Francis Fukuyama, in his provocative book “The End of History” published in 1992, declared that the demise of communism and the disappearance of the Soviet Union had resulted in the victory of liberal democracy and capitalism. There were, he claimed, no more challengers. Security and freedom have been achieved, and consequently history had ended, implying that America had reached some form of historical or political utopia.

When I read about the Charlottesville Unite the Right bloody protest march last month opposing the removal of the Statue of Civil War General Robert E, Lee from Emancipation Park and then days later read about the beheading of a statue of Christopher Columbus by vandals in New York, I began to wonder which symbols of America’s past would fall next: Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Abraham Lincloln? 

It seems that some lunatic fringes of the American public were trying to make Fukuyama's prediction literally come true, but as far as I’m concerned this was not a sign of movement toward some form of political historical utopia as Fukuyama foresaw but rather in the opposite direction towards chaos,  nihilism and denial of our nation’s roots.