Much of what is seen in today’s left started with Howard Zinn. He stoked the anger, he leveled the charges of institutionalized, never-ending, and unforgivable racism. He pushed the narrative of “white superiority”, now morphed into “white privilege”.
He pressed the foolish notion that socialism was the superior political system. He made up the narrative of purposeful, indiscriminate, racist genocide of native Americans. He made up the narrative of America being founded unjustly, by greed, so flawed that it had to be remade in his image of a Marxist paradise.
He virtually invented the anti-American outrage so prevalent today, persuading our celebrities, our media, and an entire generation that America is, and has always been, awful.
This from a man who excused Castro’s Cuba, exalted Mao’s China, praised North Vietnam, and to my knowledge has never uttered a negative word concerning the hundred million plus people slaughtered by socialist regimes in the twentieth century.
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Look at what he has succeeded in getting the left to profess:
•The left has adopted his uncritical belief in socialism. They will not look at socialism’s clear and present historical mountain range of flaws.
•The United States has no trait worthy of praise. We have such a poisonous system, that it must be destroyed. At any price.
•They will continue to believe that they, the left, can do no wrong.
•They can overlook a hundred million people being slaughtered as a trifle not to be mentioned.
•They can allow narratives to be made up in order to further their cause. Truth need not apply.
Look at the past few months and you’ll see his influence. Hillary Clinton only lost the election because of “Russia, Russia, Russia” ... After all, it couldn’t have been anything she did, didn’t do, her weak campaign, or unlikability. Socialists can’t do anything wrong.
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