Two Competing Mythologies in the USA

detail from Apotheosis of Washington

This is a rehash of an old post on Jeffersonian Democracy and Empire. If you were raised in the United States prior to the 1980s or maybe even later, there's a pretty good chance you were brought up believing in the mythology of the founding of the United States. The United States was meant to be a break with a corrupt past where lizard people conmen--inbred European aristocrat freakazoid tyrants and their minions set the agenda for all--which meant war, war, war. The idea of America was that common people--the eternal yeomanry--could create a just society and kick ass.

Then commies and Bolsheviks, Fabian Socialists and German Intellectuals showed up with a competing ideology--various versions of Marxism. The current version of their con is they can create a technocratic society--some version of Plato's Republic--and manage every aspect of life toward some noble goal du jour. The commies are a new mask on the face of the aristocracy and their court. Same shit, different day. Inbred freakazoids trying to rob everyone and control everything.

The Commies grabbed the mainstream media and entertainment business and started propagandizing the entire population. They tried to kill off the founding mythology by saying it was racist, pointing out the hypocrisy of slave holders advocating freedom, etc... but the founding mythology is pretty strong, and so is hatred of communists, socialists and really any scam ideology. The mainstream media is dying; it's being burned away like pavement under the scorching tires of a classic muscle car.

I think the commies failed, thankfully, and pushback is just starting.