"This Golden Age lasted from about 20,000 BC up until the American Revolution. After 1776 everything just went downhill."

Oleg Atbashian, at PajamasMedia, recounts history as viewed by today's modern liberal:

 

Prior to July 4, 1776, not a single person in the world starved, got sick, worked hard for a living, or experienced any pain nor anxiety. No one had ever been oppressed or unfairly exploited because the oppressive and unfair American system had not yet been created.

“Habeas Corpus was the law of the land, along with Exit Strategy and Geneva Conventions.”

Since the beginning of time employment had been equally guaranteed to anyone who cared to work, along with an equal pay of exactly $1,000 a week regardless of outcome, occupation, or geographical area. All work was equally pleasant and enjoyable. Those who chose not to work also received $1,000 a week in unemployment compensation and union benefits. Other guaranteed rights of the people included the rights to housing and free universal health care, as well as the right to 100% literacy through federally funded public education.

People never heard of war, crime, corruption, slavery, torture, murder, cannibalism, and man-made hurricanes. Peace and harmony reigned supreme because the concepts of greed, selfishness, and private property had not yet been invented by the American corporate interests and maliciously spread around the world as part of the American cultural hegemony.

Each person in that ideal world practiced his or her own peaceful spirituality, worshipping Earth, Nature, and the Sacred Feminine, while honoring the spiritual traditions of everyone else. Benevolent chieftains dispensed benefits to each of their subjects according to their needs, taking care that ethnic and sexual minorities were equally and proportionally represented in all spheres of public life.

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Once they stole enough wealth and power, the Yankees moved on to exploit the rest of the world, setting up corporations on every street corner in order to oppress and humiliate people of other cultures, races, and religions. “American TV commercials insulted the refined tastes of subsistence farmers so much that they often threw organic eggs…”The corporations launched wars and endemic diseases to create economic need and political chaos from which, like Venus from the sea foam, the greedy bourgeois class was born. With the help of the local bourgeoisie, the Americans overthrew all of the free world’s honest and caring chieftains, replacing them with corrupt democratic regimes in order to steal their oil and destroy local ecosystems.

American preachers and missionaries confiscated all means of birth control from the aboriginal tribes, causing disastrous demographic explosions, followed by famine and more wars. Once the world was subdued and demoralized, Americans lowered indigenous peoples’ salaries to ten cents a day, at the same time forcing them to buy American goods by way of boldfaced advertising.

Seem a little over the top?  Perhaps.  Perhaps not.  Atbashian continues:

This alternative history may never be officially acknowledged, yet it is being implied in news radio and TV programming, film documentaries, Hollywood movies, UN resolutions, comedy shows, and political speeches — including those delivered by Democrats running for President — let alone millions of stickers, placards, T-shirts, and buttons sold at “progressive” junkets.

If I didn’t know the real history and was a little more gullible, as many public school graduates are today, such a narrative might also become a part of my perspective. I might conclude, along with such “progressive” minds as Sean Penn and Ben Affleck, that the United States is a force of evil. I might agree with Noam Chomsky and Ward Churchill that the world’s oppressed would be damned fools if they didn’t hate America and yearn for the destruction of this unspeakable beast. As a fair-minded person I might even give them a hand - as Ramsey Clark and Lynn Stewart have done, making the support of America’s enemies their full-time job and a life-long commitment.

There's tons more... all worthy of your time and of passing on to a progressive with sense...

Yes, I know... that combination is rare but it's out there and the hope is that they'll come to their senses at some point and see the idiocy they're embracing.

That's hope and change worth believing in.

Comments

[HasItBeen4YearsYet?]

And don't forget that the climate was perfect, too. No hurricanes, no tornadoes and if one got hit by lightning it would merely tickle. The temperatures were balmy and the seas so calm that one could easily travel from Paris to Perth by canoe in under an hour, with the canoes paddling themselves. Fish would even jump, fully cooked, into your boat. There were neither earthquake nor tsunami, and never any volcanoes, at least none that hurt people. Jokes were always funny, and politicians honest and wise.

[Hypocrites_are_everywhere]

When the Sun was 'our' only God... and there were no Vatican folks that protected the Boston child abusing priests for decades until they all got caught; nor homophobes that voted against same-sex marriage while keep perfecting the art of masturbation! :)

-- with all the love, compassion and moral values of the past 8 years! :)

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

“and there were no Vatican folks that protected the Boston child abusing priests for decades”

Yea, no atheist would ever molest a child, right.

“nor homophobes that voted against same-sex marriage”

Ah yes, the ole ‘if your against gay marriage you a homophobe’ tripe. That’s almost as intelligent as saying if your for gay marriage you like to suck d*%k. Grow up and stop visiting Paris Hilton’s blog, it’ll turn your brain to mush.