As I have learned, and particularly since the publication of American Betrayal, history is far too important to be left to professional historians content (ordered?) to trudge along the familiar groove of false narrative (until roused to any-means-necessary search-and-destroy missions against those who venture off-road in search of buried truth).
This
is a matter of more than academic import. It is of much wider concern than to
students or buffs. History is, should be, the guidestar of our conduct as a
nation.The fact that we founder so dangerously today is directly related to the
continuous loop of falsehood and misunderstanding about exactly how we got this
way.
Take
the 1940s international war aid program for anti-Axis powers known as Lend
Lease. This program, which passed into law in 1941, gutted Congress's powers of
the purse and war-making, also advise-and-consent, and gave them to the
executive branch…....
I
came across the (above) video of a 1941 speech opposing Lend Lease as a
Constitutional matter by Rep. Hamilton
Fish III. By itself, it is a fascinating history lesson about Lend
Lease, but it also carries echoes of our modern-day crisis concerning the
history of executive branch dictatorship. ...…To Read More….
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