Posted on 07/07/2024 4:34:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A recently published book gives the history of leftism in America, identifies the damage it’s done to our institutions, and offers concrete remedial steps.
During July, the month we celebrate America’s independence, we must be extra vigilant and victorious against those seeking our dependence. In Winning America’s Second Civil War: Progressivism’s Authoritarian Threat, Where It Came From, and How to Defeat It, research professor Jeffrey E. Paul promotes America’s independence and exposes the left’s long war to make Americans dependent on an elite, socialist autocracy. This exceptionally important book may have escaped many people’s notice.
Winning America’s Second Civil War begins by exposing in meticulous detail the origin of the progressive infestation into academia in the mid- to late- 1800s. American progressivism—referring to a term taken from Germany’s Progress Party—began with American doctoral students studying in Germany and learning about the concept of the superiority of government control over individual liberty.
Upon earning their degrees, these indoctrinated students then returned to the United States to begin and/or teach in doctoral programs, such as programs in social studies, humanities, journalism, economics, and law at Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the like. As Winning America’s Second Civil War explains: “The first American doctoral programs were founded by men whose views were the antithesis of the ones that animated the American Revolution and Civil War.”
Sadly, the progressive mindset revealed in Winning America’s Second Civil War gave rise to communist and fascist governments and the historical destruction wrought by socialism in general. And, unfortunately, a socialist history has been slowly but steadily unfurled across America since the late 1800s.
Today, the socialists’ drive to enslave Americans is exceptionally strong thanks to an education system that begins indoctrination at the earliest grade levels. As so many authors have noted, students are being indoctrinated...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The first thing we have to do is call them what they are.
Identify each EVIL anti-individual, anti-freedom, anti-life TOTALITARIAN and their collective.
Marxist, communists, socialists, they are the people who claim we are a democracy. Democracy is mob rule. Democracy sounds like democrat. The title gives legitimacy to the democrat party. They are unamerican. They are our enemy.
This exceptionally important book may have escaped many people’s notice.
“Winning America’s Second Civil War: Progressivism’s Authoritarian Threat, Where It Came From, and How to Defeat It,” by research professor, Jeffrey E. Paul, exposes the left’s long war to make Americans dependent on an elite, socialist autocracy.
Bkmk
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