The reading on historians as policy makers got me thinking
about the general state of the nation.
Fact checking of politicians is on the rise, and has become one of the
buzzwords of this election debate cycle.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could watch a presidential debate and not
hear the announcers tell us that we have to wait on the fact checkers to dig
into the script? What if we didn’t
have to be concerned that a candidate will follow through with their statements? We are lied to about personal records
and campaign promises and we are deceived about the real outcomes of past
policies. I think that a biggest
question here is why we are all OK with it. Personally, I see this as an outcome of Wallace’s point
about us being historicidal, why else would we allow the lessons of history to
not apply to our politicians? It
seems to me that with all the finger pointing and mud slinging and accusations
of lies, from both sides, that continues, and expands, every four years there
could be no time like the present to start a movement of historian policy
makers. What would it take to make
this change, obviously it would require more than just a bunch of historians
running for office, but what do we think that might be.
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