Advice to Progressives on Memorial Day

Vice President Harris has been properly cautioned for a tweet just prior to Memorial Day that said "enjoy the long weekend.

What, you may ask, is wrong with that? Thank you for asking.

The simple answer is this. Memorial Day is not a long weekend. It is the holiday -- as in "holy" day -- on which we make a pathetic effort to make amends for all the young lives uselessly thrown away in the nation's stupid wars.

But we never admit this truth. We cannot; we must not. For, it cannot be that the men and women that gave their lives in America's wars died in vain.

Now, of course, if you are a progressive you think that they all died in vain and it is an offense against social justice. And you feel "silenced, broken, and limited" by the systemic racists that insist that every American should honor the fallen.

Quite so. But here is my practical advice to you moral exemplars in your next mostly peaceful protest against America's wars.

It is that it cannot be that the sons of average American women, the mothers of which you've heard tell, lost their sons in vain.

Yes, I know. They did lose their sons in vain in stupid wars for America's imperialist agenda. And slavery. And colonial domination. And racism. And so on. But do not ever suggest to ordinary American women that their sons are or were mere cannon fodder. They are heroes; they were heroes. Period. Full stop. End of story.

That is the point of Memorial Day, first called Decoration Day for decorating the graves of the fallen in the Civil War, as opposed to Veterans Day. Veterans Day is about celebrating all who served in the nation's wars. Memorial Day is about honoring the fallen.

See, the thing about all women, except wokey upper-class feminists, is that the children that they conceived, bore, and raised are the most important achievement of their lives: really the only achievement of their lives; really the definition of their lives.

So, to suggest that the sons died in vain is the same as to say that the mothers lived in vain, that they were fools ever to get married, ever to conceive children, ever to bear them, ever to raise them. Don't do it, lefties.

By all means blame the racist sexist homophobic politicians. By all means blame the fascist military leaders. By all means blame the capitalist war profiteers. By all means blame the monstrosity of systemic racism. But do not blame the young men that joined the colors and died.

Do not be misled by the upper-class women who have accepted the leftist narrative. Do not be misled by women of "oppressed peoples" that have been carefully taught to hate their homeland. Remember that for the vast majority of ordinary women their children are the light of their lives and cannot have lived in vain.

So, go to a Memorial Day parade and listen to the VFW worthies and the service at the graveyard and the invocations and the prize speeches by student essay-contest-winners. And look around at all the ordinary people in attendance and think about their lives and the meaning of their lives

And think about how those ordinary people are way less privileged than an educated, evolved person like you.

Then remember always to honor the fallen on Memorial Day. Because.