Well, maybe we are exceptionally good at torture…
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I would love for the future you suggest to trump my assertions.
In fact, if the future takes the course you suggest (as opposed to my dystopian portrait), then the PLANET would love for you to trump my assertions.
Debates are one thing. A sane future is another–I don’t live for “verbal victories” 
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They aren’t sneaking anything into history, the Kocks are just competing with history and trying to create an alternative future that turns out different than we did the first time around and in an image that they approve of, want and possibly can afford…
And of course causing emphysema with coal particulates, cancer with heavy metals, and poisoning water sources with fracking is SO “individual responsibility.”
All of which is what they want the government to be small about.
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you mean, like, “dystopian?”
If you think the Supreme Court is bad now, just wait until they are “Ruthless…”
Sort of but really I mean they want our past history and future history to be just like what they are trying to make out daily lives right now.
“It seems that fewer people are making more decisions about the nature of our fundamental rights,…” And even fewer have decided they are entitled to define it for everyone else.
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I do understand your point, but, the old white establishment will have to heed when it becomes a fiscal necessity and as people of less than white heritage become the majority, then the business class will comply. It is the only way societal advances are made.
I had this discussion (about when corporations would shift priorities) with the head of Bayer, in Denmark a few years ago at a conference work group.
He said as much.
Right now, the Koch’s are buying up all they can, education, congress, airwaves but that cannot stand the test of time as blocs are faced with advancing years of those (diminished) arguably, white older generational voting.
Much as the South has been taken hostage by nihilistic religious factions politically, that region also is teetering on demographic changes in Texas and Georgia which, once the ‘browning’ matures, will put the likelihood of a GOP president, out of reach electorally.
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Of course they want to justify slavery. They would prefer that we had never given it up. In the meantime, they just want to reintroduce it bit by bit in the form of no unions, no wage or hours laws, and no minimum wages.
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“Some say that the Declaration’s authors didn’t mean to include everyone when they wrote ‘all men are created equal.’”
Name them.
I’m not a believer myself.Stalin was 74, and even if he didn’t die of natural causes he lived a long, long life.
The John Birchers distort the history of the “founding moment” especially in regard to the U.S. Constitution. The very reason for holding the Constitutional Convention in the first place was because “state’s rights limited government” wasn’t working under the Articles of Confederation. Now, there are many interpretations of what exactly wasn’t working and why (a revolt of elite property and bondholders against excess democracy, anarchy and instability caused by unscrupulous populist agitators, etc.) but what the “founding fathers” brought forth was not a limited government. It was a new more powerful central government with the power to tax in order to raise a revenue and legislate in the public interest and to regulate commerce (both between the states and with other nations). The Constitution made federal laws, court decisions and executive actions superior to those of the states (Art. VI, Clause 2 “The Supremacy Clause”) and the Bill of Rights, which guaranteed basic civil rights, was an afterthought tacked on to satisfy opponents of the document in order to assure ratification. The founders were not libertarians in tri-cornered hats , they were advocates of a stronger central government. Alexander Hamilton wanted a king for crying out loud, before he was talked down from the monarchist ledge. Taken in proper historical context the creation of the U.S. government wasn’t about limited government it was about creating a government with the power to act in the interests “of the people” rather than selected interests or the states.
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Jalus, i whole-heartedly agree with your suggestion. However, boycotting required texts would result in the loss of those teacher’s jobs, thus enabling the school district to hire teachers who’ve also drunk the kool-aid, thus magnifying the problem, exponentially. Unfortunuately, i fear the ONLY way to restore sanity and fact to our nation’s children is to replace members of the local school boards who are reasoned and rationale, and sane. Sadly, this is following the Koch’s very model of gaining control of the country. Start at the bottom, gain control at the lowest level, and work your way up from there. Ultimately, in only a few years, you’ll have bought and paid for the minds of enough levels of government that you control the entire nation. This applies to judges, as well.
The good news–unfortunately–is that almost no one pays attention to social studies until the state test and then they forget everything. Think of the significant knowledge you have of any topic that you can trace back to high school. We work on what he observe in life, a very good college course or a very good book.
(It works across the board–how do you derive the slope of a line?)
Of course they may catch some low-lying fruit, but the competition the Kochs face there isn’t Gordon Wood or Allan Nevins, but Alex Jones or Glenn Beck.
Exactly, THE CONSTITUTION EXPANDED GOVERNMENT from what the then-existing governing document. the Articles of Confederation, provided for.
(sorry for the all caps – just felt that emphasis was needed.)
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Prediction: kids will imbibe the propaganda, come out of school, collide with the real world, learn that a lot of what they were fed in school was political spin and not fact, they’ll rebel and become cynical and bear left, much as the '60s generation did when they found out that “America” wasn’t always that shining city on a hill. Go to it, Kochs. You’ll sow the seeds of your ideology’s own destruction.
Excellent suggestion.
One of my very favorite books. He is about the only “conservative” I respect.
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Pretty much like any conservative belief.
I don’t disagree with you. Merely pointing out that there view on the matter is only partly correct even if you want to spot them something.