[DariusBane]

It’s a great way to pretend that States Sovereignty was never really a big deal.

[litehaus]

"Hobamma to the Highest"

How U no he be smoking dat stuf agin? /sarc

[laotzu]

It’s a great way to....

..assure we forget that, just like today, it was Democrats that fought for slavery.

[ClearCase_guy]

It also allows one to skip over the Republican Party's effort at Reconstruction in the South and the implementation of civil rights for blacks in the post-civil war era.

Instead, you can just start right up with a resurgence of southern racism, leading to the KKK, lynchings and Jim Crow (please ignore the heavy hand of the Democrats in all of that). Then, since we are clearly such an evil country, you can slide easily into the rise of the Progressives and the strong role played by Government throughout the 20th century to make this country the great nation we see today.

Makes me sick.

[Neidermeyer]

1877? Huh ,, right before the book that sparked the American Progressive movement was published.. taking Marx and making his ideas palatable ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Backward