Fortunately, the average American will not be writing the history of the early 21st century. Just imagine how horrible our understanding of past events would be

Fortunately, the average American will not be writing the history of the early 21st century. Just imagine how horrible our understanding of past events would be if that was the case. And there's a number of people we idolize today that were demonized by the government of their time; take Martin Luther King for instance.