{"id":3595,"date":"2012-07-26T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T14:10:29","slug":"history-is-not-a-friend-of-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/history\/history-is-not-a-friend-of-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"History is not a friend of the left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You must have noticed this before, leftists are bad at history. \u00a0Even when they are &#8220;good&#8221; with most historical items, they selectively edit history to line up with their political views. \u00a0Views with tend to run at odds with reality.<\/p>\n<p>An example I&#8217;ve listed before is where one leftist accused President Reagan of reinstating draft registration as part of his &#8216;war mongering.&#8217; \u00a0He was not happy when I pointed out that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1036\">Jimmy Carter, the worst president of the latter half of the 20th Century<\/a>, who did that.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a new example, a very smart fellow, whom I <em>know<\/em> is a more than mildly serious history buff, rattled off a very clear,\u00a0concise\u00a0and accurate, summary of the failure of\u00a0Solyndra. \u00a0It was however, missing some key facts that didn&#8217;t fit his political world view.<\/p>\n<p>The facts missing completely change the\u00a0narrative, which is what he objects to.<\/p>\n<p>The facts in question are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solyndra applied for federal loans\/grants during the G.W. Bush administration, which turned them down. \u00a0The reason stated was that they did not have a solid business plan that showed a path to profitability, no matter how much money was dumped their way.<\/li>\n<li>After our <em>Dear Leader<\/em>, Barack Hussein Obama, occupied the White House, Solyndra reapplied, and where quickly approved as part of the Obama regime&#8217;s &#8220;Green Jobs&#8221; program.<\/li>\n<li>The CEO of Solyndra was a major &#8220;bundler&#8221; to both the DNC and Barack Hussein Obama.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the world of the left, Solyndra failure was &#8216;not their fault&#8217; and had nothing to do with Obama paying off his political donors with tax payer money.<\/p>\n<p>If this was the only case of a company, which happens to be run by a big DNC\/BHO donor, receiving millions of taxpayer dollars as part of BHO&#8217;s &#8220;Green Jobs&#8221; program, and then &#8220;unexpectedly&#8221; went bankrupt, I&#8217;d be willing to buy into this particular leftist fantasy. \u00a0It is a leftist fantasy because there have been multiple other companies that fit this same profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must have noticed this before, leftists are bad at history. \u00a0Even when they are &#8220;good&#8221; with most historical items, they selectively edit history to line up with their political views. \u00a0Views with tend to run at odds with reality. 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