If they’d gone a day further in history there, the students would gain a real practical lesson in why the 2nd Amendment is really about the People’s right, not some nebulous, ridiculous “collective right.” Can’t have the kiddies getting that message.
Which is exactly why they didn’t I think... (actually I know).
BTW, that was almost 10 years ago so you can imagine how much worse it has been since.
A part of me really feels sorry for the blacks that wallow in the anger and ignorance that liberals have surrounded them with. They are virtually a people without a country. They are born here and are groomed to hate it and all the possibilities available to them.
I never really had a conversion, when I became aware of politics in the real world (not in the classroom) I was pretty much a fully formed conservative.
That was when I was ten, and there was one thing that had set me down that path at that age.
It was the liberal democrat treatment of the military.
My dad was in the navy, and when I became aware of how liberal democrats (and the people who supported and elected them) viewed military service, I was angry. The things they said about the military and those who served in it made me boil inside. They were talking about my father and the fathers of all of my friends. They were good men who were doing what they thought was the right thing to do. I viewed the the military as an honorable calling, and liberals viewed it as evil.
So, as I began following politics, I was 100% on the side of the likes of Goldwater, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, etc. (Let’s not go down the path of whether they were really conservatives or not, I viewed it as a choice between Nixon and Humphrey, Nixon and McGovern, Ford and Carter, and so on...)
But, I did have a serious conversion of sorts that removed my forbearance towards and tolerance of liberalism. Up until about the time Clinton entered the public scene, I didn’t see how destructive, corrosive, and evil liberalism is.
It was the treatment of Joseph McCarthy that was responsible for my next stage ofI thought McCarthy was a bad character, a black mark on our nation.
I was told that in school, Walter Cronkite and the media said so, and what I saw in the newpapers, magazines and on television all unanimously supported that point of view. I didn’t question it, I just accepted it as fact because everyone seemed to have reached consensus...why doubt it?
When I read Ann Coulter’s book “Treason”, I was perplexed. I was puzzled why her account of the famous encounter between Joseph Welch and Joseph McCarthy was so completely and diametrically different from the accounts I had grown up with and been taught.
It wasn’t just a little different, it was COMPLETELY different. So I did what the Internet allows you to do these days: I researched. I obtained the transcripts of the actual hearings, and read them.
Ann Coulter was spot on in her characterization of that hearing, and the others as well. After I read that, I began to read everything that didn’t appear to be completely slanted against McCarthy. I read three separate books on Venona, and then capped it off with the book that was, for me, the most important political book I have read in my life.
“Witness”, by Whittaker Chambers.
I was completely astounded by that book, and it explained a lot of things for me. It explained why the Left viewed Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy the way they did, and why all three of them, Chambers, Nixon, and McCarthy were villified and slandered by a poisonous and biased media.
What is perhaps most disturbing of all is to see that the Left practices the exact same form of character assassination warfare today that it practiced fifty years ago against Whittaker Chambers. Exactly.
I admit freely that it was a disillusioning time for me. To realize that all my teachers, people I had no reason to distrust, fed me a steady diet of falsehood regarding Joseph McCarthy. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever.
The good thing about it is that I now view everything political with a grain of salt, which I think is healthy. I am also now completely biased towards the right of the political spectrum. I have no use for the Left.
This was cemented for me last March at the Gathering of Eagles down in Washington, D.C.
I saw with my OWN eyes what happened that day, and I watched the news with ten other people afterwards, and was stupefied by the way the media presented it on television. Everyone in the room, all of us who had actually BEEN there and seen what went on, looked at each other in disbelief. I will say that there was not one person who was surprised by it, but...that didn’t mean we had to accept it. That was the first time I had seen on my own, the bias of the media.
Bottom Line: Liberalism is the politics of people who do not think. As a liberal, you must accept what is spoon-fed to you, and the liberal community welcomes you with open arms. You become part of a large group with a purpose. It is all good.
It is all good until that day when you realize that the politics you supported isn’t really meant to help you.
Those politics of Liberalism are meant to help The State, not The Citizen.