Remember Florence

Florence was a center of the Renaissance. It was a haven for humanist thought and was blessed to have wealthy patrons who subsidized the arts and gave us treasures of art and architecture that have lasted to this day.

Eventually, the freedom and beauty were attacked and destroyed by radical fundamentalists like Savonarola who insisted that things return to the earlier benighted ideologies. They burned the books and artworks that reflected the enlightened thinking of this citadel of culture.

We are in the midst of a burning bonfire. Unless we resist, the forces of darkness will be shutting down the advances that free men and women have struggled to achieve for the last two centuries. Don’t let it happen here. Fight back against the new Savonarola.