So, what do Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, Fort Polk, Fort Lee, Fort Gordon – let’s just save time and say just about every major Army post in America – have in common? That’s right – they are all named after treasonous traitors who helped make the Civil War possible (with no Soldiers or generals, the civil war doesn’t happen – that’s basic science right there. 101 level stuff).
If people want to keep statues of traitors and not change the names of Army installations named for traitors, I figured I should present a list of other idiotic non-sense we should be working toward. It’s easy – just take two things that have a horrible association and slap them together and everything is good as new.
The Timothy McVeigh Federal Building with attached Jared Fogel Daycare
The Jeffery Dahmer Culinary Institute and Laotian Refugee Center
Richard Spencer’s Race Relation Hotline
The Rocky V Tommy Gunn Film Awards for Artistic Achievment in Movies
Bernie Madoff’s Totally Legit Credit Union – member FDIC. Probably.
The New Coke Institute of Great Ideas
A statue of Bill Cosby and three frat bros mixing you a drink
Ok – I think I’ve made my point. I’m sure reasonable people on the internets will now agree and we change the names of all Army bases named for traitors.
(Fort Sam Houston, interestingly enough, not named for a traitor – he actually refused to join the traitors and so was removed from office and he died before the war ended)