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El Niño Speaks 57: The Real Abraham Lincoln

El Niño Speaks

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The Lincoln Myth Refutes Miffs

The Lincoln myth, as I call it, is really the ideological cornerstone of the American state. And whatever the state does, good or bad, it sort of sits back and claims to have a treasury of virtue made by Robert Penn Warren. In order to believe in this, this treasury of virtue, some people call it American exceptionalism, you have to forget almost everything that is real about Lincoln.

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