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Another technique is to watch and listen for a chance to bring history into focus. As a history witness for 71 years myself, I always looked for times to point out to my daughter, whom we home schooled for 12 years, I always pointed out things that didn't fit with reality and were being shaped by the media. Everyone needs to be exposed to "1984" and "Animal Farm" just to understand what is going on as we speak. Why did the definitions of words need to change in 1984? How equal were the pigs in Animal Farm? Kids feel the pigs were making sense until they ended up as slaves for the pigs.

I lived through the "50's and 60's, so I could tell the stories how the Democrats were the only ones in the KKK and blocking freedom for the Blacks. The first 20-30 black Congressmen were all Republicans. How did the Dems convince Blacks that they were on their side as they were the Grand Cyclops down at the Lodge? The biggest problem Republicans have is short memories.

Pelosi started to select statues and busts to remove from congress until she noticed they were all Dems and there would be no Dem representation if she completed the removal. There were NO Republicans that owned slaves.All the South was Dems and in favor of Slavery.

I took German in HS just to be different and not take Spanish like everyone else. My teacher was in the war and lived in Germany. He taught us that Hitler was a progressive. NAZI is translated as "National Socialist Workers Party". Nazi's took over everything even though they were less than 20% of the population. He warned how easy it was to gain control before any alarms went off in the population and how easy it was to go against Christian ideals with no push back.

History is ALWAYS relevant to what is happening now. It's all been done before, we are just too close to the subject to notice. Don't allow your children to feel like "someone else will take care of it". Once it's gone, it wont come back without bloodshed, most likely.