Another Liberal Fails History

Renew America ^ | March 10, 2015 | Tim Dunkin

[A CA Guy]

You can thank Dems for empowering the KKK. Prior Dem Presidents even had them welcomed to the White House.

[longfellow]

There’s an old saying about America.
Love it or leave it.

Don’t let the door hit your dumb ass on the way out.

[a fool in paradise]

Barron’s test guides for the AP exams teaches the test, apparently.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3265796/posts
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Daily Caller ^ | 3/8/15 | Eric Owens

[SMARTY]

“think we’re better than everyone else.”

YES...If I wouldn’t do what YOU do, then I AM better than you are!!!

When the US begins to behead, incinerate, force EVERYONE into ONE religion, force women to sit at home with sheets on their heads, deny women education, force underage girls into marriage, demonize Jews... etc... Well, then we can revisit this conversation!

[SaxxonWoods]

The idea of American exceptionalism is easily defended.

America is the only country or empire in recorded history to have the entire world at its feet (Summer 1945) and not take whatever it wanted. Not only did it not take whatever it wanted, it loaned money to the vanquished to rebuild. Of course that was self-serving (we needed a decent world economy), but it was also world-serving.

[hinckley buzzard]

The author should have taken a few lines to explain how this idiot girl did not even understand the concept of "American exceptionalism."

[a fool in paradise]

America even gave away Eastern Europe (freed of Nazism) to the Soviets (Communist dictatorship).

If episodes in history are going to be compared, they need to be compared to the wonderful paradises that the Commies wish we would become.

[Noumenon]

Susan Ladd - another low-rent Howard Zinn kool-aid drinker.

He’s dead. She should join him.

[driftless2]

I’m not against something hitting them hard on their way out. Preferably a huge boot up their wazoo.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I spent a fair bit of time around university history departments in the mid-1980's, and even at that time, they were absolutely in love with Howard Zinn.

His People's History of the United States is the literal Bible for the Obamaite view that this country is racist/sexist/bigoted/oppressive and not exceptional in the least.

Zinn was one of the most influential people that most of us never heard of.

[HotHunt]

"There's an OLD saying about America."

"Love it or leave it" was a popular saying when I was in my "yut" in college in the late 60s. So are you calling me old?

I resemble that remark... :-)

[CaptainAmiigaf]

One thing you left out. Unlike the Mongols, Aztecs, Native Americans, Turks, Zulu and other African tribes, when the United States of America had the entire world at its feet in late 1945 in addition to the world’s ONLY Atomic bombs, under American policy THE KILLING STOPPED.
When “others” were victorious, they got down to the real killing.
That’s one thing exceptional about the United States.

[SECURE AMERICA]

To her, the idea that the United States of America is better than anyone else, or has even been a positive force for good in world history, is “hypocritical” and just plain wrong. She

These people are so pathetic and easily dealt with.
One question does it.
If America is not exceptional is not a special place, then why do more peoples from more different Country’s come here then go to any other country in the world?

[PATRIOT1876]

Don’t forget the 100 million or so killed by people who think the way that Susan does...

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4230/so_how_many_did_communism_kill

[wbill]

Worth linking to the Original Article.

For those with masochistic tendencies, it's worth a read. I couldn't get through it.

[gusty]

Neither the author or the leftist he takes to task seem to know what American Exceptonalism means. Both seem to have no clue. American Exceptionalism comes from the Jeffersonian concept of the United States as the “Empire of Liberty”. It was later fleshed out by Alexis de Tocqueville in his writings in the 1830’s to show the exceptional ism of our republic in a world of tyranny. It has nothing to do with how we are as a people. It was a description of the United States as the ideal of Classic Liberalism in the 19th Century.

[Carry_Okie]

Yes, we had slavery. But we were also one of the few countries that not only freed our slaves (at great cost to ourselves), but then proceeded to eventually grant that same despised minority the same equal rights of citizenship that the majority enjoys?

And paid them trillions in financial support, and put their kids in front of ours to get into college, and gave them preferences in business, and...

Parity is hardly the case.

[Col Freeper]

Always remember: