The Progressives: It’s NOT a New Ideology

One of the most irritating things for somebody who loves history is just how little history Americans know. We suffer from collective amnesia. It’s a cultural thing since we tend to be a forward-looking nation. One that has forgotten large parts of our history. Some are really bad parts, like slavery, how women had to fight for voting rights, the whole mess over civil rights.

Then, of course, there is the genocide of first Americans. We really make a point not to remember. Or for that matter, there is the war with Mexico in 1848, which under modern…