There are two kinds of people in the world, the colonizers and the colonized, at least according to the left, which in recent years has labeled all of history's victors the unjust beneficiaries of settler colonialism. This pejorative phrase has cropped up everywhere the left

dominates, the universities, the media, even the government.

Its purpose is to delegitimize every Western country

that the left doesn't like.

America, Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, Israel, and so on.

But the phrase doesn't mean all that much when you consider that every single regime and tribal

society in history was established by settlers and colonizers of one kind or another.

To put it another way, not since Adam in the Garden of Eden has any people sprouted out of the

ground, and in the case of Adam you might recall, he had a little help.

Borders, nations, and regimes have changed for all of history as people have multiplied, expanded,

and moved around.

The aim of the decolonization activists is to return land from the people who currently

possess it to the people who previously possessed it.

But that doesn't solve the problem. It only pushes the problem

one step back in time. In 1980, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the American

government had illegally taken the Black Hills of South Dakota,

the site of Mount Rushmore, from the Lakota Sioux.

The court ordered the government to pay the Lakota the initial offering price of the land

plus interest.

But even the liberal court did not order the U.S. to vacate and give the land back to the Indians.

How could it?

A quarter million Americans live there.

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