One of my main contentions is that people do not know their own history. American history is more mythology than history. Problems of inequality and its institutionalization in government go back to the Founding of the Republic. Neoliberalism, the ideology of our kleptocratic ruling class, does not find its roots in Wilsonian liberalism. It is a carbon copy of it: elitist, pro-corporate, pro-interventionist, paternalistic, and virulently anti-populist. FDR ran as a liberal and only became a New Dealer for four years from 1932 to 1936. He stayed a New Dealer only long enough to ensure the survival of capitalism. Once this was done he did not hesitate to plunge the country back into the depression in 1937 it had just left in 1936 and keep it there for another 4 years. […] we can quibble about when exactly the process began, but it certainly began somewhere between 1968 and 1978 with roots going deep in the nation’s real history, not the fake one taught in schools.