Truth in Government

Today telling the truth has largely disappeared from public discourse. Let’s use basic history as an example. Learning history in school was the norm during the period 1952-1969, the formative years up through my graduation from college. I received a detailed education in public schools of our founding and principles, American history, and world history dating back to antiquity. As part of a Navy family, I went to school all over the country: Virginia, Maryland twice, California, Illinois, and Nebraska. History teaching was consistent everywhere, including hard truths about slavery here and around the world.

It is true that slavery survived the founding. But the founders’ core principles as outlined boldly in the Declaration itself that “all men are created equal,” created the very foundation for the end of slavery later and the end of racism in 1964 with the passage of the Equal Rights Act. Readers can learn about the lies of the 1619 project in Peter Woods’ 1620, A Critical Response to the 1619 Project or Mary Grabar’s Debunking the 1619 Project.

How could such false history have gained such traction in our society? It is because liars are promoting false history for a political agenda to fundamentally change America into a totalitarian socialist state. Lying about our history is the key to overthrowing America. If the majority can be convinced that they are living in an evil country, worse than others and with a system that systematically harms Blacks and others, it will be easier to convince them to throw off our Constitution and replace it with socialism. Socialism has been tried and the result is always death, killing over 200 million people to date. Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We must not go down that path.

I received a detailed education in public schools of our founding and principles, American history, and world history dating back to antiquity

I can date with some precision the turn in our affairs here. In 1970 I took an American History course in high school taught by a recent Princeton graduate whose family had a large business so he didn't need to work. He was allowed to revise the curriculum to focus on the role of immigration in American history. As a consequence I learned nothing about American history, and anything I have learned since is from reading books - which is ok. The indoctrination was met with an autonomic reaction that has made me resistant to the entire socialist view of history ever since. So the indoctrination in one of our leading elite universities had started by say 1966.

Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Ping out to the Daniel Greenfield Ping! List.

An unusual ping! out to everyone for a new writer at American Greatness, Brent Ramsey. A former CAPT who retired from the US Navy, this entire article should be read and shared by FReepers.

It posits a simple question - why does the federal government lie? and works from there to important conclusions.

Lying about our history is just the start. Whether it is the mainstream media, the social media giants, academia, Hollywood, or corporate America, these institutions lie about everything. They lie that climate change is a mortal threat to civilization. It’s not. In fact, there has been zero warming for the last eight years. Has the media reported that?

They lie that gun violence is out of control. It is not. Americans are safer from guns 2023 more so than at any time in our history. Your chances of being killed by a gun is lower by orders of magnitude less than your chances of getting hit by lightning.

They lie about abortion involving women’s health when it is really the murder of children in the womb. They lie that the nation has secure borders as millions illegally enter our country including terrorists and drug runners. They lie that the rich pay no taxes despite the U.S. having the most regressive tax regime in the world where our richest citizens pay a disproportionate percentage of the nation’s taxes.

They even lie about basic biology, exploiting the sad plight of victims of gender dysphoria. In recent years there has been a 4000% increase in young females claiming to be the opposite sex. Is no one in our vaunted institutions -- academia or the media -- interested in how this could be happening?

They lie about the police being murderous brutes when the truth is that overwhelmingly the police are honest, brave, and fair public servants doing a thankless job to keep our citizenry safe from criminals.

There is no Ping! List for Brent Ramsey - yet. Articles like this may well lead to a Ping! list being created.

Excellent and well worth your time.

Texas Booster

“Learning history in school was the norm during the period 1952-1969,”

Didn’t read the whole thing. That citation was all I needed. The progressives saw the writing on the wall with the McCarthy hearings and adopted a long term strategy we are now all witnessing effects thereof in real time.

Government learned over a century ago not to tell the truth; it’s far past time everyone admitted the obvious on both counts and then maybe - just maybe - enough people will find the fortitude to do something about it.

But in light of the weaponization of government with assets - human and tech - to target us, the actions must be guerrilla-like, and should have begun years ago.

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