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8. It's too torrid for most people.

Nobody in this country wants to acknowledge what the US did to Latin America between 1954 and 1992 (well, really 1996, but who's counting?). Because that would be to acknowledge some truly atrocious, horrible things that occurred under Democratic and Republican administrations. Even Carter, the champion of human rights, looked the other way while Somoza brutally oppressed his people. And don't get me wrong, Carter eventually came around, unlike all of the Republicans, who did much, much worse.

My students-college students- have no idea about any of this. Unless, that is, they come from other nations. American students, by and large, are never taught this stuff. I didn't learn it until college, and it brought back vague memories of being a young kid in the '80s and watching terrible things on the news with my parents.