interesting quote from source:
Much of the establishment rage at “conspiracy theories” has been driven by the notion that rulers are entitled to intellectual passive obedience. The same lèse-majesté mindset has been widely adopted to make a muddle of American history. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the court historian for President John F. Kennedy and a revered liberal intellectual, declared in 2004, “Historians today conclude that the colonists were driven to revolt in 1776 because of a false conviction that they faced a British conspiracy to destroy their freedom.”
What is wrong with “historians today”?! Was the British imposition of martial law, confiscation of firearms, military blockades, suspension of habeas corpus, and censorship simply a deranged fantasy of Thomas Jefferson? The notion that the British would never conspire to destroy freedom would play poorly in Dublin, where the Irish suffered centuries of brutal British oppression. Why should anyone trust academics who were blind to British threats in the 1770s to accurately judge the danger that today’s politicians pose to Americans’ liberty?
These same historians whitewash the evil racist Woodrow Wilson as well. The man was responsible for the rise of Jim Crow legislation with his sympathy for the “Lost Cause”. He re-segregated federal jobs, relegating blacks to menial posts. He was an authoritarian and thus a darling of academia. He always gets high marks amongst the “intelligentsia”.
Lol. What a misnomer. “Intelligentsia”.