Newspaper Reader on the ‘The Walt Disney Version of American History’ !
Jun 25, 2026
An example of this ‘ersatz methology’ :
The break-up
1776
Twelve score and ten years ago—on July 4th 1776—the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia approved the Declaration of Independence (signing would take weeks: this was before email). The United States of America, as the troublemakers styled their new creation, had already been at war with Britain for more than a year. Good King George III was not the tyrant of American legend, but we grudgingly admit that his insistence on asserting authority and raising revenue in the colonies helped turn protest into revolution.
The Declaration became America’s first great statement of liberal principle, espousing those Enlightenment ideals of natural rights and government by consent. It proclaimed that “all men are created equal”—though many of its signatories owned slaves. With rare exceptions, white women and black people were excluded from voting, as were many poor white men. Indigenous nations were ignored or exploited. The world’s first liberal republic was, in practice, a narrow aristocracy (without the noble titles). But, as George Washington said, the government’s true character would only emerge with time.
Reader: self-congetulation wedded to political mendacity is the primay goal of this attempt at an ersatz Historiography! This reader spent many years reading the political chatter of Micklethwait and Wooldridge, and their magum opus of ‘The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America’ of 2004 , an attempt at an unapologetic for Bush’ The Younger’s The War’s in Afghanistan and Iraq!
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