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Why Leftists Think America is a Failed Experiment
American Thinker ^ | 16 Jun, 2021 | Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Posted on 06/16/2021 4:05:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Leftist extremism isn’t apparent to people on that end of the spectrum. They truly believe they are on “the right side of history.”

Public education indoctrination has aided this fallacy. From K-12, students have been taught (since I was a kid) that humans have destroyed the environment, slavery was started at America’s birth, and that “history is doomed to repeat itself.” Add in the demonization of Columbus, colonization, and our entire history is being skewed to make students hate themselves and their heritage.

Many teachers go into the field because they “want to change lives.” They watched movies like Dead Poet’s Society and thought they could be Mr. Keating. They hunger to “save the planet” and “end suffering,” through their work.

Yes, teaching can be a noble cause, but this overinflated sense of purpose often leads many to let their egos take control. They see a wildfire and scream about climate change, despite the fact that most wildfires are caused by arson or healthy natural processes. They teach the horrors of slavery withholding the facts that black tribal leaders in African sold other Africans to British and American slave traders and that slavery existed long before Roman times. They demonize white explorers and historical figures because they themselves don’t know how to properly cope with the weight of their own history and so they project this onto others.

All of this has been exploited in recent years. The corporate media and socialist democrats have seized the opportunity to capitalize off of division and misunderstanding.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 06/16/2021 4:05:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!. Isaiah 5:20


2 posted on 06/16/2021 4:05:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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If America is a failed experiment, it is because socialist/Marxists leftist have been undermining the foundations for the last 100 years.


3 posted on 06/16/2021 4:09:09 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: MtnClimber

Leftists have been warping American society since 1920, since progressives Wilson and Dewey, 16A, 17A, 19A and the Fed, and since Frankfurt School (of cultural Marxism) operatives immigrated here in the 1940’s.


4 posted on 06/16/2021 4:10:42 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: MtnClimber
They don't think about it. In fact, they don't think at all.

They are just following the communist narrative.

5 posted on 06/16/2021 4:11:41 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: MtnClimber

The leftists are doing a good job of making America a failed experiment by sowing the seeds of destruction from within.


6 posted on 06/16/2021 4:13:59 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: kosciusko51
If America is a failed experiment, it is because socialist/Marxists leftist have been undermining the foundations for the last 100 years.

This ^

7 posted on 06/16/2021 4:15:26 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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8 posted on 06/16/2021 4:21:27 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left Is not screaming , you are doing it wrong..)
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To: MtnClimber

Leftists don’t see a failed experiment...They see an opportunity to take the whole thing over and their moron friends are going to help them....


9 posted on 06/16/2021 4:56:34 AM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: MtnClimber

America is the freest, wealthiest, and strongest nation in the history of the world. Because of this our enemies have never succeeded in bringing us down.

There is one flaw in America, and it is the racial divide. Slavery, Jim Crow, and the current gaps in well-being are real blemishes on America. The left sees this, and they see this flaw as the one gap in America’s armor that if pushed hard enough will destroy us.


10 posted on 06/16/2021 5:06:19 AM PDT by Renfrew
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I think America's major flaw is that it was destined to fail when 51% of the people realized they could vote to pick the pocket of the other 49%. Franklin and de Tocqueville warned us this would eventually happen.

What might have surprised Franklin and de Tocqueville is how long the American experiment of ordered liberty lasted. Indeed, for a very long time, America was the world's freest, most prosperous nation on earth.
11 posted on 06/16/2021 5:33:05 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: MtnClimber
Leftists don't want to be rich, they want you to be poor.

Leftists don't want to be successful, they want you to fail.

The entire idea of America has always been the antithesis of this morbidly miserable, chronically dependent group. Humoring them is a mistake. Allowing them to lead is suicide.

12 posted on 06/16/2021 5:59:24 AM PDT by conservativeimage (The mask is the boot stamping on the human face forever.)
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To: Dan in Wichita
America was the world's freest, most prosperous nation on earth.

It's sad that statement can be uttered but it is 100% true. We (the generations born after WWII) failed to carry the American dream forward. 'We' should have stopped this nonsense in 1965 when it began.

13 posted on 06/16/2021 6:20:57 AM PDT by eeriegeno (A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State....)
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To: Dan in Wichita

At a more basic level, allowing people who pay no taxes to vote is a recipe for disaster; that is why the Founding Fathers didn’t allow it. In their day, the taxpayers were landowners; today (especially with income taxes) we have a much wider pool; we should still only allow taxpayers to vote.

The worst parts of this country are where the most non-contributors vote; it is inevitable.


14 posted on 06/16/2021 7:07:45 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: MtnClimber

By definition I am the smartest, most able person on earth. If there is a person in my country who has a better outcome than me then my country is unfair, and must be taken down. </sarc>


15 posted on 06/16/2021 8:21:59 AM PDT by nagant
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To: kosciusko51

^ this 💯


16 posted on 06/16/2021 8:34:50 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: kearnyirish2

And women.

They knew what they were doing when this started and it got corrupted.

Of course you know you are dreaming to think the vote will ever be restricted in such ways.


17 posted on 06/16/2021 9:01:25 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: MtnClimber

Leftists are a failed experiment their party is dead ever sane person rejects their idiotic ideas even countries in Europe who tried it have failed it has nothing of worth to offer except to it’s leaders the 1984 makers.


18 posted on 06/16/2021 9:30:00 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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Why Leftists Think America is a Failed Experiment

They are right.

Just not right about the way the story ends.

When we build back better, we won't make a lot of the mistakes we made before. And, as a result, the leftist population will be a lot smaller.

19 posted on 06/16/2021 9:34:11 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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To: Sequoyah101

On a local level the vote is already restricted in such ways; here in NJ wealthy areas prefer very high property taxes because it keeps the area “clean” - and they can buy their way out of low-income housing requirements. If they have any rental properties, the rents are very high due to those high taxes - and while I don’t rent, I personally view a paying tenant as an indirect taxpayer.


20 posted on 06/17/2021 3:54:28 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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