(OriginalPost) I was told so often during my life that the United States was a great country. In grade school the USSR became Russia, and in junior high we saved Kuwait from a bad man. Over time I struggled with the notion that most of what I thought about my country during those years was bullshit. Howard Zinn then informs me that most of what I learned about US history was bullshit as well. This made me a proud version of what a lot of Americans love to hate. In fact, so many of the people who voted for George W. Bush twice but are now hating his guts over immigration, are those same people who looked down on me for criticizing the guy when we invaded Iraq. Which has me wondering now, whether this defection has now turned the virtue of dissent into bullshit as well. Perhaps I’m simply coming at it from the wrong angle though, as bullshit is really an inherent facet of politics and history and people anyhow.
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