Quote:Glossing over of slavery in regards to the civil war while sympathizing with the south. No talk about the Japanese internment. Barely touching on civil rights or woman's suffrage movements. I suppose conservative bias is perhaps a broad term and would not not be proper for some. More of the idea that America is the best, does nothing wrong and anything we did wrong along with the glorification of battles and war. Little context or insight into other nations or our interactions with them. 

 

I say conservative because the general basis of conservatives views of america is that we are the best and we should always lead because we are always right so my history books painted our country in this light drilling patriotism into us in a manner I disagree with these days. 

 

The thing is, it's a liberal tenant that America is not great.  I would venture to say that now, not so much, but once we were.  Let's take a look at some of the achievements that have come out of this country.  These are just off the top of my head.

 

First off is the founding of this country.  Many people sacrificed and died in order for this country to be created (one of the reasons that we observed our recent holiday), defeating a far superior British military.

 

Next, we came up with a system of law.  This has been followed for many years, and because of it, we developed into something great.

 

The Civil War came about that not only corrected what was wrong here (civil rights abuses, "slavery"), but it also united the states.

 

During WWII we came up with nuclear technology that helped end the war (we won by the way).  We also defeated two major enemies in the process, and many lives were lost.  Also during that time many other things were developed and/or improved on.  Think cars, television, electricity and appliances.

 

During the Korean War we expelled a violent and brutal dictator out of South Korea and have since then ensured the safety of South Korea.  Look at where North Korea is now.

 

By the end of that era, we developed jet engines and rocket engines and put a man on the moon.

 

It was shortly after this period of time when electronics and computer technology took off.  The C programming language was invented and developed (which is still in use today) as well as the UNIX computer operating system (again still in use today and runs much of the internet).

 

In the next period of time, the Cold War was ended due to us as a nation under the leadership of Ronald Reagan.  Also during that period the first home computer was born and being developed (the Apple).  It was also during that period of time that the internet was being developed.

 

I could go on and I probably missed a few things such as the development of electricity, the phone, etc.  However, I hope that you get the idea that America, and specifically The United States of America is great.  It's because of accomplishments made by people here long before you and I.

 

So if you don't like the "drilling" of patriotism into your meager brain, how about thinking about what the people did when they defeated the British Army back during our country's founding?

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