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I think it makes complete sense to describe us as terrible. We are what we are. No point in sugar coating it.

Write the books to talk about how a lot of people were upset with the way things went. But don't forget to include the part about how lots of people were happy with it.

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Problem is: if the other side had one, lots of people would feel exactly the way you do. But from the other side. So who is right?

Of course. I advocate writing both perspectives, knowing that the bias of the victor would show up.

But looking back, I think we’ve done a major disservice in the US by not including the dark parts of history in our stories: civil war -> states rights. Nazis -> no american ever supported that idea.

Stuff like that. It makes the times we live through now feel like a surprise to many I think. They’re shocked people could actually support racists, bigots, worthless people.

But here we are.

> They’re shocked people could actually support racists, bigots, worthless people.

Oh please. Just take a look at the shenanigans around HRC's nomination. Democrats have no claim to moral authority, if that's what you're suggesting.

Nope. Not at all.

Especially given the fact that Henry Ford was an incredibly pernicious anti-semite who supported Adolf Hitler's movement in its infancy with financing for vehicles and uniforms. Nazism got its start in America and for us to pretend like it's some foreign ideology is bonkers.

There is historical evidence that Hitler got many of his ideas and policies from American eugenicists.

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/09/hitler-th...

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