For the past several decades, within the dreary halls of every unionized public school in this country, a great fiction about our nation’s history has been spoon-fed to the minds of the young and impressionable. They are programmed through a rigorous Prussian-style system of repetition and regurgitation that what built this great country was not the ingenuity and ambition of great masters of industry and entrepreneurship, but rather a combination of some short-lived and irrelevant union called “The Knights of Labor” and various federal government pork projects. The great American rags-to-riches histories of self-made men and business titans such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, are belittled as nothing more than grand thieving robber barons who had to be put down and squashed by heroic Washington bureaucrats.
This juvenile folklore passing as historical fact would be almost laughable if not for how widespread the acceptance of this myth has become. The state school system fails in most regards, but it has quite the penchant for propagandizing and does a marvelous job at it. As a result of this misinformation, our nation has a collective ignorance of our own proud history and it has led us astray not only politically, but more importantly culturally.
