[Noumenon]

The Left's Gramscian 'Long March' through all of our institutions has been largely successful. For proof, just take a trip down to your nearest public school and demand to see the history curriculum and teaching guides. If you aren't stonewalled and removed from the premises, that'll tell you all you need to know.

Who was it who said that the tragedy of modern American education wasn't that we were turning out ignoramuses, but that were were turning out savages.

2000 years or so ago, Titus Livy, in his introduction to his monumental history of Rome remarked that his purpose in writing was "to trace the progress of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them."

We may yet have a last shot at curing ourselves of our 'vices' - the rot of MArxism and modern liberalism - and that's with a McCain/Palin win. It would at least be a start, a step in the right direction. We have no shot at all with an Obamanation win.

[joanie-f]

I saw Larry Schweikart interviewed on FoxNews this morning. He has written a new book entitled, ‘Forty-Eight Liberal Lies About American History That You Probably Learned at School’. He listed the boldface lies that are contained in many widely-used American textbooks: from the fact that Gorbachev single-handedly ended the Cold War, to the fact that Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative was an utter failure, and on and on ad infinitum ...

I was fortunate enough to have attended public school in the late fifties and sixties, long before the Marxist/socialist cancer achieved a major foothold in public school curricula. During that era, American students were primarily taught how to think rather than what to think.

I teach piano and tutor math. In doing so over the last thirty-five years, I have discovered a very disturbing trend. The large majority of the public school (as opposed to parochial school or home-schooled) students I deal with on a daily basis, no matter there innate ability to learn, have great difficult getting from Point A to Point B without a distinct road map. They have been ‘taught’ to need a hand to hold. Unless they have come across a nearly identical problem or challenge, they haven’t the vaguest idea about how to go about solving it.

Such wasn’t the case years ago. The ability to apply critical thought and individual analytical ability were considered the hallmark if a successful education. Not so anymore. Owning such a tool is a distinct threat to the powers that be.

2000 years or so ago, Titus Livy, in his introduction to his monumental history of Rome remarked that his purpose in writing was "to trace the progress of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them."

Your italics are chilling in their accurate application to modern American society.

~ joanie

[narses]

We may yet have a last shot at curing ourselves of our 'vices' - the rot of MArxism and modern liberalism - and that's with a McCain/Palin win. It would at least be a start, a step in the right direction. We have no shot at all with an Obamanation win.

Well said. Sad that there are the blind purists who would allow the imperfection of the very human candidates become a bar to voting for them. McCain ain't perfect, nor was Ronald Reagan. The very closest America has ever come was geo. Washington and he was flawed. Today we have a stark choice - Obama and death or McCain and life. Period. It is time to choose.