Oh, they really don’t need to bother. They are about to get first-hand experience.
It's the public education system that has brought ON the downfall (if Trump loses) of our nation.
Ship them all off the North Korea. A couple of months of forced hard labor will set them right.
There are enough members of the Putin Fan Club here — convinced he’s a swell fellow & leading me to believe millennials are not the only problem.
If they had any clue you wouldn’t be seeing them in Che Guevara t-shirts so often.
They should be blaming wide spread K-12 and colleges/universities
The issue is really deception. The next generation has not been coached well on the dangers we were in in the cold war and what happened behind the Iron curtain.
Growing up in a public school in Bangor Maine, when we were taught about communism, it was on rare occasions and often the commies were treated in a positive life.
EXAMPLE: Vietnam war. I don't think we even were taught anything about atrocities committed by the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. We mostly heard only that American GIs were killing civilians and that the South Vietnamese were persecuting their own people. While its true RSVN had a kleptocratic and corrupt government that needed reform the North Vietnamese were far far worse and far more brutal!
The teachers made it look like the North was really morally superior to the south and the US soldiers.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE: we were taught in high school the old lie that the USSR never practiced true communism. A deceptive lie to hide their failure. It failed because it wasn't true communism, if it did, it would've been true communism.
Also, when dealing with the cold war, there is little said of the aggressions of the USSR and Warsaw pact, the US and NATO are portrayed more as the aggressors egging on Russia to nuke everyone.
Rarely of course did we bring up communism vs capitalism, and we were never ever taught that Fascism like under Hitler, Mussolini and Franco is a form of Socialism. At least Franco toned it down a bit.
Of course most of our info about communism came from pop culture and Hollywood. The reds were the good guys, the American backed regimes in Central America, Southeast Asia and elsewhere were poor helpless and exploited.
Nikita Khrushchev wasn't kidding when he said the USSR would bury the USA without firing a shot.
Actually, they LOVE democracy because it is only a matter of time before it turns into socialism (Tocqueville) and then totalitarianism where individuals who DARE to “think” outside their allowed box will be eliminated (Solzhenitsyn/Dostoevsky).
There is no individualism in ANY worldview apart from Christianity which created the concepts of Free Will and Individual natural rights from God only. It is the most rational religion because it is in line with Natural Law (subsidiarity inside the Natural Family (which is the ONLY religion which gave motherhood dignity and worth (Catholic Canon)).
Everyone has faith (a religion)-—just SOME faith is more RATIONAL than others-—and Christianity created The Age of Reason and US Constitution, Modern Science, the Mind of Newton (A Creationist) and the Minds of Tesla (father Orthodox Priest) and Wright Bros. (Father a Bishop is a church).
There is no compromise with Evil (Devil) and with their baby-killing, sodomy, pederasty, misogynistic, effeminate “cultures”- which promote perversions and evil, irrational use of the human body—which destroys Reason, Science (Natural Laws).
Communism was invented by the NWO globalists (Lucifereans) to destroy the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church from within (totally infiltrated now along with all mainstream Protestant churches paid and supported by Soros/Rothschild devil worshippers. They took over all of culture (Hollywood first) so children can NEVER think like a Washington, Adams or Jefferson. They program desires, beliefs/worldviews into YOUR children. Now mother and father have little influence—which is where individualism and agency ORIGINATE.
Children thus programmed, will have ignorant, tribal minds where contradictions are “good” and “normal” and Slavery is Freedom and boys are girls for radical egalitarianism—to reduce everyone to interchangeable drones (objects) with NO IDENTITY—NO biological connections, NO History so “Utopia” can be created for them in their ARTIFICIAL WORLDS where dependency is embedded and the inability to think critically (integrate the brain how God Designed)...just non-thinking “bots” for the State/Corporate gods.
We are ONLY a Constitutional Republic-—the MOST Free system in the history of man. The US Constitution has to be destroyed so the Marxists can kill the individuals, esp. the useless eaters and return the masses back to the serf/peasant/slave days which lasted MUCH LONGER than the little brief City on a Hill.
THe key word here is “completing”. They started taking over the educational system 40 years ago and now have a generation of teachers teaching the next generation of teachers how to swallow their propaganda.
Critical thinking and history have been bred out of the system.
Some millenials may be capable of “boning up” but most of them have never been taught how to, and all of them have been taught to accept what they hear from the pop culture and media/Hollywood figures who, of course, possess tremendous expertise and wisdom when it comes to world affairs...(aka “Cher”)...
No /s. This is a little sarcastic but pretty close to the mark.
Well the millennials got their faces slapped when their hero Sen. Sanders betrayed them.
When I was in High-School in Florida, it was required by the State that all schools teach a class on “Americanism vs Communism.”
Why ? They have been spoon fed communism as early as grade school : )
They’re too busy on social media.
I’m old enough to remember when public schools taught American and world history, as well as Civics.
We learned how our government is supposed to work (tricameral / checks & balances) and why it’s the best system possible; we also learned of the evil done by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao in world history and current events.
IOW, we were educated about BOTH Jeffersonian democracy and communism; but we were shown WHY the former is good, the latter evil.
That public school teaching has been completely undone and reversed in the past 30 years. Students are not being educated at all. They’ve no clue how our democratic republic is supposed to work, and they think communism is perfectly summed up by a song written by a dead Beatle, therefore it must be cool.
The problem I have with home schooling is that a lot of those students’
parents / teachers are teaching only the basic positives about America’s constitution and the Founding Fathers, history and civics. That’s good, in that the public school Marxist indoctrination is being countered.
But they are failing to teach anything at all about world history or communism, as if they fear any knowledge of the subject might hypnotize their kids into commies.
Every home schooled graduate I have talked with has no clue what the terms “communism” or “socialism” even mean.
The result is these kids are not prepared to fight it, because they cant recognize it when it’s staring them in the face.
Only 1/3 of the colonists wanted to break away from England during the Revolutionary War. Pretty amazing.
Yeah, it’s sort of mind-boggling to me that barely 25 years ago, communism was completely discredited, collapsed, seemingly tossed onto the scrap heap of history on top of fascism, Nazism, etc. But in the interim, history is slowly being rewritten.
Even if the Millennials did in fact know the horrors about Communism, do you really think it would have made much of a difference? As far as I can tell, they’d STILL support it anyways, even if they had enough knowledge on the subject to be scholars and know full well about the horrors.
Karl Marx, if I must remind you, knew quite a bit about the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, certainly enough about them to know full well that it was a bloodbath, and yet not only did he try to enact the exact same disaster that befell the French Revolution and Reign of Terror, he even advocated for doubling down on the bloodshed when Communism takes the helm. And let’s not forget Jean-Paul Sartre, who based on his comments defending the Munich terrorists in the Olympics, actually said that the Revolutionaries in the 1793 “probably didn’t kill enough people.” As far as I can tell, even if people actually do learn from their history, they’ll repeat it anyways. Otherwise, Karl Marx would avoid creating Communism precisely BECAUSE he’d know it would cause mass bloodshed and want to avoid it precisely BECAUSE he knew enough about the French Revolution to know about the massive bloodshed.
“There is only one way of shortening, simplifying, and concentrating the bloodthirsty death-throes of the old society and the bloody birth pangs of the new—revolutionary terror. . . . [...] Once we are at the helm, we shall be obliged to reenact the year 1793. [...] We are pitiless and we ask no pity from you. When our time comes, we shall not conceal terrorism with hypocritical phrases. . . The vengeance of the people will break forth with such ferocity that not even the year 1793 enables us to envisage it. . . .”
Yeah, he most certainly knew enough about the history to accurately state it was a massive bloodbath, yet that knowledge/learning didn’t stop him from wanting to create an even WORSE bloodbath in what is essentially a redo.
How many millennials know that Stalin purposely and intentionally starved 7 million Ukrainians to death in the earl 1930s?
I wonder if it is more or fewer than the 1 in 10 millennials who know what the phrase “separation of powers” means (reported yesterday on some thread here in FR).