There’s a related problem, with absolutely massive practical consequences.
Since the anti-fact wingnuts took over the textbooks and curricula in the Texas school system, Texas – and not JUST Texas, but a whackjob of continguous and other red states, including Oklahoma, Arkansas, Nebraska, Kanses, Alabama and Mississippi – has been teaching their kids, and examining, GRADING, promoting and demoting them, based on Texas-approved wingnut views. Kids who have been graded on the bizarro world view of history and biology in particular, but also physics, chemistry and literature, and from that are figuring on admission to college, even qualifying for scholarships, are going to find themselves woefully mis-educated for the college board entrance exams, and thus denied, in some instances scholarships, but in many many more cases entrance into a whole range of colleges and universities that rely on the CB system to determine entrance eligibility.
And for entrance into out-of-state schools on the same standards? It’ll be worse. Not thousands, at least tens of thousands of kids will find their plans for higher education turned worthless – and who’re they gonna blame? Who’s gonna fill the future Republican state committees in these states? Who’s gonna run for state office and Congress with hog testicles in one hand and a useless high school diploma in the other?
I would fail that test. I can’t even guess the answers to most questions. Kids today are a lot smarter than I am. Even the example question in the instructions asking what Chicago is, doesn’t accept my answer: a band!
the colonists are portrayed as bigots who developed ‘a rigid racial hierarchy’ that was in turn derived from ‘a strong belief in British racial and cultural superiority,’" the letter reads. “The new Framework continues its theme of oppression and conflict by reinterpreting Manifest Destiny from a belief that America had a mission to spread democracy and new technologies across the continent to something that ‘was built on a belief in white racial superiority and a sense of American cultural superiority.’”
The truth is, the colonists were ethnocentric. Not much has changed in that respect, extending directly to far-right jingoism expressed grotesquely through Fox News and the Tea Party in current times. We are an arrogant, paranoid species, with few exceptions.
This begs the question. Has the ‘libertarian moment’ finally arrived? Hopefully the New York Times or one of the geniuses at Reason magazine can look into it for us.
Most conservatives have a childlike relationship with the country: Nothing bad ever happened. The founding Fathers were god-sent pure hearted, sinless angels, here to guide the nation. Blacks were happy being slaves and the Indians put themselves in reservations, making way for the good and benevolent white settlers to homestead wherever they wanted. Such a bunch of children, looking at the best daddy in the entire whole world.
Yes, the GOP are experts on history. It is not important to understand true history but some sugar coated version of it. History is made of people, they do things for non altruistic reasons much of the time. Deal with it.
Why would you focus on military commanders other than big ones? And what were the other reasons for settling in the 1700’s? There were more than one, I am sure the test mentions that. Apparently it just does not focus on spreading liberty.
Or how about all of those times those in power took liberty from others. Those that were different than them.
I always thought it was Reagan who started the odd ‘city on the hill’ thing, but according to Wiki, it is biblical (Matthew 5:14, “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.”), and became popular with American politicians starting with Kennedy, then Reagan, then others.
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