The truth isn ' t one easily taught to young kids that the first Thanksgiving was a payment by a local tribe to help in the slaughter of a competing tribe , and it was a deal done because the Pilgrims were starving from their agricultural inabilities , and had what was magic to the Indians firearms . <| sep |> Make sure you make a trip to White Sands if your in Alamogordo . <| sep |> Why do you equate a libertarian with the left ? They are diametrically opposed . I actually attended grad school at the university Prof Cowen teaches . most of my professors were very leftist and would often make fun of him for his crazy libertarian views . The economics department there gets most of its money from the Kochs to fund their little libertarian reactionary institute .