Land Acknowledgments Are Democratic Party’s New Pledge of Allegiance https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/22/land-acknowledgments-are-democratic-partys-new-pledge-allegiance/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGVIyjK0pUHBeyLQuOI3U2GBJbMYobM2B9DOkGPUomt9KAqBvBGVx-regUMf0X6dAcYOCYJl0HBzx0w2Vel5pTItEEQ1LEjKnMG2HudcbWIrD8qV47WQw The Democratic Party has fully embraced the far-left’s ideological framework of America. Democrats released their 2024 party platform this week during the Democratic National Convention. It was a sloppy mess in many places with frequent references to President Joe Biden’s “second term”—21 references by my count. Though as I’ve written previously, we are probably headed for more of the same with Vice President Harris in the White House anyway. The presidency is becoming the ceremonial head of a vast, unaccountable bureaucratic leviathan, after all. The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Donate now The sloppiness of the Democrat platform and the DNC as a whole is certainly noteworthy. But much more important is the ideological drift of the party. In case you didn’t know what the Democratic Party most fervently stands for, the very first thing in its platform was a “land acknowledgment.” A land acknowledgment is a performative ceremony used by institutions under the full sway of the church of wokeness. It essentially lists the various Indian tribes that assumedly passed through the land the group is standing on at the time. It has become the Left’s substitution for the Pledge of Allegiance. The concept is, frankly, absurd. It’s as pointless as walking into your newly purchased home and listing off the names of all the previous owners, renters, visitors, and squatters. The land acknowledgment assumption is that the tribes are gone because of the mean, rapacious United States. Though the actual history is typically far more complicated. For instance, the Black Hills in South Dakota have been occupied by countless tribes, and not just the Lakota. The Lakota “stole” the land from the Cheyanne just a few decades before the United States acquired the region. And there are countless other tribes that could claim time in the Black Hills, too. The Left wants to reduce this all to a morality play about the assumed moral superiority of the tribes and the greediness of the United States. What land acknowledgments represent is less a simple recitation of history and more a statement of faith that you believe the United States, the original Constitution, and all this country was built on are illegitimate. It’s a corollary to the Left’s war on history. The Left wants you to believe that America was built on oppression. It was built on slavery and dispossessing land. In their minds, the ill-gotten fruits of these injustices will be rectified when the country first renounces its past, and second, when resources are allocated to victims.