You mean you believe the same old stuff we've all been taught for our entire lives. Stuff which exonerates the government's excessive use of power and the bloodshed.
Funny thing is, I keep finding out all these details that they never bothered to teach me in school. Stuff like the Corwin Amendment.
I had never heard of it until a few years ago, yet it seems quite significant. The Government voted to amend the Constitution to keep slavery permanent.
Kinda undermines the claim that they fought the war over slavery. Seems like they were in agreement on that point.
So why didn't they teach us about the Corwin Amendment?
Why didn't they teach us about the war fleet Lincoln sent to attack the Confederates at Charleston?
Why didn't they tell us the South was paying 72% of the taxes, and most of the tax money was spent in the North building Northern industry and infrastructure?
Why did they teach us that "expansion of slavery" was a real possibility, when the truth is it was absolutely impossible?
Why didn't they teach us about all the political prisoners Lincoln took, and that he tried to arrest the Chief Justice of the Supreme court?
Why did they cover up all the bad/embarrassing stuff the government did?
I didn't learn any of this stuff in school. Everything I learned in school showed the government was doing the Lord's work, and driving out evil from our land.
Something i've learned in life, is that when people are lying and covering things up, they aren't the good guys.
Because, as has been shown in the debate on this thread, that is not true (i.e. "a lie").
Something i've learned in life, is that when people are lying and covering things up, they aren't the good guys.
When you find both sides are lying and covering up, you learn there are no "good guys".
"Winners write the history books" is a truism.
The idea one side is all good, and the other side is all bad, is a ridiculous simplification.
I had exactly the same experience. Hell, I graduated with a BA in history from a good university and I was taught NONE of the above. It was only when I started reading for myself years later....and not the course textbooks but earlier generations of historians in Academia and independent scholars outside of Academia that I learned any of the above. I was stunned. I couldn't believe it at first so I cross checked and read and read and read lots of different sources until I realized OH MY GOD....it IS true.
Funny, neither PBS nor the so-called "history" channel ever covers any of the above. They never even mention it. They won't even allow the Sons of Confederate Veterans to run commercials mentioning any of it. LOL! They turn down money just to prevent viewers from being exposed to the truth. Academia is even worse. They refuse to even mention anything but slavery slavery slavery and pretend history is some kind of morality play.
and of course, the federal government is always the "good" guy.