[Ohioan]

For almost sixty years, that this writer has been personally involved in fighting against them, those seeking to undermine the very continuity of America--to submerge America in some form of "World Government"--have employed devious emotional subterfuges, to undermine our very will to continue as free and independent. This attack is the subject of the March feature at Truth Based Logic.

Conservatives need to be very aware of the contribution that this movement, formerly led by Norman Cousins, then Editor of the Saturday Review, has made to the present corruption of American education. It has not been the only factor; but it has been a significant one.

[Ohioan]

Incidentally, I had a rather grovelling letter from Cousins, back in the early 1960s, in which he dances around an implied admission that he had no effective answer to my line of attack. I do not post it, because it would make no sense unless I posted the article that led to it, which was directed at what was going on at that particular time.

The reason that there was no follow up involves other people now dead. But the article, linked here, employs the same basic argument that neutralized Cousins before some large audiences in 1961.

William Flax

[Ohioan]

Perhaps I should make it clearer just how relevant this is to the era of Obama & his efforts to deny American exceptionalism!

That is a reflection of what Norman Cousins preached to American educators, in traveling back & forth across America in the 1950s & 1960s, speaking to mass meetings of NEA affiliates, as well as college assembies. His recipe for accomplishing his goal of "surrender by subterfuge" (my term for it), was to shift education from teaching how peoples differed, to focusing on ways we were all alike. In short, but in functional substance, convincing the youth, that traditional America was not worth fighting for.

This, effective, "lets pretend" that we are all alike, was also a major contributor to the Teddy Kennedy sabotage of our immigration policy in 1965.

William Flax

[Ohioan]

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[subterfuge]

Surrender by ‘subterfuge’—never!