Most Americans educated on the fallacies of history: Analyst

Most Americans have been educated on the fallacies of history which leads to the perverted belief of American exceptionalism, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

Hoenig made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on US President Donald Trump’s statement and Fourth of July celebrations in the United States.

Speaking at a Fourth of July event at Mount Rushmore on Friday, Trump said that American children are being indoctrinated to "hate their own country" in schools.

“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children,” Trump said while commenting on protests countrywide against police brutality and racism.

Trump slammed those tearing down statues of Confederate leaders and other figures.

"The violent mayhem we have seen in our streets and cities are run by liberal Democrats in every case is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism and other cultural institutions," he said.

"Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it weren't heroes, but villains. The radical view of American history is a web of lies," he added.

Following is the text of Hoenig’s interview with Press TV:

What was so radical or revolutionary about July 4th? The US broke from its colonial stranglehold by the British, to be followed decades later by Haiti from the French, and much of Latin America broke from Spain, with the US as a model. These were wars for self-determination, not a radical concept.

The 100 Years’ War beginning in the 14th century was a fight over who controlled the Kingdom of France, the Plantagenets of England or the Valois of France. The rights of people to choose their own direction in life was seen in the Peasant Wars in Germany in the 16th century. Being represented by their own was not a novel idea either. The House of Burgesses in the Virginia colony began this tradition in America. Taxation? Fighting the lords over taxes is probably as old as taxation itself.

To Americans, it is so radical and revolutionary because the American youth, then and today, have been taught to believe that we are a beacon on the hill, a light to all and when we do something, it is original and with the help of Providence. Donald Trump thinks the youth are simply taught to hate America when the reality is that American exceptionalism is deep seated and ingrained. The cancer in America isn’t hating the country but believing we are the best and only.

What is clear, is that most Americans, in their youth, have been educated on the fallacies of history which leads most to accept this perverted idea of exceptionalism. India was a world economic power before the British colonized it. At the time of independence, nearly everything of value had been depleted by the English conquerors. Where would the US be today if it wasn’t for building this great economic and military juggernaut on the backs of Africans enslaved in America or the indigenous population starved and killed into near extinction.

Just look at Mt. Rushmore, where Trump elucidates his poisonous rhetoric attacking all who in America are fighting for justice and recognition of the real story of America’s greatness. The land belonged to the Lakota Sioux but as soon as gold was found the US Army allowed prospectors to go in to their territory, violating treaties between the two powers. That is America’s true history.

The American people who are protesting do not hate America, as Trump propagandizes. They hate what it has become and want to put to a halt to its fascistic, imperialistic and racist trajectory. Some would say they are the real heroes, not the slave owning, Indian killers, land rapists that face the crowd on Mt. Rushmore.

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