[ClearCase_guy]

I believe that many people see History as a straight forward field of study. You go to the archives, you research the documents, maybe you can even interview participants. And then you write down what happened, and you're done.

But it's not like that at all.

Causes of the American Civil War?
Armenian Genocide?
Famine in the Ukraine?
Jewish Holocaust?
Japanese war atrocities?
Palestinians in Israel?

Plenty of people have radically different views on these things. And now we seem to be at a point where we need to ask if the American Government is what we think it is. Are we wacky conspiracy theorists who actually think that Obama and Hillary were serving the New World Order and completely subverting the rule of law and the US Constitution? Is that what the history books will show?

The answer is: it depends.

[BenLurkin]

Causes of the American Civil War War Between the States?

Fixed it.

[DiogenesLamp]

Plenty of people have radically different views on these things. And now we seem to be at a point where we need to ask if the American Government is what we think it is. Are we wacky conspiracy theorists who actually think that Obama and Hillary were serving the New World Order and completely subverting the rule of law and the US Constitution? Is that what the history books will show?

I hear you. Over the last three years, my understanding of why the nation fought the civil war, and who has been running things ever since has radically changed, and it was changed because of facts which I did not previously know had come to light.

I know know more about it than I ever knew before, and it makes the history a lot uglier than I had been led to believe most of my life.

Basically the Civil War was fought to benefit New York and the wealthy and powerful of that region, and they have been running the nation through power and influence in Washington DC ever since. The "establishment" is basically the lap dogs of these people for whom the civil war was fought, and who have acquired and maintained their power as a consequence of it.

New York and the "elite" run the nation. That's why most of the media corporations are headquartered there. It's to keep their hold on power by controlling what the public hears.

[tet68]

Are we wacky conspiracy theorists who actually think that Obama and Hillary were serving the New World Order and completely subverting the rule of law and the US Constitution? Is that what the history books will show?

I don’t know about the history books but I was there
to see it happen.