Making Columbus Great Again

DONALD TRUMP evidently intends to make America great again,like it used to be before civil rights, feminism, and gay rights, and political correctness, partly by making Christopher Columbus great again. That may not be all it takes, but, well, at least its a start. Everybody has probably noticed that beneath a crushing wave of progressive political correctness and more accurate and honest historical awareness among the teeming masses, Columbus has been and is still being vanquished to the proverbial historical dust bin, and replaced with "Indigenous Americans Day". On his first voyage, Columbus offered a fortune to whoer sighted land first. When a sailor did so, our boy, our icon regretfully informed that he himself had seen land a few minutes before. Columbus kept a fascinating journal. At one point he seemed to indicate that his ships were being followed by bright submerged lights. UFOs? When they dropped anchor in the Dominican Republic, (Hispanola), he wrote something like: "We dropped anchor and paddled to shore. We were immediately greeted by throngs of naked natives, wearing only gold jewelry. They were beautiful, healthy, happy people. They greeted us warmly, and were most friendly. They offered us everything and would have given us anything. They are going to make excellent slaves." For real. What Columbus did was torture and murder millions of them, in order to steal their gold and control them, and gave them European diseases to boot. Throughout American history, since July 4, 1776 if not before, we Americans have created fictional anrrative to replace our actual history as a nation, and replaced actual history with this fantasy, a very pleasant fantasy intended to indoctrinate American children, and hence American adults, with devout patriotism, by ay means necessary. Its called "hagiography". Over the patfew decades, beginning within the American historical profession and spreading to the teaching profession there has been a sort of awakening, an awareness of the fundamental dishonesty of the traditional narrative, and a belief in the utter necessity of teaching history, not hagiography. Accurate, honest American history if often very ugly and sad. It is muh much more than a glorious telling of a glorious tale of a shining city on a hill, as Reagan liked to say. Nowadays in public schools there is more effort being mae to learn the lessons of history, rather than ignore them as before, and repeating them. Christopher Columbus was, above all else, a monster and a mass murderer,and when we finally mustered the courage and integrity to start aknowledging that,the backlash began among conservatives, who, in keeping with the basic nature of conservatism, prefer tradition and hagiography to reality. All across Americas fruited plain mobs of conservatives are fighting hared to bring back hagiography, to downplay the uglier side of their nation's history, adn place full emphasis on only the positive and glorious. Donald Trump, his supporters in full denial of his pervasive criminality, patriotically reinstates Christopher Columbus as a hero, a great and brave explorer, the discoverer of America, or, at least the Dominican Republic. Why not? Making America great again means remaking it the way it used to be, in all ways, when minorites were grateful for their place in the corner out of sight, men were men, and America was a white, straight, Christian nation, and Columbus was great.