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Absolutely! Hahahahaha, spot on...I was trying to remember the acronym for those kinds of women, something about white, college educated, liberal females that are the bane of this country.

George Orwell mentioned these kinds of women in his famous work "1984" where he described them as such:

"...Winston had disliked her from the very first moment of seeing her. He knew the reason. It was because of the atmosphere of hockey−fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean−mindedness which she managed to carry about with her. He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy..."

Orwell was (and is) labeled as a misogynist, but it is hard to argue with his characterization, especially when you see them on the front lines of the BLM hoax and the Palestinian support. They are the most ideological, fervent, and...ignorant.

I had to laugh at the inclusion of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in this.

Like many, I knew about it from my schooling (who didn't, back in the day) but they never went into great depth.

I learned a good deal of detail from Stephen Ambrose's book "Undaunted Courage" where two things have stayed in my memory all these years.

One, was the encounters they first had with Grizzly Bears as they left the lands of the Eastern United States behind.

Those bears they encountered must have been massive and quite aggressive, being used to having their way with puny humans. I cannot imagine what it must have been like for Indians who hunted them with bows and lances. They must have learned to avoid them at all costs, and only to hunt them when the necessity was on them.

So I laugh when I think of Lewis and Clark, arriving on the scene and thinking these massive and aggressive creatures were somehow like the bears they had hunted out East, and when told by the Indians to leave them be, because they were extremely dangerous and hard to kill, were quite arrogant saying basically "Leave this to us. We have our guns. We are better equipped to handle these things than you Indians are."

I recall that when they did encounter them, they had something like ten men, armed with muskets, firing into a single grizzly in the middle of a creek, and then having to throw down their weapons and flee for their lives because the fearsome thing just wouldn't die! If my memory serves me correctly, one of them drew a picture of the encounter, showing a grizzly, seeming to be 20 feet high standing on its hind legs, with a ring of men all around it firing into it!

The other thing that stuck in my mind was when they arrived out West and decided to take their European-style boats down the Columbia River, which was far wilder then than even it is today.

One can easily see the Indians looking on in amazement at the white settlers and their boats they intended to take down that wild river that even experienced Indians assiduously avoided. When the time came to shove off into the white water, the banks on both sides were filled with curious Indians, drawn likely by word of mouth, who came to watch the white men die.

To their apparent astonishment, the white men in those strange boats managed to navigate all the way down without killing themselves!