For various reasons, Conservatives tend to have an advantage when it comes to getting the American public to believe their idealogical propaganda. Perhaps this will help to swing things more to the Liberal side: Top 5 Myths About the U.S. by a poster at CraigsList. Here are some excerpts:

Myth 1: The US was founded on Christian principles. TRUTH: This is incorrect. The Constitution never once mentions a deity, because the Founding Fathers wanted to keep their new country “religion-neutral.” Our Founding Fathers were an eclectic collection of Atheists, Deists, Christians, Freemasons and Agnostics.

George Washington, the Father of our country, and John Adams (Second President of the USA) CLEARLY stated in the 1796 Treaty of Tripoli: “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion.” . . . James Madison, original mastermind of our Constitution, was an Atheist to the core who loved skewering Christianity.

In 1785 he wrote, “What have been [Christianity’s] fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.”

Thomas Jefferson, who sat down and authored The Declaration of Independence, rarely missed an opportunity to laugh at Christianity. In a letter to John Adams in 1823, he wrote: “The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus…will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”

Other myths that the article debunks are that Conservatives are patriotic while Liberals are un-American, that the U.S. media has a liberal bias, that the U.S. leads the world in virtually all socioeconomic indicators and therefore doesn’t need any improvement, and that the U.S. loves to help other countries.

Something tells me that while helpful, this article will be just another shot in the culture wars -- the propaganda war between Conservatives and Liberals will continue to rage fiercely. However, I still maintain that if there is anything as a preponderance of factual truth -- as opposed to ideological rhetoric -- it favors the Liberals. If only we could harness its power as well as the Conservatives.