This paragraph says it all about what even the F- public school kids "know":
Today’s students are taught not to make value judgments about other nations, even if they are authoritarian dictatorships. They may not know where Brazil is on the map, but they "know" all the rain forests are disappearing. They don’t know when the Civil War took place or why, but they "know" that all the Founding Fathers were slave-owners. They also "know" that America’s history is one of destroying the native Indian nations, taking their land, and exploiting it with farms, mining, and the destruction of whole forests. They cannot tell you what the Bill of Rights is, but they "know" the US is the leading contributor of "greenhouse gases" to the atmosphere, thereby causing global warming. It is a full course of lies.
Your selection is a good one. Of course the republican party, the party of the rich-- the party of capitalism, is at fault here. There is a solution if only we would elect wise leftists elitists. Communism only failed because it was tried in a poor backward country. And when we win one, it only causes them to dig in deeper for the next skirmish.