By Selwyn Duke

The statues felled by cultural revolutionaries in recent years are like the canary in the coal mine:

If the warning their demise provides goes unheeded, other, bigger targets will also fall.

This is no doubt why commentator David Marcus proposes a solution: Restore those statues to their rightful places and, for a change, reclaim territory in the culture war.

Most Americans don’t trouble much over the statue-removal movement, thinking the matter small potatoes. Yet just as how when “systems fall, so do statues,” as Russia Beyond noted in 2012, statues’ fall can mean your system is soon to follow.

Elizabeth Rogliani, a Venezuelan actress living in the United States, knows this firsthand. “Why do I even worry about some silly little statues coming down? … Why do I care?” she asked rhetorically in a 2020 video. (Note: As with the statues, her video has been taken down.)

“It’s because the last time I didn’t care about this, I was a teenager,” she explained. “I have already lived through this thing … in Venezuela.”

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