Why Do American Schools Teach Us that 'Revolutionary War' (more like 'Revolting War') is a Crucial Part of Our Past?

@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
June 11, 2022 6:23am CST
This is in-no-way "excusing" The Proud Boys nor The Oath Keepers nor any other MAGA-publican rabble that The Orange Plague roused to strike on January 6, 2021; but ... with public schools teaching us that America's "Founding Fathers" won our freedom through violence & bloodshed, doesn't our bureaucratic "peaceful transfer of power" seem weak by comparison? https://www.bing.com/search?q=why+schools+teach+american+revolution&form=WNSGPH&qs=SW&cvid=5c4f3858c44549e89d9131b14c27d672&pq=why+schools+teach+american+revolution&cc=US&setlang=en-US&DAF0=1&nclid=0642C3270313C2A0949B2CBC0CF3B317&ts=1654944603124&wsso=Off And I know that this thought is sort of 'unevolved'---hearkening back to the Old Testament days when rulership (or 'political office') was won by attacking and conquering the capitol. But it's ANOTHER problem we can blame on The Media, who like to frame our national election as if it's "a competition" (with the peoples' votes as "the scores")---as if the candidates are "gladiators in a deathmatch in the arena of national media" (the 'death' being totally "social"---merely pushing them 'out of the spotlight'). Why don't The Media & public schools teach and remind us that 'the elections' are more like 'public meetings in which we cast our votes in order to help guide the nation in the direction we feel is best'? Why not teach that we didn't "go to war" to get our freedom, but that it was lovingly passed on to us by thoughtful compromise between the powerful royalty of Europe & the phenominally strong Chieftainship of The Americas?
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@RebeccasFarm (86837)
• United States
11 Jun 22
Why indeed.
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