Yes, I've been monitoring his slow shift to the right with great pleasure, much like Dennis Miller or my mother he is what I call a 'Bush Democrat', he just in denial, soon he will realize he has joined the Dark Side, Mwahahahaha!!!! the right wing. Realistically though, there's no getting around that the 'center' of the left has definitely drifted leaving a lot of it's more centrist members a bit bewildered, OSC seems one such.



That's one interpretation, the other being that Texas, whose democrats are basically right-wing compared to a New England republican, represent a good place to look when trying to find ways to imply the crazy right is trying to brainwash kids to view the Founders as infallible demigods and the GOP as their clergy. Considering the NYT's track record these days I find the latter more likely than the former as primary motivator.





I've no particular objection to this method myself. As mentioned, I have a very limited knowledge of how kids learn history in high school, what little I do know about education at that level usually comes from me demanding info and math and science after a 'What do you mean you don't know what a quadratic equation is?', I rarely asked my students what amount of history. I would say that much of that makes sense, but it is an area I avoid giving much input on since I don't have much context and even as a kid I always read history books like I'd read an editorial, assuming a slant, because I started by reading autobiographies, which now that I think about it was probably a good thing.