>>>I’m a teacher surrounded by liberals and he’ll be a social worker with the same situation. We aren’t surrendering professions to the moonbats.<<<
Same here. However, don’t think of it as being surrounded facing eventually extinction. My approach comes straight from the Alinsky-Gramscii model of social revolution.
Gramscii was the Italian communist who said that the left needed to infiltrate and take over the means of culture and communication in the West, eventually causing the society to adopt communist values without having a revolution. Alinsky is the Chicago community organizer who provided “rules for radicals” to effect social change.
You and I, my friend, have infiltrated the leftist academic community. I think of myself as a termite, slowly undermining leftist thinking, one student at a time. Just yesterday, a student asked me about “the Reds,” mentioned in a book she was reading. She was given a brief history of communism, complete with an overview of Marxist theory and examples of communism in real life, from Lenin to Pol Pot. When this student gets to college, she’s innoculated against leftist ideas. My senior English class reads Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” Classic stuff, Nobel Prize winner. Very accessible for seniors. It’s also a good presentation of leftist thinking in government. I also teach world history, which includes economics. The students are getting a good dose of free market ideas from Friedman and others, as well as the notion that capitalism is the human norm economically, and other systems try to manipulate the normal trade patterns of human beings (supply and demand, in other words).
I respect the beliefs of my students, but I do not hide my own. There is a Bible on the bookshelf in my room. When a colleague said she was annoyed by the secretary displaying a creche during Christmas, I told her that she needed to be more tolerant of diversity (using the Alinsky idea of using the values of the opposition against them), and there was nothing in the Constitution about her imposing her beliefs and values on other people just because she was annoyed. This caused her to tell me that she missed living in her former town, which had a small university in it.
We are the future, my friend. Our students walk out of our classes with fresh ideas and see the emperor without his clothes. Be well and Merry Christmas... which I write even though I’m Jewish. LOL