Without the ability to control and manipulate students, progressives are like Pavlov ringing a bell; only they are the ones left salivating to the anticipation of mass indoctrination. The core responsibility of public education is to provide a functional skill set for our children, to fully prepare those who will seek further enrichment beyond graduation, and to instinctively foster well-adjusted, productive members of society. Unfortunately for the guardians of good intentions, ever since the 1950’s Marxist agitators like Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers realized the best manner in which to topple America – our fierce independent spirit, economic prowess and Judeo-Christian values – was not by brute force but rather by steadily poisoning the national pipeline of public education, generations of impressionable minds, with spoon-fed, anti-American propaganda. And judging by the dysfunctional state of modern academia where liberal educators now overwhelmingly outnumber their conservative counterparts by a 12-1 margin, I’m sad to report “Project Assimilation” is succeeding.
The incessant onslaught from social conditioning leaves a trail of carnage far greater than any singular battle or standing army. How else could you convince millions or voters and a majority of millennials that America is an evil empire built upon unrivaled injustice; that capitalism is the root of our problems instead of a transcendent engine of discovery, an economic ladder of opportunity, to liberate mankind from the ransomed dependency of unchecked government? How else could any American justify silencing free speech in our communities, let alone physically attacking intellectual diversity in our supposed institutions of higher learning…key cogs of any civilized society built upon human discourse and the natural dichotomy of competing ideas? I don’t need to bathe my senses in a filtered pool of mass conformity to realize the bubbles are America’s last breaths. And I sure don’t need to kneel before the altar of Howard Zinn to be baptized by half-truths beneath the sanctimonious drivel of progressive brain surgeons. I just need to breathe and think for myself without the euthanized consent of Big Brother.
The left’s opposition to Betsy DeVos goes far beyond contested credentials and the informal grammar of “tweets”. Her confirmation as Secretary of Education is a tangible threat to their monopoly on the minds of future voters. When educational excellence becomes the bell curve of mediocrity and behavioral problems become the gold standard of appeasement, why shouldn’t parents reserve the right to reallocate their tax dollars for the private instruction of their children? People’s hard-earned paychecks aren’t signed permission slips granting moonlighting political advocates the means to abolish the occupational integrity of objective learning. They now represent the voided vouchers of public trust in government.
Have you ever asked yourself who writes your child’s textbooks, investigated the publishers political associations or wondered what was the true genesis of the Common Core curriculum? I can assure you it’s by no means a coincidence or the ongoing subject matter of a PBS investigation. When a public educator stomps on the American flag in the classroom or zealously demonstrates a mock assassination of the President, it’s of little surprise when God is expelled for Right Wing “extremism” or a boy exercising his First Amendment rights is sent home for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat. The fact students as young as elementary school are now being berated by teachers for not supporting Democratic candidates and/or liberal views is as disgraceful as it is abusive. There is madness and then there are publicly funded lies contributing to an ideological coup d’état: more commonly known as sedition or treason.
Do not believe for one moment the same radicalized forces willing to tear down monuments in a mad rush of misappropriation, including those so-called cultured celebrities openly cursing and threatening the President on national TV like rabid animals, would not hesitate in punishing conservative viewpoints, solely defining racism as white supremacy, replacing our national flag or allowing the government to seize property in the name of ‘common good’. Mob justice born from cultivated hate has little concern with individual rights, moral objectivity or due process. Marxism’s goal is revolution through conditioned ignorance, a perceived state of perpetual victimization, to replace the supposed injustice of economic inequality with a politically oppressive, totalitarian regime. In essence, the liberty to achieve and believe as you please is stiffled so “the people” can be better controlled by an elite ruling class, or more profoundly, a singular despot. It is, by definition, the very anti-thesis of human evolution and America’s founding charter: our desire to think, feel and prosper according to our own unique gifts without undue interference or hostility.
My goal is not to disregard or pardon America’s historical transgressions for those are cultural scars, indelible reminders, of how far we have progressed as a nation. My goal is remind “We the People” that the Constitution, and not the flawed cultural norms of any era, provided the blueprint for overcoming our most daunting challenges and blatant injustices. For the 1.6% of Americans that owned slaves during the height of the Antebellum period, how many textbooks laud the over half a million whites who suffered and/or died to end human bondage? Do they mention or label Portugal as rampant “racists” accountable for importing 5 million black slaves to toil in their Brazilian gold mines; a number 15 times greater than those servants transported to America? How much credit is given to those Northern evangelical Christians who spearheaded the movement to both topple human bondage and secure suffrage for blacks? Is there any mention of how 46% of Democrats, compared to only 18% of Republicans, opposed a woman’s right to vote some 50 years later and therefore attempted to filibuster a formal vote on the 19th Amendment before its ultimate ratification in 1920? And lastly, were “Native” Americans not “nomadic” tribes who displaced/conquered other settlers, who slaughtered each other in droves over “territory” and who routinely enslaved enemies or engaged in slave trading? Or perhaps I should complain my non-native American “privilege” does not include free land, tax exemptions or a complimentary college education despite engaging in such historical depravity.
Contrary to the bland rhetoric of seasoned revisionists, history was never intended to be a politically correct menu of partisan delicacies passed around among pompous critics. It is but a vigilant reminder of the innate fallibility of man and our imperfect legacy as a global society. Whereas older generations endeavor to never forget about ravages of war, poverty or the threat of Communism, younger generations are endeavoring to forget everything history has taught us; most notably, that America was born from the ashes of tyranny and the creeping censorship of blind subjugation. And what exactly has leftist academia learned from the mass oppression and murder of dissidents under Stalin, Hitler, Mao or Castro? What textbooks or lesson plans have been adopted to warn our sons and daughters about an Islamic creed that still justifies and contributes to 1400 years of bloodshed, intolerance and misogyny? If you choose to label capitalism as the gospel of greed, please inform Cloward & Piven that capitalism has liberated far more from poverty – built more bridges, hospitals and universities – than the noble bread lines of socialism. The inevitable inequality of achievement, differing degrees of success born from the unequal application of ambition and sacrifice, is by no means an indictment of social or economic injustice. The best thing to happen to old, lingering Marxists is naïve, young millennials allergic to the aroma of common sense.
Instead of reaffirming America’s founding charter – those values, liberties and innovative discoveries that have repeatedly transcended modern civilization – progressive educators are promoting hate and conformity to exact political supremacy: i.e., think as we do, Government is your master, entitlements are your birthright. Whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, there is no excuse for disparaging intellectual diversity or suffocating a universal beacon of hope and liberty. The quickest way to handicap a child and ensure the demise of a free nation is to hijack the very tool of their empowerment…education. If students lack the critical thinking skills to decipher historical context from modern exploitation, dissect political propaganda from non-partisan prudence, how can any civilization forge a brave new path that both evolves from the struggles of its past without destroying the ideological cornerstones of its future?
The nonnegotiable function of our educational system is not to fund or streamline militant radicalization, the adopted anti-American indoctrination camps of our youth, but to provide a quality, competitive curriculum that fosters an ingrained knowledge, if not an undying appreciation, of the timeless ideals America was founded upon: freedom, limited government, faith, hard work, accountability and duty. Honoring America does not require inciting division or demonizing dissent to suffocate the last gasps of individuality and independent thought. It rightfully demands honoring our youth, their parents, and those responsible teachers who still believe political terrorists have no place in our classrooms.
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