[rlmorel]

What concerns me at an even more basic level, and I said this on another post today:

I said I thought there are only two choices for the behavior of a bunch of fellow cadets posing with him while he displays a large “X” on his hand he is holding up (presumably to signify Malcolm X) that they were either too cowardly to report him, or they are of a like mind.

After some reflection, I realized is a third choice, which frightens me even more:

This could be normal for these people entering West Point. They see this embrace of Che Guevara and all the Communist and Marxist principles that go along with it as completely natural and normal, with no need to report on it. Is it possible the instructors and other senior people at West Point see it that way too?

Have I been out that long?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Our entire society sees socialism and communism more favorably than freedom and capitalism, while they enjoy the abundance and wealth created by the latter. So it would not surprise me at all that your third choice is what we are facing. The good news is that my nephew just got out of the Corps and he didn't see anything like this in USMC.

We are reaping the harvest of the "long march through the institutions" proposed by German student activist Alfred Willi Rudolf "Rudi" Dutschke in the 1960s. He proposed a strategy to establish the conditions for revolution: subvert society by infiltrating institutions such as the professions. "Long march" refers to the prolonged struggle of the Chinese communists, which included a physical Long March of their army across China led by Mao. Italian communist Antonio Gramsci influenced Dutschke's "thinking". Gramsci, while imprisoned by Mussolini, wrote about cultural hegemony.