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whitewashing
propaganda disguised as history
'we are not a people with a revolutionary or an insurrectionary tradition. the war of independence, while it borrowed the rhetoric of revolution, replaced a foreign oligarchy with a native, slaveholding oligarchy. the founding fathers were conservative. the primacy of private property, especially slaves, was paramount to the nation's founders.
the framers of the constitution established a series of mechanisms to thwart the popular will, from the electoral college to the appointment of senators, buttressed by the disenfranchisement of african americans, women, native americans, and the landless. george washington, probably the wealthiest man in the country when the war was over - much of his money was earned by speculating on seized indian land - shared exclusive economic and political power with his fellow aristocrats. this distrust of popular rule among the elite runs in a straight line from 'the federalist papers' and the constitutional convention of 1787 to the 2000 presidential election, where the democratic candidate, al gore, received over half a million more popular votes than the republican george w. bush.' - chris hedges
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