Again, I didn’t bring up leftist thought, you did.

After you conveniently parroted a series of Leftist ideas regarding the Founding Fathers and early American history, including the value judgments that are fairly standard from that side of the aisle. Sorry, I’m just a simple man, so if someone shows up at my door with blond hair and blue eyes, speaking German, I assume he’s German.

I’m not a “leftist” if that word indeed has any meaning anymore.

This would have more credibility if you’d ever posted something here that wasn’t pretty much by-the-book Leftism. I’ll take your word for it but it’s not as if many of the topics discussed at PJM don’t offer opportunities for a person who isn’t a Leftist to support either the conclusions reached by the various authors (which often, obviously, oppose Leftist political preferences on, e.g. school choice) or to offer up alternatives that really do go beyond some of the traditional dichotomies.

especially no interest in hearing such a history from you, a rather flamboyantly ignorant individual.

Yeah, I’m “flamboyantly ignorant”. OK, of course you would say that and at least you have enough understanding of the performative aspects of debate to make the accusation part of your rhetoric. The thing is that in the context of a public forum, the posters themselves don’t really get to decide that, now do they? Who knows who, if anyone, is reading this, but they are the ones who decide who is ignorant, whether flamboyantly or not, and who isn’t. I like my odds.