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I Sat Through Total Crap in Disney's Hall of Presidents

• LewRockwell

On a hot day a couple weeks ago when I was in town to speak at the Libertarian convention, we spent a day at Disney. (No kids this time.)

I knew the Hall of Presidents would be horrifying, but the show was starting just as we walked by, and it was a hot day, so I figured what the heck.

I didn't plan to write about it, so I didn't take notes. But here's what I remember.

The presidents, we were told, were our "leaders of liberty."

It never got much better than that.

The American Revolution was described as a struggle to "choose our own leaders." As if the problem with George III was that his office was hereditary.

The American revolutionaries were already choosing their own leaders. What they wanted was self-government — to be governed by their own colonial legislatures.

But when you favor centralized government in the 21st century, you'll naturally want to obscure the true meaning of the American Revolution, since it represents a wholesale rebuke of your entire position.

We got a bit about Andrew Jackson as a war hero, and then, with the word "nullification" on the screen, we were told that the issue of slavery began haunting the Union. The nullification crisis of 1832-33 had precisely zero to do with slavery, but again, if decentralization is to be properly demonized, any expression of it must be suppressed or associated with odious causes.


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