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The key I think is education. As long as the hard left has control over the education system in this country they get to rewrite history. Political correctness had its birth in totalitarian regimes and yet we allow this to be taught to our children. There should be NOTHING that can not be said. ALL thoughts should be debated and the thoughts that have the best argument should win with the majority. It is only when we fail to debate the pro's and con's of an idea that we lose our freedom. Look at the Democrats for years they did not have to defend their views they attacked the character of the speaker instead of the merit of his/her argument. Talk radio and the Internet made them debate and they lost.

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"The key I think is education."

Couldn't agree more. David Horowitz, to my knowlege, is the leader in this area. Are you familiar with Front Page Magazine? (his website).

Being an old baby boomer myself, I started reading Horowitz when he was a Communist and I was (marginally) part of SDS. Now he his one of the greatest conservative thinkers in the country, I am a conservative Republican, and I am still reading him!

His greatest book in terms of content, though unfortunately uneven (you have to pick and choose) is
How to Beat the Democrats. (Not specifically about education, but education is his main focus as a conservative activist).

Weird story about that. One night Horowitz took over the radio show of Michael Reagan, President Reagan's son. Since Horowitz is, in national radio terms, unknown, I called right in and talked to him. I mentioned that I loved the book, How to Beat the Democrats and was met with dead silence, so I moved on. It was like he was embarassed to be openly discussing it on the radio. Maybe he was right. The tactics, if followed, are devastating. (At one point, Horowitz thanked Karl Rove for his help in setting up a particular website. I'd be willing to bet Karl Rove knows this book well.)

Of course, Horowitz's parents were Communists and he was raised as one, so he understands the tactics they use. He was at the forefront of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, which he now admits was nothing more or less than a Communist attempt to take advantage of America's freedom of speech to take over Berkeley. An attempt, obviously, that has ultimately completely succeeded.