The Genius Of Krugman And The Left Explained!
And his little dog too...For a rant about the historical illiteracy of the left, it contains an awful lot of factual mistakes and misleading wordplay.
My favorite was this: "The more conservative nations, led by Winston Churchill, FDR (in spite of the New Deal), and Harry S Truman, in a Devil's Bargain with Jozef Stalin, defeated Hitler and Tojo."
Let's see. One conservative Tory and two liberal Democrats (one of whom is arguably the president most hated by conservatives precisely because of the aforementioned New Deal) make them "more conservative?" That's some interesting math.
It also ignores the fact that as damage to the Third Reich goes, Stalin was responsible for much more of it than any of the other three. But that's a mistake made by most Americans, so it can be excused, if you don't mind those of us who studied real world history and not the ridiculous propaganda that passes for it in most American high schools and 101 level college courses pointing and laughing at you.
I'm equally amused by the notion that the Founding Fathers were conservative in any sense of the word. The modern understandings of conservative and liberal don't apply, but in the context of their time, the Founding Fathers were not just not conservative, they were some of the most radical radicals who ever lived. Overthrowing the rule of a king ordained by God in favor of a government "by the people, for the people?" Heavens! Get the smelling salts!
The real conservatives of the era spent more than a century trying to clamp back down on the spirit of liberty unleashed there (check out the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 for starters), and only really gave up the fight after World War I, when an entirely different set of forces got unleashed on the world.
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