If you are correct, Gideon7, that copywriters and art directors at ad agencies are left wingers, that explains the illogic and historical ignorance of Ogilvy’s “history is written by the winners” campaign. Lefties generally know little history and that which they think they know is mostly propaganda.

Winners write history, but so do the losers. I myself have read several histories of WWII by German authors including Albert Speer’s “Inside the Third Reich.” How many American histories of the Vietnam War are in print today and available in public libraries? The Confederate States of America lost their Civil War 150 years ago and haven’t shut up about it yet. The author of “history is written by the winners” was George Orwell (Eric Blair) who fought on the losing side in the Spanish Civil War and wrote “Homage to Catalonia” about it. He also had a number of acute remarks about advertising; he said it was the sound of a stick rattling inside a swill bucket. Wonder if Ogilvy is offering their clients that quote from Orwell as they do the one in their ads?