Conservatives have fallen in love with a history – and an America – that never was. Regnery publishes a series of “history” books spinning the revision.
Revisionist messiah David Barton has recruited disciples – Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, Michele Bachman among them – to spread his word of deceit. We are told that no revolution ever actually took place, that it was just conservatives asserting their long-standing rights – reasserting the status quo, as it were.
We are told America was founded – over two centuries ago – as a fundamentalist Christian theocracy based on doctrines that did not at the time even exist; that the Constitution is based on the Bible despite this being demonstrably untrue; and we are told that the Civil War was at its heart a struggle against big government and the federal regulatory system.
And that is why the Confederate Stars and Bars have become the Tea Party battle flag.
http://www.politicususa.com/en/the-tea-party-is-wrong-the-civil-war-was-fought-over-slavery
