Wednesday, April 16, 2025

3:40.  Her goal is to make Lincoln a scion of the Left, and that's perfectly correct, but the way she does it is deceptive and dishonest, disingenuous and everything else because she creates a false dichotomy.  She creates and enhances the righteous cause myth which is the real problem in America.  If you want to look at where America and American politics went off the rails it's 1863 at Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. It created a Smith that somehow the founding generation believed exactly what Lincoln said in 1863 which they didn't.  It's clear they didn't because of many, many examples.  But then what she does is even worse, when she writes stupid pieces like the one I'm going to talk about today, she says things that are completely wrong, or they're selective, or they're deceptive.  There's a bit of truth in it but she leaves some pretty important details out and she criticizes people for doing the exact same thing listening to a talk she gave the other day says "Say the rest of the quote, say the rest of the quote," she'll do that, trying to go the other person into saying things that she wants them to say.  But she does this all the time.  She's a cherry picker, the worst kind of historian.  That's why I say she's not a very good historian, and why she's deceptive and why she's dishonest, and, of course,

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