Joel, I don't think I made any personal attacks against you, and I certainly hope you find a way to deal with your misguided hostility.(posted 8957 days ago)No, by my standards, Timothy McVie would not be a good candidate for President. Can't seem to follow your logic on that one. Please illuminate.
If you homeschool your children to hide the history of the world from them and the economics of our time, whatever truths you perceive those to hold, then what will they discover when they are young adults and have to function in that world? I applaud the fact that you have convictions, but perhaps a balanced view or a representation of various views would be more realistic than shielding your kids from what they will inevitably find out.
What should I say about slavery and the stealing of this country? You can't honestly believe that I condone it. People came to a place, they lied and killed the native people, and took the land. That is war, and not a very unique history to this land or any other. We don't have slaves now, and we can't repay the American Indians. It all happened before my white trash ancestory came here.
Joel, if you were in a foreign country, and your human rights were being violated, or those of your family, do you understand the power of these words: " I am an American Citizen" ? What would you have me say? That I denounce our government, though with all it's flaws it is the best chance at justice on the planet? That our democracy, in it's infancy, was penned by hypocrits? I think that they chose a better life for coming generations. That Abraham Lincoln, born into nothing, child of "white trash", demolisher of slavery, was some sort of criminal, rather than an example of what is possible only in the U.S.?
I don't see history the way that you do. I can't apologize for sins of others, and there is no way of knowing which events in U.S. history most pivotally affected the outcomes of today.