In the present *writers’ view, every one of those eleven individuals – each of whom has affixed his or her signature to the governor’s letter, beginning with Gov. Northam himself – has demonstrated their unfitness for public office and should be called upon by Virginia’s citizens to resign. Furthermore, the fact that Ralph Northam, a VMI graduate and former President of the Honor Court, appears to have abandoned time-honored values is troubling, to say the least.*Forrest L. Marion, VMI Class of 1980, with Carmen D. Villani, VMI Class of 1976, Former President of VMI Honor Court
As one pastor in his sixties mentioned recently, “I would have thought VMI [Virginia Military Institute] to be one of the last bastions,” meaning, of course, among those institutions most committed to preserving the best of Western civilization, including the rule of law, freedom of expression and religion, and the traditional values that every generation of Americans took for granted until the 1960s. All this and more is under assault as part of the ongoing sociocultural revolution in our land, one that divides citizens based on race or other identities to the empowering of those seeking political advantage. We witness daily an activism that purports to establish a perverse sameness of outcome (a form of Marxism) irrespective of one’s knowledge, competence, character, or diligence – in reality, it aspires to a shared misery – except, that is, for those whom prodigious, conservative scholar Thomas Sowell refers to as the “anointed” ones at the top of the heap, who, in time, will liquidate (or “cancel” in today’s parlance) those naïve souls whose labors put them there. For any doubters, take a cursory read of the miserable records of Lenin circa 1920 (Soviet Union), Mao circa 1960s (Communist China), and Maurice Bishop circa 1980 (Grenada), whose deceptions, lawlessness, and brutalities harmed, or carried off, countless victims among their own countrymen.[1]
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