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History.
A lot of people support their ideological views by popular history, which is full of biases.
Yes, but it is not fixed by just randomly reading history. Many historians have political agendas, it is unfortunately a profession like that. The main reason is governments, systems needing historical legitimacy. So historians end up being loyal or opposition.