1.History, you say. The past, written, observed, and agreed to by all.
Nay, nay. Not so.
According to Google, a fact is a thing that is known or proved to be true.
But the individuals who provide said ‘facts’ are human beings, like any other, and covered by this injunction: A perennial mistake that folks make is awarding an undeserved objectivity, trustworthiness and/or knowledge.
Nowhere is this more evident that that awarded to politicians, economists, bureaucrats, and weathermen. But awarding same to those nominally known as ‘scientists’ is surely a close second. Biases, preferences, politics and credit card debt all enter ‘scientist’s’ claims as do they any average citizen.
The mistake most make is imputing an honor and knowledge to celebrities which is undeserved.
And the same applies to “historians.”
2…Historians provide the support for the current totalitarians.
”ON MARCH 2, 2021, President Joe Biden held a secret after-noon meeting with liberal historians in the East Room of the White House. The president and the invited scholars sat around a long table. Opening a black-covered notebook, Biden jotted down thoughts as the historians told him who, among Biden’s White House predecessors, they most admired and why.
No conservative historians were present.
3. Why does it matter if a historian is liberal or conservative? Aren’t historical facts simply a matter of record? Do the political leanings of a historian have any impact on his or her view of history? They certainly do. When historians rank the best and worst presidents, both liberals and conservatives generally agree that the top two presidents of all time were Washington and Lincoln. Washington invented the presidency as we know it today. Lincoln used the power of the presidency to hold the Union together. But beyond Washington and Lincoln, liberal historians and conservative historians divide sharply on their views of presidents and the presidency.
4. Liberal historians tend to favor presidents like Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Why? Because they all favor constructed imperial presidencies that expanded the intrusive role of “Big Government” in our lives. Never mind that Teddy Roosevelt was an interventionist and an imperialist, that Woodrow Wilson imposed segregation on a racially integrated U.S. military and expanded federal police powers, or that FDR’s New Deal programs delayed America’s recovery from the Great Depression.
Liberal historians love presidents who make Big Government even bigger. Conservative historians prefer presidents like Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan—presidents who reduced the size of government, who cut taxes and cut spending, and who, by doing so, expanded individual freedom and prosperity. And that’s why no conservative historians were invited that day.”
Sean Spicer, “Radical Nation”
5. Which sort of historian’s ‘facts’ do you suppose end up in the curriculum of government school? And, do you suppose the little captives in government school had the desire or ability to question why they were being taught only one view of history?
Now you understand why so many government school grads vote Liberal/Democrat.
Nay, nay. Not so.
According to Google, a fact is a thing that is known or proved to be true.
But the individuals who provide said ‘facts’ are human beings, like any other, and covered by this injunction: A perennial mistake that folks make is awarding an undeserved objectivity, trustworthiness and/or knowledge.
Nowhere is this more evident that that awarded to politicians, economists, bureaucrats, and weathermen. But awarding same to those nominally known as ‘scientists’ is surely a close second. Biases, preferences, politics and credit card debt all enter ‘scientist’s’ claims as do they any average citizen.
The mistake most make is imputing an honor and knowledge to celebrities which is undeserved.
And the same applies to “historians.”
2…Historians provide the support for the current totalitarians.
”ON MARCH 2, 2021, President Joe Biden held a secret after-noon meeting with liberal historians in the East Room of the White House. The president and the invited scholars sat around a long table. Opening a black-covered notebook, Biden jotted down thoughts as the historians told him who, among Biden’s White House predecessors, they most admired and why.
No conservative historians were present.
3. Why does it matter if a historian is liberal or conservative? Aren’t historical facts simply a matter of record? Do the political leanings of a historian have any impact on his or her view of history? They certainly do. When historians rank the best and worst presidents, both liberals and conservatives generally agree that the top two presidents of all time were Washington and Lincoln. Washington invented the presidency as we know it today. Lincoln used the power of the presidency to hold the Union together. But beyond Washington and Lincoln, liberal historians and conservative historians divide sharply on their views of presidents and the presidency.
4. Liberal historians tend to favor presidents like Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Why? Because they all favor constructed imperial presidencies that expanded the intrusive role of “Big Government” in our lives. Never mind that Teddy Roosevelt was an interventionist and an imperialist, that Woodrow Wilson imposed segregation on a racially integrated U.S. military and expanded federal police powers, or that FDR’s New Deal programs delayed America’s recovery from the Great Depression.
Liberal historians love presidents who make Big Government even bigger. Conservative historians prefer presidents like Calvin Coolidge and Ronald Reagan—presidents who reduced the size of government, who cut taxes and cut spending, and who, by doing so, expanded individual freedom and prosperity. And that’s why no conservative historians were invited that day.”
Sean Spicer, “Radical Nation”
5. Which sort of historian’s ‘facts’ do you suppose end up in the curriculum of government school? And, do you suppose the little captives in government school had the desire or ability to question why they were being taught only one view of history?
Now you understand why so many government school grads vote Liberal/Democrat.
