What a powerful statement. I was interested in service for citizenship, but this does make me think. I am split-minded on this issue.
The lessons from History are teachable moments that are no longer taught. As mentioned elsewhere, just look at the problem with cults of personality in the past. Schools used to teach cautionary tales about such things but now the schools foment such thinking and call it good because statism is good. Too many think their ideas are new and groundbreaking without them ever understanding, or wanting to understand, what worked or failed from the past, and why. Politicians willing to give up our border sovereignty to illegals for votes is so . . . so incredibly and transparently stupid. But they think it'll work this time, even with all the historical lessons out there pointing to a failure of such a policy. Insanity may be the 'doing the same thing over and over' concept, but with these people today it is willful and studious ignorance of the past which is so alarming. When Civics goes out the public school window, is it any wonder we're taking that inexorable slide into oblivion ourselves? You can't have a successful society without that society being aware of itself, its past, good and bad. Now our kids are propagandized with only the bad, like 'the white man conquered a peaceful group of Indians to steal this country'. Really? Funny how no one asks the descendants of those Indians about that 'peaceful' crap. The problem is very much like the recent brou-ha-ha over the Washington Redskins' name. Liberal white guilt claims it is demeaning and insulting to the noble savage. But no one asks the Indians about that. Our Nation honors the warrior spirit of our former enemies in many ways today, one of the better known examples being the naming of military helicopters after Indian tribes. From all I've read, Indians are quite pleased with that tribute to their 'warrior spirit' past, and you can be damned sure that if the situation was reversed, the Indians would NOT be celebrating our defeated 'warrior spirit'. But I'm sure there will some liberal wienie someday protesting that 'insult' to the tribes' memory and our military helicopters will start having names like the
Tofu instead of the
Kiowa. Societal failure is inevitable when the past is taught through the white guilt lens of historical revisionism. How many blacks understand the complex nature of slavery in the States? Or that slavery is as old as mankind, and continues to this day, most notably in the Africa of their heritage? Or that the 3/5 rule for counting slaves for House representation purposes was not done to show how worthless black life was, but rather a way to eventually end slavery itself, gradually ending the power of the slaveholding states to make decisions on the national stage? Now blacks spout the same liberal white guilt gibberish and pass that ignorance down to the younger generation. Any wonder we have the Knockout Game running rampant within the black community without hardly a peep from either the black so-called leaders or guilt ridden white liberals? Changing the past to suit the present is fraught with peril because then everything is a lie, and becomes ensconced in the minds of the citizenry by the repetition of teaching that lie. Remember, Lincoln freed the slaves so he must have been a Democrat. Because the Democrats are so caring about blacks, they pushed the Civil Rights Act only to be stymied again and again by the racist Republicans. When one arrives at that point, one must ask, what does it matter anyway? How does one defeat such entrenched and institutionalized ignorance?
Now we're constantly hearing from the proggies how OwebamaCare is the law of the land and defunding it is just plain ol' mean. But how many are then questioned about slavery being the law of the land once, too? And look how many lives it took to end 'the peculiar institution'. Do they want a repeat of that part of History as well? Sure seems like it to me, but then I understand History and that is why the Government must crush me and my viewpoints. And what better way to do that than to change the past so that a whole generation of school kids grow up incredibly ignorant of our own factual History, thinking I'm the bullshyt artist?