journals.democraticunderground.com — While Jonathan Turley and many others are focused right now on the crimes of the Bush administration, as well they should be, we should also recognize that this pattern is nothing new. The powers that be have been sanitizing U.S. history since its inception.
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counterspinMar 15, 2009
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paintgrlMar 15, 2009
FTA: The New Deal was so successful that it lasted for several decades, during which median family income rose steadily (in 2005 dollars) from $22,499 in 1947 to more than double that, $47,173 by 1980. This period has thus been referred to by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman as the “greatest sustained economic boom in U.S. history” – a boom that produced a large and vibrant middle class in our country for the first time. Remember this.
thetaoofbillMar 15, 2009
That's probably because you're uneducated in history.. No offense but anyone who studies American history in greater detail than your average high school text book knows about these events
frousfroudMar 15, 2009
Haha that's pretty funny. If you want to learn real history read up on it yourself. AP US history is hardly a large step forward from a regular class.
Closed AccountMar 15, 2009
While all of these events happened, and most people are too stupid to know about them, there does need to be one correction made: WWII got everyone out of the Great Depression for good. That's what wars do. They stimulate the economy of the winners.
rrouseMar 15, 2009
That's why it's called his-story and the real-story.
thetaoofbillMar 15, 2009
Well obviously the same holds true with any subject. If you want to learn more about a subject then do your own research. But AP American History is a very good history course.I failed regular history in high school twice because I was so bored with the material. My consoler told me it would be a good idea to take the slow history course. But I knew I wasn't slow so I said screw that and had him sign me up for AP American History. It was one of the best choices I ever made. History is so much more interesting when you learn about America's skeletons. Like the mentioned Filipino war in this article. Not to many people even know we had a war with the Filipinos. There is a good reason for it. It was one of our least civilized wars. There was an incredible amount of civilian deaths. Our generals were sick of trying to distinguish civilian from soldier and they won through the only way they possibly could win in Guerrilla warfare. They ordered the soldiers to go out and kill everyone who looked over the age of 10 years old. This is just one of the many skeletons you learn about in AP history. There are other things like Christopher Columbus's Caribbean Genocide (which by the way, genocide doesn't sound so bad when you put Caribbean in front of it.). Or you learn in great detail about our horrible relationship with the native Americans throughout our early history. It's definitely a class worth taking. Of course you can't learn everything in a year so there is definitely more out there to research but at least AP history doesn't flat out lie to you like regular courses. This is because most of the assignments require you to read actual documents from the time and read about real conversations that took place from important people during those times. It's hard to lie when you have the facts right in front of you.