Under the poisonous influence of malcontented leftists, particularly Howard Zinn and his revisionist “A People’s History of the United States,” far too many of us have been indoctrinated with ugly lies about this country. This mis-education needs to be remedied as soon as possible before we unwittingly destroy the last best hope for freedom, liberty, equal economic opportunity and real progress, in the world ~

How is America to be defined? By its failures or its triumphs? Today, there seems to be an obsession with the former and a dismissal of the latter. Is this dark vision of the freest and most prosperous nation on earth an accurate narrative or a cynical distortion? James Robbins, columnist for USA Today and author of “Erasing America,” considers that question in this video. How we view America’s past will very much shape America’s future.