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kids in american schools are taught a whole pile of factually inaccurate stuff that fits into some nitwit nationalist story, loquitor. like most basic "history" it's only secondarily about history. it's a whole lot more about conditioning kids into being nice, docile citizens. you know....to have difficulty thinking critically about the u.s. of a.....building consent.....it's social reproduction, just as marx said it was.
so appealing to what kids learn in primary and secondary school isn't a real compelling historical argument. just saying.
for example, it's interesting that the problems that faced the post-revolutionary american system tend to gloss over the whole articles of confederation period and instead kind of start with the magickal moment of ratification of the constitution and treat the war of 1812 as a kind of system perturbation. reality is very different from that. but i digress.
but i agree with what you say above. it's accurate. and i expect that you're right about monroe.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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