Dump “Presidents’ Day” – Bring Back Washington’s Birthday!
As a preliminary matter, did you know that “Washington’s Birthday” never really left – that it is still the official name of today’s holiday?
I didn’t, until I started researching this piece (intending to advocate changing the official name back to “Washington’s Birthday”).
It’s true; this as described by an official U.S. Government website:
“[In 1971] the third Monday in February became the date on which Washington's Birthday is celebrated. Some reformers had wanted to change the name of the holiday as well to Presidents' Day, in honor of both Lincoln and Washington, but that proposal was rejected by Congress and the holiday remained officially Washington's Birthday. While the name change has never been authorized by Congress, it has gained a strong hold on the public consciousness to honor all U.S. Presidents, and is generally used on calendars, in advertising, and even by many government agencies.”
The Britannica website offers a similar recounting, and both attribute the “President’s Day” encroachment to convenience and retailers over the years using it in their holiday sales advertising.
When first inspired to write this piece, I was assuming that the change was part of the Cultural Marxists’ “long march through our institutions.” Space doesn’t permit a thorough examination of that here. Suffice it to say that Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci and his spiritual successors over the decades (such as the Frankfurt School and Saul Alinsky and his acolytes Hillary Clinton and B. Hussein Obama) have sought to subvert our country from within – slowly and stealthily, and accomplish “fundamentally transforming” this country into a Marxist model, “without firing a shot.”
That included – and still includes – the adoption of Maoist Cultural Revolution techniques “with American characteristics.” A central tenet of the Cultural Revolution in China was eliminating “the four olds”:
The CCP’s Cultural Revolution began in 1966, starting a decadelong campaign to eradicate the “four olds” (old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas). It was soon matched with the fierce counterculture movement in the United States and other anti-traditional movements in other parts of the world. All these were global events that unfolded in line with the communist specter’s aim of destroying tradition and bringing about humanity’s moral collapse. – The Epoch Times
This (at least in part) explains the dynamic we witnessed with the 2020 BLM & Antifa riots, and their accompanying removal of statues of our Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln by the useful idiots rampaging under the BLM and/or Antifa banners.
While the 1968 Congress that voted to alter the celebration date of Washington’s Birthday was presumably not acting in the spirit of Cultural Marxism, the net effect these decades later very much serves to advance that Satanically-evil agenda.
I’m old enough to remember “Washington’s Birthday” and the stories of his character, integrity and bravery – as the embodiment of our American Founding and its principles, and characteristics to embrace and abide by.
That is why he was typically referred to as “The Father of Our Country.” (Typical then. Memory-holed now.)
It’s long past time that “Washington’s Birthday” be restored to its rightful place as the universally accepted and used title for that holiday.
And, may I suggest that “Lincoln’s Birthday” now be considered worthy of its own federal holiday.
Accompanying that — ATTENTION: Kari Lake — as approved and funded PSA’s (public service announcements) for mass-distribution on TV and radio / podcasts, should we not we again celebrate our Founding Fathers, our Founding overall (including our Christian roots) — and perhaps legal immigrants describing how and why they came here, and about how they feel blessed to “be American” (and not some intentionally divisive category of race, gender, national origin, ad infinitum).
With all that said, is it premature to start discussing Ronald Reagan’s birthday and, perhaps, Donald Trump’s birthday?