Lies They Teach in School: Exposing the Myths Behind 250 Commonly Believed Fallacies

by Herb Reich

In a political quid pro quo, the Southern Democrats agreed to back the Republican in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South and an end to Reconstruction. Hayes became president with 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184.

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In a political quid pro quo, the Southern Democrats agreed to back the Republican in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South and an end to Reconstruction. Hayes became president with 185 electoral votes to Tilden’s 184.

This end of reconstruction doomed any advancement towards equality in the south. The north has always been complicit in Jim Crow and the systemic racism in the United States

In a decision that still rankles today, the court ruled that a contract “cannot be based on an ante-election promise to voters generally by a candidate for public office, so as to give a voter a right to restrain the promiser from violating same.” Which means simply that there is no legal recourse by which the electorate can pressure a candidate to live up to his or her campaign pledges, so politicians are free to say whatever they please in order to solicit votes without any obligation to fulfill their promises once in office. And candidates apparently know this, or at least act as if they do.

Hence a country of political grifters and alternative facts

Pigs are thought of as dirty animals (they are not) because they have an affinity for mud pools; but so do some starlets and pampered women of wealth.

This amused me

But the outcome cannot accurately be called a massacre; rather it was a battlefield defeat of an armed military force in a hostile action.

Unlike Wounded Knee, the genocide waged against California natives, and the near extinction of the Taina to name a few

The entire confrontation had lasted thirty-eight minutes, the shortest war in recorded history.

And another example of colonialism in action