By taking down the portraits of former Speakers of the House who joined the Confederacy Nancy Pelosi has now become a character in George Orwell’s 1984 whose job it was to remove any mention or photos of anyone who the party declared a non-person. This was a way the Party and Big Brother controlled and rewrote history. Rather then trying to cover up history we should teach it and learn from the mistakes. What’s scary about what she is doing is she’s attempting to repeat history where a small number of slave holders ruled their states and started a war to maintain it. Now Nancy wants to control what history we’re allowed to know. Anyone associated with slavery should become a non-person instead we should know their history warts and all. Why stop with Washington and Jefferson how about Woodrow Wilson who was a racist, FDR who illegally interred Japanese Americans, Lyndon Johnson who was a segregationist when he was a Congressman and only changed to enhance his chances to become President and then there was JFK who was a misogynist. When were done the only perfect people will remain which means we’ll have no history.