Happy Columbus Day

We should wish each other a happy Columbus Day, and gives the leftists’ “indigenous people’s day” the derisive horse laugh it deserves.  It does not matter that there were other explorers such as Cabot and Hudson who did important things, or that the Vikings found the New World centuries before 1492. It does not matter that the Spaniards’ behavior in the areas of Latin America they conquered and colonized was at best bad and often utterly barbarous (though still  usually  some  improvement over savagery of the Aztecs and others).  It does not matter that the English and Dutch settlements  in  what would become the United States  came over a century after Columbus’s voyages and were made  by people who were enemies of Spanish empire Columbus served.

For in the context of the  American holiday, Columbus is a symbol of daring, bold exploration,  the value of Western Civilization, and the chain of events leading to the creation of the United States. That is what Columbus Day honors. That explains why the leftists despise it, and why the rest of us can celebrate it happily.