If you don't know history, this could happen to you.

[shockey80]

If you don't know history, someone will make it up for you. If it sounds good to you, you may believe it.

If you don't know the history of immigration, you may end up dressing like Rambo, patrolling the border with an assault rifle hunting people like their rabid dogs.

If you don't know the history of African Americans, you may end up shaving your head and tattooing a swastika on your forehead. You may end up wearing a white hood dunce cap over your head.

If you don't know the history of the civil war, you may end up walking around with a flag that was created by traitors, racists and losers.

If you don't know the history of the labor movement, you may end up like the women at the triangle shirtwaist factory, dead.

If you don't know history, you may elect someone who is mentally ill, a textbook narcissist, a propagandist, who is capable of killing millions of people.

If you don't know history, you may vote over and over again for people and ideas that hurt you over and over again.

History is the Great Teacher. Not knowing history can kill you. At the very least it will turn you into a fool.

[KY Southern Dem]

1. It doesn't repeat, but it rhymes...

And it's alarming how much of the American populace is ignorant and/or ill-informed about history.

[shockey80]

2. Your 1st post, welcome to DU.

[global1]

4. I Thought I Knew History.....

It was one of my favorite subjects in grammar school and high school. I got good grades in History which - to me - made me think that I really knew History.

Now I feel ignorant and ill-informed because I learned the History that was taught to me at the time.

How was I to know that what they were teaching was based on an interpretation that what the powers that be at the time wanted me to learn.

Ain't that a kick in the pants and a rude awakening?

[shockey80]

8. So true, I was the same way.

It was after school I started to educate myself about history. I read books, it's not hard. After forty years of educating myself about history I completely understand I still have a lot more to learn. There is so much to learn when it comes to history.

The more you learn about history the better off you are. You gain wisdom.

[smirkymonkey]

3. K&R

[cyclonefence]

5. Wish I could "like" this a thousand times

I know Civics is no longer taught; is the same true of American History?

[safeinOhio]

6. Spot on.

[sanatanadharma]

7. Not knowing is a smaller problem than denying that there is something to be known.

Too many of the ignorant refuse to accept that others have history and contributions and importance to "now".

Too many won't modify their 'certainty' to conform to 'veracity'.

Subjectivity elevated above objectivity spawns stupidity.