We are witnessing the fruition of decades of progressive mal-education and indoctrination. Children are schooled to believe the United States is an oppressor nation and everyone is a victim. Our history has become a laundry list of one soiled event after another. According to liberals, our country has no redeeming qualities. Howard Zinn’s, “A People’s History of the United States” is a perfect example of what I’m talking about.
I ask, can a nation survive an onslaught of self-loathing of this magnitude? Only a successful civilization as ours could infantilize its citizenry. I don’t know how else to explain it. We have adults acting like spoiled children. But here we are tearing down statues and demanding “free stuff” without any thoughts to the consequences of our actions.
I was rummaging around a used book store in Chattanooga, TN when I stumbled upon a paperback entitled, “The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order.” This is exactly what I was looking for. I needed to find a bridge from the Progressive Era to the Age of the Teat Squawkers and this was it. After reading it, come to find out, we have not changed that much in a hundred years.. It was an amazing revelation.
Yes, we’ve had huge technological advances, but so did our progenitors at the turn of the century and they were trying to deal with the disruptions of modernity as we. Many jobs were rendered obsolete and workers were displaced; this was a huge concern, but they dealt with it.
Right down the line, every concern we have today was argued a century ago. Issues such as indoctrination in our schools, the breakdown of the family and morality, the size and scope of the federal government, the influence of big media, immigration, and what it means to be an American; all of these issues were fervently debated back then as they are today.
The only difference between the citizens of 21st century America and early 20th century America is experience. They were forging a new system of governance without knowing the consequence. We have the benefit of a hundred years of failures; yet, we refuse to learn from their mistakes.
Today, we are witnessing one of the biggest smear campaigns in American history, President Donald Trump has called out the media for its bias and propaganda. This daily attack by a rabid media is having a detrimental effect on his presidency. The exact same scenario happened to President Herbert Hoover.
Hoover was a progressive and once media darling. They lauded him as the “Great Humanitarian” until he tried to control the narrative by managing the news. Big media didn’t appreciate that, now he is maligned as one of the most despised public figures in American history. He created the concept of public-private cooperation; yet, you would think this a modern day invention, probably because today’s progressives don’t want to acknowledge the failures of federal government participation and sponsored cartels. Can anyone say, Obamacare?
Americans could learn a lot from history, if our schools would teach it.
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