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How Did We Get Here?
Townhall ^ | 11-13-2026 | Laura Hollis

Posted on 11/13/2026 5:38:15 AM PST by 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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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?"

1 posted on 11/13/2026 5:38:15 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: Dan in Wichita

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.


2 posted on 11/13/2026 5:44:32 AM PST by drwoof
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To: Dan in Wichita

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.


3 posted on 11/13/2026 5:49:09 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: Dan in Wichita

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


4 posted on 11/13/2026 5:50:01 AM PST by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: DeplorablePaul

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


5 posted on 11/13/2026 5:54:22 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: Dan in Wichita

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


6 posted on 11/13/2026 5:56:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Dan in Wichita

We didn’t shoot them.
That’s how.


7 posted on 11/13/2026 5:56:42 AM PST by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope")
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To: Dan in Wichita

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.


8 posted on 11/13/2026 5:58:28 AM PST by NY Cajun
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To: Dan in Wichita
>> "How Did We Get Here?" <<

SIN

9 posted on 11/13/2026 6:04:23 AM PST by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: NY Cajun

What actually happened is that apathetic conservatives did nothing but just blow hot air. Conservatives watched and bitched but were too lazy to act


10 posted on 11/13/2026 6:05:48 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: right way right

The want a bloodless communist revolution. Even the Russian communist revolution started in war. First ww1 and then the red white civil war.


11 posted on 11/13/2026 6:08:30 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn )
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To: All

Anti White immigration policies


12 posted on 11/13/2026 6:09:08 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: right way right

The want a bloodless communist revolution. Even the Russian communist revolution started in war. First ww1 and then the red white civil war.


13 posted on 11/13/2026 6:09:34 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn )
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To: Red Badger

No, Communism, like Fascism, folds up on its own. Russia gave up on Communism after 75 years. It can not work—China gave up on it and reverted to state Capitalism. It fails every time because it is not in harmony with human nature, don’t cite all that Freedom malarkey—Human history is filled with nothing but tyrants and kings, some good, some awful and a few mad. Even Christmas is being polluted now with the story of Scrooge and the Grinch replacing The Birth of Christ. Scrooge is a Liberal wet dream—a rich man learns to give away all his money-—Compassion is not a thing found in abundance in the history book. It exists but its a rare item-—Like the King of Spain giving smallpox inoculations to the Natives of the New World. Like England ending the Slave trade, Or the North Freeing the slaves. I am reminded of a quote from my source of wisdom—Star Trek “Maybe man was not meant to dance to the flute but march to the drum?”


14 posted on 11/13/2026 6:12:51 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“China gave up on it and reverted to state Capitalism.”

State run capitalism is fascism, but your point is well taken.


15 posted on 11/13/2026 6:15:24 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn )
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To: bert

Rush Limbaugh fooled Conservatives into thinking they were Libertarians. He was the grand placater. We wasted 3 decades being entertained.


16 posted on 11/13/2026 6:18:41 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn )
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To: drwoof

Along with this very basic truth, I guess I was fortunate as a young student in the 50s to get some good pro-American teaching during that time. I believe that at least a few of my teachers were real American patriots who never really got enough credit for what they were doing..... I Don’t know what they are teaching these days, but from results I am seeing, some of it must be rather reprehensible.


17 posted on 11/13/2026 6:24:10 AM PST by oldtech (oltech)
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To: bert

Dear bert.....
Do not instigate, sit down and shut up.
Never publicly advocate the death of others.

Begin by moving out of your parents basement.


18 posted on 11/13/2026 6:26:51 AM PST by LFOD (Formerly - Iraq, Afghanistan - here to stay...,)
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To: bert

Dear bert.....
Do not instigate, sit down and shut up.
Never publicly advocate the death of others.

Begin by moving out of your parents basement.


19 posted on 11/13/2026 6:26:54 AM PST by LFOD (Formerly - Iraq, Afghanistan - here to stay...,)
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To: Dan in Wichita
How Did We Get Here?

The march through, i.e., takeover, of the "institutions," - the levers of power - media, education, entertainment, sports industry. They've now moved into Congress.

That and a large dose of vote fraud:

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20 posted on 11/13/2026 6:28:27 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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