[MtnClimber]

This is why so many on the left believe that they need use force to make people do the “right” things. They do not believe that they work for us. They believe we are their subjects.

[riverrunner]

Very true

[oldtech]

Better listen to the people who send their children to your schools. Test scores & other things will reveal whether or not your school policies have failed. If parents are having a problem with what their kids are learning at school, then apparently your policies have failed.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

This is the result of Open Society programs. In the view of the "Planners", anyone who opposes their views are facists. They believe that everyone needs to find their own meaning without reference to "truth" and Metaphysics and tested traditional ways of living. In the end, however, they cease to encourage, and become the thing they claim to oppose. A good discussion in this book.

Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West: R.R. Reno

"With compelling insight, R. R. Reno argues that we are witnessing the return of the “strong gods”—the powerful loyalties that bind men to their homeland and to one another. Reacting to the calamitous first half of the twentieth century, our political, cultural, and financial elites promoted open borders, open markets, and open minds. But this never-ending project of openness has hardened into a set of anti-dogmatic dogmas which destroy the social solidarity rooted in family, faith, and nation. While they worry about the return of fascism, our societies are dissolving.

But man will not tolerate social dissolution indefinitely. He longs to be part of a “we”—the fruit of shared loves—which gives his life meaning. The strong gods will return, Reno warns, in one form or another. Our task is to attend to those that, appealing to our reason as well as our hearts, inspire the best of our traditions. Otherwise, we shall invite the darker gods whose return our open society was intended to forestall."