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Is there anything that could ever turn the tide?

I don't know. You're probably already doing some of what needs to be done. Raise your kids. Build your business. Don't be too dependent on the government for your livelihood or society for your sense of worth.

I think the reform of the school system is almost an impossibility without the fear of competition, so building a private network of schools is job one, in my opinion churches should make this a priority. What good does it do to evangelize distant lands if you lose your own kids along the way? Your first mission field has to be your own kids and the kids in your own community. That means home school for some, its no surprise that home-schooled kids are superior to public schooled kids in almost every way. But for the majority it means private schools led and subsidized by churches.

And we need to re-think what constitutes an education. Blind faith in a degree issued by a university has to go by the wayside. When almost all of the academic teaching staff is made up of leftist pinheads, what kind of education do you think you are getting for your money? The more years of university a person has, it seems, the more de-programming he has to go through afterward to get his soul back. So why give your soul to them in the first place?

So an alternative to the debased institution we call university has to be found and built. The military has excellent technical schools. There are places like Hillsdale that are excellent. But you can't assume that a degree from a typical university is evidence of anything other than 4 years of increasing indoctrination, unless it is a technical degree.

For what its worth, we got our grandkids out of public school several years ago and its the smartest thing we ever did, I regret now that we didn't do it sooner, I regret now that we didn't do it with our own kids.

The next thing is to tune out the mainstream media, just stop buying what they are selling. This will help to bring about the growth of new media. Vote with your attention and dollars for those media outlets that are good and decent and at least reasonably objective. Conservatives have been complaining about media bias for many decades now, and still have barely come up with anything to replace them, they are still in effect borrowing their enemy's microphone when ever they want to get their message out, and then wondering why it doesn't work out so well.

The fact that after all of these decades we still must borrow our enemy's mic and newsprint is an embarrassment.

We have to stop complaining about media bias and recognize that it isn't bias. The media is 90% Democrat, its ownership is almost universally Democrat or further left. There is no Republican media, it essentially doesn't exist anywhere other than your AM radio dial. The problem is not "bias", the problem is that we are trying to use Democrat media, and it isn't working, and it isn't ever going to work.

So we have to build our own parallel networks, like FR for example, but we need much more than that. Since all the existing media are sharing the same leftist demographic, there is a huge unserved market out here for objective and positive media, in my view.

So, build your family, build your business, build your school for your own kids, build your own source of information, build your own network of friends of like mind, and if I may say it, get your family into church. Beyond the obvious spiritual benefit it can be just one more piece of the parallel life you build that is outside the grasp of the "machine".