Attack on Revisionist History

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100401/pl_mcclatchy/3466905

While the attack is aimed mainly at "right-wing" revisionism, the arrogant and ignorant approach taken against anyone who questions the Government's take on past events (remember, the winners always write history) fails to understand basic economics.

It's true, Alexander Hamilton was indeed a firm believer in Strong Central Government. He was also insane, wanted to abolish the states, lied about his (and other Federalist's) intentions at the Constitutional Convention in the Federalist Papers, desired an "American Empire" complete with a standing army, and an executive who would serve for a life-term.

It's also true that Joseph McCarthy was exactly as crazed in his witch-hunt for the "evil communists" as history records.

However, where the Conservative Historians are correct is in their take on both Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, along with Jamestown.

FDR may have not caused the Great Depression, but he did prolongue it unnecessarily with his Keynesian programs. TR may have not been a socialist, but he was by all means a radical progressivist. And Jamestown was, by all accounts, operated under Marxist principles.

The attempt by Statist Liberal (and Statist Conservative) Historians to monopolize the study, and prevent any further review by "anti-establishment types", is anti-science and anti-freedom.