The average Americans knowledge of US history is pretty slanted [View all]
Children are endoctrinated in school to believe a very patriotic version of US history. The US is an amazing place and there’s plenty to be proud of but the numb nuts who loudly chant “USA, USA” and talk constantly about the second amendment, ignoring especially the other nine in the Bill of Rights really annoy me.
People today have grown up in world dominated by the US and somehow assume it’s our birth right and always will be and should be the case. Lots of periods of US history are glossed over in the simplistic narrative. Like that only a minority of people supported the revolution, I’ve read about 17%. I think most citizens today who support Trump would have lined up behind the British king. Or that there was a great deal of support for Nazi Germany prior to the war and even after Pearl Harbour a lot of resistance to our becoming embroiled in WWII. Lots of capitalist types acted patriotically but many have used wars to cynically get rich.
Don’t know where I’m going with all this. I guess maybe plugging for freedom of the press, open mindedness, and decent education. How many of the current crop of patriotic Americans could pass a US citizenship test? Not sure I could without studying first and I’m fairly well read. I remember a guy who used to run the parking lot at work. He was from Somali. The day he passed his citizenship test he was all aglow and smiling from ear to ear. Brought a tear to my eye to see.
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