WaPo Feels the Need to Cite “National Treasure” to Make Sure You Know What the National Archives Is

I don’t know how much more stupidity I can take.

The WaPo has managed to take one of my favorite childhood movies and utterly insult me with it. The audacity is unreal…

According to the Daily Wire:

The Washington Post resorted to using a Disney movie as a reference in an article explaining the significance of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) with regard to the recent FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home.

The article, titled “Inside Trump’s War on the National Archives,” dug into some of the threats and hate that have reportedly been directed toward NARA in the three weeks since FBI agents raiding Mar-a-Lago and removed a number of boxes of documents that had been stored there.

But while attempting to explain the back-and-forth between the NARA and Trump — who is certainly not the first former president to find himself at odds with the administration over ownership of records — the authors of the article included a reference to Disney’s “National Treasure” in an effort to paint a clearer picture of the Archives.

The Post shared a portion of an internal email from acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall to NARA staffers, which read in part, “NARA has received messages from the public accusing us of corruption and conspiring against the former President, or congratulating NARA for ‘bringing him down.’ Neither is accurate or welcome.”

“The email capped a year-long saga that has embroiled the Archives — widely known for being featured in the 2004 Nicolas Cage movie, ‘National Treasure’ — in a protracted fight with Trump over classified documents and other records that were taken when he left office,” the Post added in the following paragraph.

I honestly find it surprising that it’s still ok to like this movie since it doesn’t make reference to the white, cisgender privilege of the founding fathers…

The fact that the WaPo used it as a reference isn’t even what bothers me. It’s the fact that they knew that it would be necessary.

Curriculums have been watered down and standards for students have been consistently lowered to a point that these are the kinds of results that we’ve come to expect. Ignorance is now the expectation as opposed to the unlikelihood, and it sure as hell isn’t bliss.

Even though it’s a bit of a cliché, I truly believe that “knowledge is power.”

The representatives who vex you from their cushy offices in Washington know what the National Archives does. They’re just counting on that fact that you don’t. That’s why the problems with the education system will never really get fixed. They need you to remain blissfully ignorant. It’s much easier to take advantage of people if they’re unaware of it.

Choose to arm yourselves with truth and knowledge. If enough people do, then we might just have a chance to right the ship.