Like a lot of campus staff meetings, the DNC 2024 platform begins with a “land acknowledgement” which is to say a rejection of the existence of the United States.

Land acknowledgements were pioneered by ‘decolonization’ activists as a gradual process for normalizing the destruction of the United States.

A land acknowledgement asserts that a particular part of the United States is really Indian territory and that its existence is illegitimate.

And, in a major sea change, the DNC 2024 platform begins with a land acknowledgement rejecting the American presence in Chicago.

The Democratic National Committee wishes to acknowledge that we gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded through many centuries by the ancestors and descendants of Tribal Nations who have been here since time immemorial. We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands. We pay our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals.

First of all this is sad ahistorical nonsense.

Indians migrated to this land the way that people did everywhere else. The Indians crossed the Bering Strait to come here just like the Europeans crossed the Atlantic ocean to do so. They did not “protect” the lands, waters and animals, they hunted, fished, sometimes to extinction entire groups of animals and fish, within their capacity. They were not some sort of magical noble savages, but people like us.

But the real core is the DNC’s assertion that ” our country was built on Indigenous homelands”.

This is the equivalent of the 1619 Project. It asserts that America was illegitimately built and must therefore be eventually dismantled.

Rather than American exceptionalism, this is American deconstructionism. It’s a call for nothing less than the destruction of America.