How Did We Get Here?

Townhall ^ | 11-13-2026 | Laura Hollis

[Dan in Wichita]

But our problems start in the classroom, not at the polls. Our K-12 educational system is an unmitigated disaster. Huge numbers of American youth cannot even read at grade level. Teachers' unions vote Democrat and wield enormous political clout despite failing schools. And every day brings more headlines about political, cultural and sexual indoctrination that takes place in grade schools and high schools. Higher education is just as bad, if not worse. Tenured faculty can promote insidious and societally corrosive ideologies like communism without accountability. And where do you think the K-12 teachers come from?

A miseducated population is easily manipulated. Feelings are more important than facts. When people have been indoctrinated rather than educated, they do not value rational argument and cannot process evidence, even when it is presented to them. It's as if their brains shut down. How their views make them feel about themselves means more to them than the consequences of the policies they support. They are impervious to even the most compelling persuasion or proof.

Sexual libertinism seems to be the most important "freedom." The Left has no problem restricting speech, religion or gun ownership but worships anything having to do with sexual behavior. This has reached the point of absurdity, as manifested by the twisted defense of changing children's "gender" via chemical castration and surgical mutilation. And — need it be said? — where promiscuity goes, abortion must follow.

Left-wing political views have replaced individual morality as a measure of personal virtue. It matters far less what decisions you have made in your personal life, and far more that you can stick a sign in your yard or make a TikTok video proclaiming your support for the latest lefty cause celebre or Oppressed People of the Week.

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[Dan in Wichita]

The last paragraph of the commentary:

"It isn't hard to look back and see how we got here. The difficult question is, how do we get out?"

[drwoof]

The simple answer is to turn to Jesus Christ, and to follow his teachings. Were we to do that (again) as a nation, we would very quickly get back on track.

[DeplorablePaul]

We all know that we are not voting our way out of a totalitarian communist state. That ship has sailed. We must pray for a cataclysm.

[rdcbn1]

How do we get out of this ?

The old fashion way - the system falls apart, we go through very hard times and people are brought back to reality and sound principles

Our affluence and security have produced a generation that has lost touch with reality and when you lose touch with reality , reality reaches out and touches you

Look at Cuba to see an example

[bert]

A more reliable consideration is war and lots of Democrat deaths. That is the only valid consideration that will save the American Republic

[Red Badger]

Communism: You vote your way in, but shoot your way out...........

[right way right]

We didn’t shoot them.
That’s how.

[NY Cajun]

How did we get here? The Leftist media AND the Leftist academia of our colleges and universities grow bigger and stronger every day. The numbers of their ignorant victims grow every day. It’s the proverbial boulder rolling down the mountain. It’s too late to stop this. I don’t have enough years left in me to list all the things that the Right could have done to prevent this. America wanes.