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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBarr says "History is written by the winners". That should scare the livin' crap
outta him, don'cha think?
doc03
(35,151 posts)chillfactor
(7,566 posts)that if the Democrats win in November, we get to write the history and his ass will be sitting in a jail cell.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)But I am sure Murdoch could start a Fox History channel
Or if they allow him WiFi in prison he can make edit suggestions to WiKipedia
Igel
(35,199 posts)It's a truism. Something like it goes back to the French Revolution.
Used to be something said on DU from time to time until Barr said it and it was suddenly never said here.
At random, from the search box:
From 2012: https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1014227683
From 2017: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141821160
More recently, 2020: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212858866#post20
Suddenly people have discovered that Goering said it. They've forgotten the not-quite-Nazi Jacobins. And everything in between, and after Goering up to Barr.
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)I understand that the victor has the pleasure of writing the historic version in the paragraph of future high school textbooks. Just as textbooks tell the story of the constitution without mentioning the details behind it like the influence written in the federalists papers. Which is the true history?
But how do we look at the history of the Vietnam war and the escalation that was started by the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. That History is changing because of truth and evidence revealed years later, although I am not certain who could claim to be the victor in that situation.
Barr is counting on the un-redacted Mueller report and the documents from all of the grand jury presentations not being released and locked by SCOTUS.
I hope that there is an appetite to expose the coverup of Russia and other Trump crimes from Democrats after a trifecta can be obtained in November. I think that it is necessary in order to strengthen our laws to prevent another tyrannical presidency like the one we are trying to survive now. If that be true, then the victors shall not be Barr.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I would beg to differ. History will not treat him kindly.