Did you ever wonder why they are called ditto heads? It is because they can't critically think for themselves. Poor poor lemmings of an angry white man who is seeing his world view collapse around him.
Nobody has done more to destroy our future than Rush. Children do not want to read a book written by a gasbag. Children deserve better than lies and demagoguery
Have you read the book and are you ready to point out the "lies and demagoguery" you seem certain lie within?
First, I have a degree in history (Minor Cal Poly) , second TIME TRAVEL AND A TALKING HORSE? lol
Pilgrims and Puritans are not interchangeable.
As Rush sees it,The true story of Thanksgiving is how socialism failed.
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Right Wing Continues to Push Socialist Pilgrims Myth
Despite a comprehensive repudiation by historians of the belief that the original Pilgrims were socialists who only began to succeed and prosper once they turned to capitalism, on this Thanksgiving conservative leaders and writers continue to spread the urban legend that the settlers were almost doomed by their socialist-ways.
Some background: according to real historians, the Pilgrims held their land in common in the interest of realizing a profit sooner, and was only intended for the short term; historians say the Pilgrims were more like shareholders in an early corporation than subjects of socialism. But the settlers, who came from different part of England, spoke different dialects and had different methods of farming, and looked upon each other with great wariness. Because of such difficulties, the colony scrapped the land arrangements in 1623, yet the colony held the first Thanksgiving in 1621 and the original arrangement did not produce famine.
But that hasnt stopped the Right from propagating the myth that the failures of socialism forced them to embrace capitalism
Right Wing Continues to Push ?Socialist Pilgrims? Myth | Right Wing Watch
Leave aside the question of whether this country is on the march to socialism (conservatives say yes, and blame the Democrats). What does the record say?
Historians say that the settlers in Plymouth, and their supporters in England, did indeed agree to hold their property in common William Bradford, the governor, referred to it in his writings as the common course. But the plan was in the interest of realizing a profit sooner, and was only intended for the short term; historians say the Pilgrims were more like shareholders in an early corporation than subjects of socialism.
It was directed ultimately to private profit, said Richard Pickering, a historian of early America and the deputy director of Plimoth Plantation, a museum devoted to keeping the Pilgrims story alive.
The arrangement did not produce famine. If it had, Bradford would not have declared the three days of sport and feasting in 1621 that became known as the first Thanksgiving. The celebration would never have happened if the harvest was going to be less than enough to get them by, Mr. Pickering said. They would have saved it and rationed it to get by.
The competing versions of the story note Bradfords writings about confusion and discontent and accusations of laziness among the colonists. But Mr. Pickering said this grumbling had more to do with the fact that the Plymouth colony was bringing together settlers from all over England, at a time when most people never moved more than 10 miles from home. They spoke different dialects and had different methods of farming, and looked upon each other with great wariness.
One mans laziness is another mans industry, based on the agricultural methods theyve learned as young people, he said.
Bradford did get rid of the common course but it was in 1623, after the first Thanksgiving, and not because the system wasnt working. The Pilgrims just didnt like it. In the accounts of colonists, Mr. Pickering said, there was griping and groaning.
Bachelors didnt want to feed the wives of married men, and women dont want to do the laundry of the bachelors, he said.
The real reason agriculture became more profitable over the years, Mr. Pickering said, is that the Pilgrims were getting better at farming crops like corn that had been unknown to them in England.
As for Jamestown, there was famine. But historians dispute the characterization of the colony as a collectivist society. To call it socialism is wildly inaccurate, said Karen Ordahl Kupperman, a historian at New York University and the author of The Jamestown Project.
It was a contracted company, and everybody worked for the company. I mean, is Halliburton a socialist scheme?
The widespread deaths resulted mostly from malaria. Tree ring studies suggest that the settlement was also plagued by drought.
But the biggest problem, Professor Kupperman said, was the lack of planning. The Virginia settlers came to the New World thinking that they could find gold or a route to the Pacific Ocean via the Chesapeake Bay, and make a quick buck by setting up a trading station like others were establishing in the East Indies.
It was just wishful thinking, she said, a failure to recognize that these things are really, really difficult.
The Tea Partys take on Thanksgiving may have its roots in the cold war.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/weekinreview/21zernike.html?pagewanted=all
