When military, right-wing extremist groups seize power, part of their Method of Operation is to subvert the people that they are oppressing by removing their identity. In the past, right-wing extremist groups have destroyed, art, poetry, music, science, books, and history. Oftentimes, the works destroyed are thousands of years old. Right-wing extremist regimes understand that if they can steal a people's history and culture, then those people have no identity and they can then be dominated.

It happened in NAZI Germany from 1933 onward.

Adolf Hitler, as German chancellor in the early 1930s, opposed modern art as “degenerate” and said that it was a mark of society’s moral decline. His Nazi regime seized radical art pieces from state-owned museums, destroying some while selling others to prepare for war.

It happened in Cambodia in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge regime seized power.

When Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime seized power in 1975, they systematically targeted artists, intellectuals and musicians as part of a brutal campaign to remake the country as a classless agrarian society.

It happened in Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power.

When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan 20 years ago, the group banned music, outlawed human images and idols and blasted away two 1,500-year-old Buddha statues — an act of desecration that shocked the world. Now the Islamists are back in power, and Afghan artists and filmmakers — many of whom flourished during the past two decades — are scrambling to hide, protect or even destroy books, paintings and other works of art.

Now, it's happening in the United States.

Books are being banned and burnt and cultural heritage sites are being destroyed. Art, poetry, music, science, books, and history are under attack by right-wing extremists who want to rob America of her identity and thus dominate her people.