•A Brief History of America That You Won't Learn in a University
By Larry Romanoff, November 28, 2020
Good mental health was not a prerequisite for European
settlers emigrating to the New World. We are fond of reminding ourselves that
Australia was (and mostly still is) populated primarily with murderers, thieves
and sexual perverts, but the immigrants to America were not noticeably better.
Indeed, the inscription on the Statue of Liberty got the words more or less
correct in referring to "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore".
While the Australians had their serial killers and muggers, the Europeans went
one better with their Christian extremists who spent their weekdays burning
witches and killing Indians, and their Sundays in church thanking God for the
opportunity. The Australians have marginally improved their habits over the
centuries while the Americans have not.
