we do.

Lo and behold it appears to be working.