“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt”

As recently as the 90s in my area, I should have said. I… don’t doubt that many areas are still fucking terrible on the matter, both by use of old textbooks and by whatever the fuck the GOP is pushing in red states.

If Germany had minded their own genocide of minorities and borders, the US (and many other countries) probably never would have intervened.

Horrific, isn’t it?

Partly, but not entirely - there were two previous ideological shifts in the Republican Party - ~1870 -~1890, and ~1910 - which also detached the radical labor element from the Republican Party, making the control of capital over the party more total, and increased the core policy hostility towards workers - necessitating appealing to other prejudices to win over the working class votes necessary to win elections.

It’s gotten better, at least. My school had modern textbooks when I was growing up, but I remember one of my middle school history teachers, who was old enough to have taught a Black school during segregation (and was, naturally, scathing about the cruelty and hypocrisy of segregation despite being a white guy), talking about the kind of things textbooks used to peddle as recently as the 90s.

He was a cool guy.