Thanks, by the way, for the education.
LOL! Ol' GW is impossible to completely consign down the memory hole.
IMO, the major reason the libs need to discredit the pilgrims is because an integral part of their success as colonists was the absolute rejection of the, socialist, communal farming system they instituted when they first arrived in favor of a private ownership system that flourished in comparison.
It failed miserably for the same reasons socialist systems will always fail. The productive portion of a society will grow tired of producing for people that merely leech off their labor.
Now there is a lesson that has been largely, consigned to the memory hole.