The reason why Americans hate socialism and love Reagan is something known as "rugged individualism." The idea is that our founding fathers were all this way, so should we be. Of course they had free land for squatters, slave labor, and a near monoply on the world's biggest cash crop. How tough was that? They hold true to 18th century ideology and economics because it worked for them. We never hand the bejesus bombed out of us, nor had to ever rely on the government or any other nation to bail our asses out of anything. Sure we defaulted on loans to England to build our railroads etc. etc., but none of that stuff is in our history books. Horrible things such as the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny are part of our psyche as good things. They have altered our history. The Civil War was fought over tarrifs and had nothing to do with slavery. We bought Florida from Spain, we didn't steal it. The Native Americans were a bunch of naked savages that ran around scalping each other, they should be thankful for our white Jesus. Our history books were rewritten during the Red Scare era of the 1950s to combat evil communism, both at home and abroard. Any attempt to make them truthful is known as "revisionism." You can hear the hillbillies say, "That wasn't our history when I was growing up." And that is why we are a bunch of sorry assholes.
"On Earth as it is in Heaven, the Cosmic Roots of the Bible" available on the Amazon.
