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I’ve found in my early life late 70s to early 90s that anywhere in the world where the British colonized is better off than anyone else by and large and especially when compared to other colonizers.

Irish Catholic freepers of course bristle.

I’m Irish too.....the other kind lol

The six counties where abortion is almost non existent btw

Only 15 allowed last year for life of mother

Isn’t that weird that Ulster still forbids abortion yet The Republic of doesn’t

The British and Dutch seemed most benevolent

French if they hadn’t lost Saint Domingue would be top tier too

Spanish and Portuguese much more harsh

If pressed Dinesh has conceded pretty much the same thing in interviews despite his early writings lamenting the discrimination his father experienced

I think as a NeoCon he kind of goes with what he thinks makes him popular

Believe it or not long ago he defended southern slaveowners as treating slaves better than the Brits and Brahmins did lower caste servants in India

Now he’s part of this NRO position that Democrats were always bad and GOP always good and context and historicaL perspective is irrelevant which is stupid to me

It’s a short path from Jackson bashing to doing the same to Jefferson and Washington and Madison etc

I’ve seen Jefferson disparaged here by this ilk

I’m glad we were founded by the Brits more than anyone else even though where I grew up it was Spanish French Spanish English American Confederate and American with Indians thrown in...Choctaw type not Tandoori

I think it to be a basic step in understanding the priorities & values of the Founding Fathers—as distinguished from the vast spectrum of philosophic rationalizations behind most of the earth's political movements--that in the Founders' case, theory followed and was clearly based upon actual experience. We are in great danger losing the ideological war, when we fail to effectively teach each generation a detailed history of settler experiences (1607 to 1776).

Not having followed his career, I have no idea whether the subject of this thread appreciates the point, or not. But the fact is, that understanding makes it possible to reach many of the vast pool of those who are not really ideologically driven--i.e., the majority of the population.

America: Based On Experience & Reason

wardaddy: "Now he’s part of this NRO position that Democrats were always bad and GOP always good and context and historicaL perspective is irrelevant which is stupid to me."

Naw, you're missing the point, and it's an important one: Democrats and their allies are working furiously to rewrite history, turning Confederates into conservative Republicans and making Lincoln's northerners into liberal Democrats.
That's what Tim Russert's color change in 2000 of Republicans from Blue to Red was all about, just one small piece of the bigger puzzle.

What D'Souza is doing is standing up against the Big Lie, saying, no, wait a minute, facts matter, the truth matters and the truth is that Democrats today are basically the same as they've always been.
D'Souza lays out the history of how we got from then to now, and how today's Democrat insanity well reflects that of Democrats in the past.

I'd hate to think that some our Southerners would prefer to accept Democrat lies to the truth about them.