Teach them about gulags and Communism. The voters in one of the 2 major Americans openly advocate for gulags and Communism.
And about China’s Red Guard, and how the hysteria to destroy spiraled from destroying monuments to defining grass as offensive and groups of people, including school children, were sent out to pull up grass in parks and gardens.
Back in the 1980s, when I was a schoolchild in a different part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, we had a “social studies” curriculum. In first grade, we learned to respect certain famous forbears, especially Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Robert Edward Lee, Thomas Johnathan Jackson (”Stonewall”), and the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis followed. In fourth grade, we covered Virginia history from the Powhatan confederacy to the Confederate States of America and discussed slavery extensively and repeatedly.
In the other component of the curriculum, the intermittent “passport to the world” program, we learned about other countries. These countries with few exceptions were either allies of the United States of America or brutally repressed Communist nations. We also participated in “duck-and-cover” drills in case ostensibly of imminent nuclear attack from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, these drills ceased, but they instilled a sense of national solidarity and profound fear of the Communist menace. According to schoolteachers then, the Soviet Union and other Communist countries, ever stronger and smarter than the Americans, sought to exploit any weakness in America, and only American military might just barely preserved freedom for our allies around the world. If ever any individual sailor even briefly flinched from his duty, then the Soviets almost certainly would visit disaster upon America. And the schoolteachers envisioned that many of us boys in time would join the Navy or another branch of the military.
Even after the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Iron Curtain, the existing generation of schoolteachers continued to instill a fierce opposition to all forms of Communism for several years. But when I converse with my youngest sibling, I find that she either never learned or quickly forgot the genocidal horrors of Communist countries throughout the previous century.
Nowadays, American schoolchildren celebrate, emulate, and revere the Chinese Communist Party and its many accomplishments. I wish that we could teach our children something of the horrors of the previous century as some form of socialism lies behind the large majority of the worst episodes of mass death that this world experienced. But even last year, when schools existed and operated, few teenagers even recognized Mao Zedung as the most lethal dictator in the history of the world. Today, Americans largely embrace the Maoist revolution and insurrection unfolding in our streets. At this time next year, America will be a fully Communist country, allied firmly with the People’s Republic of China, our overlord, and Americans, especially young adults, will embrace and celebrate the end of human freedom here and almost everywhere else on this planet.
Or, if everything happens perfectly right again, then we might reelect very narrowly Donald Trump and thus save the lives of countless ungrateful Americans from the Communist hordes for another four years.