"History can't teach US anything!"

Stupid people believe history began yesterday.

That's another way of saying stupid people don't believe history can teach us anything useful.  Ahhh, of course, cupcake.

At least half of all college students are puzzled: "How can history possibly teach us anything?  After all, it was written by old white males!"  And what political party constantly complains that that's a serious problem?

Sure: The leaders of the Democrat partei constantly bleat that.

If you're over 30 and not a Democrat, the amusing lie that history can't teach us anything useful doesn't surprise you.  What may surprise ya is that one political party/group cunningly, deliberately, quietly encourages that belief.

Students at "elite" universities have been taught--by both the K-12 system and their oh-so-clever professors--to believe history can't teach anything.  And as I'll show you below, the people quietly, inferentially pushing ALL Americans to believe history teaches nothing are Democrats and liberals.  And the reason is that they claim the current system is bad, so needs to be changed--right now!

And how do they propose to change the system?  Of course:  "We must give the government more power, and take it away from individuals."   "WAIT, we didn't mean NOW, giving Trump more power!  No no no!  We meant give government more power once a Democrat is president!  Yeh, dat's it!"

So let's look at recent history:  Voice carried by radio didn't become popular until around 1915. Around 1920 to 1940 was the "golden age of radio" when everyone wanted one.  This coincided with the rise of newspaper empires--and someone put 2 and 2 together.

In 1922 journalist Walter Lippmann published a book called Public Opinion, in which he predicted that radio and newspapers would make it possible for a handful of people to make gullible listeners and readers believe...anything.

Newspaper editors already knew most people had a very short attention span, and that if a story didn't get readers' attention in the first paragraph they wouldn't read further.

Lippmann argued that because the public rarely had direct knowledge of what was happening in the nation or world, they had to rely on the Media--papers and radio.  This gave editors and the people who wrote "news" scripts huge power to give consumers a distorted image of reality that he called a ‘pseudo-environment.’  To "create constructs" that often only faintly resembled the truth. 

As you already guessed, no one paid much attention...until a failed revolutionary named Adolf Hitler and company used radio and newspapers to win power in Germany and start World War 2.

All this continues today:  Everything you see on TV or read in "newz"papers is carefully contrived to make you believe certain things,  Most people understand that concept when it comes to ads, but don't believe those "careful constructs" apply to what Americans (and everyone else) amusing calls "news." Because it's been like that for 50 years, no one even notices.

Instead the Media, "entertainers," network talking heads, artists and virtually all university adminishits and professors see their job as telling you what to think--very subtly, of course.  They're never so direct as to say "This is what you should think," but that's the underlying message.  See, dey iz way mo' sophisticated den us deplorables.  Dey's convinced dat inviting 20 million illegals to enter the U.S. is "good," so now they see their job as convincing you to believe that too--cuz if a majority thinks it's bad, they vote Republican.

Oooohhh, can't have that, eh?

Decades ago, journalism schools taught reporters "the five W's:" who, what, where, why and when.  But today that's almost always subordinated to The Agenda: advance the Democrat party, trash conservatives, the "nuclear family," God, Christianity, heterosexuals, "cis-genders," white males.  It's gotten so absurd that all the major paper and wire-service "stylebooks" say stories about trannies must use the tranny's fake (but favored) pronouns--so men are always "she" and vice-versa.

Another example: During the Chyna virus panic, governments ordered all restaurants and small mom-and-pop stores closed, but allowed the Big-Box stores to stay open.  Obviously if the virus was contagious in one, it would be contagious in all stores, eh?  Some states allowed bars to stay open, but ordered gyms and fitness centers closed. 

Or consider that the moronic tyrant Gretch Whitmer ordered that just certain sections of stores be roped off to shoppers.  I'd love to hear her try to explain the scientific basis for that, eh?  Of course there was no scientific basis--the decree/order was an utter absurdity.  Yet the power of the people creating the construct was so great that everyone obeyed.

Most Americans think we have freedom of speech, eh?  But during the panic, at the request of the corrupt Fibbies, Fakebook and pre-Musk Twatter deleted user posts disagreeing with Fauci's lies.  Same with the story of hunty bribem's abandoned laptop.  Same with users who claimed family members who took the jab died within weeks.  And in all those cases almost no one said a critical word, because the power of the construct creators is that great.  And has been, for so long that no one even notices.