Symbols are key battlefields where the Culture War is being fought.
This is why the Left is so eager to tear down the Confederate flag from atop South Carolina's capitol. The Left wants old edifices bulldozed, and the public square razed and leveled, so that the grand new Temple of All-Powerful Government can replace all that stood here before. All-Powerful Government is a jealous god that permits no other deity to compete with it, and no version of history or values to be honored except its own. All such reminders must be erased from human memory. But get ready for a new line of attack on the Confederate flag and many, many other symbols of American history, heritage, and faith.