Posted on 09/08/2012 1:01:49 AM PDT by No One Special
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“They used to teach civics and now they teach leftwing propaganda.”
The overt, systemic leftwing indoctrination has been going on most of my life. At least since the early seventies.
Bacon
About a week ago I was teaching some of the writings of the early Pilgrims (mostly poetry of Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor, but also an excerpt from The Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, which I just happened to find online) to my AP English class (Juniors). We got into discussions of the role religion played in the lives of these early Americans and I asked them (all right, I was goading them) about religious freedom in America today and whether or not there was a chill being placed on open religious expression. Several students began (rather forcefully, I might add) citing the Constitution’s “separation of church and state” as the correct way to understand why such expression should be omitted. When I tried to explain to them the true nature of that phrase, they looked at me as if I had grown a third eye (which, I was careful to not wear to class that day!) When I asked them to ponder the nature of these deeply religious folks (we had been studying them for two weeks, and the notion that there would come a day in their not-too-distant future where their offspring would actually legislate against their own deeply held beliefs, to wit, “Hey, I’ve got a great idea! Let’s create a country where we are not allowed to openly practice what we most revere,” when I asked them to consider the absurdity of such a thought, about half the class took on a “light bulb going on” look, while the other half continued to snarl.
You see, their History teacher had told them, “separation of church and state was in the Constitution. Who is their English teacher to tell them otherwise! At the ripe old age of 16, their minds (some of them) had been successfully calibrated.
Get them while their young, folks!
“he book is called “Living Democracy” third edition.”
Alas, probably to replace, Democracy in America (De Toqueville)
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Great work! I see a bit of hope for younger people. Many of them are savvy beyond their years due to the stream of information that they glean mostly off of the internet. The sad part is that many of them are jaded before they have really embarked on their journey. The good part is that many of them are skeptical, critical thinkers. They can look around themselves and see that things are bent, broken or lacking. They ponder it, and often without much respect for authority simply as authority. They want a reason or a proof of integrity.
Great guidance that you did there. Not all, but some of those seeds you planted will take root.
TV punditry's greatest fence-sitter, O'Reilly has brought fame and fortune to successions of under-educated (in freedom) but glib leftist professors and pseudo-intellectuals by featuring them over and over again on his show.....and giving them free rein to spout their marxist ideologies.
O'Reilly, who has no grounding in those conservative and free economy things we all know by heart, is another glib huckster who is important only because he has such a wide audience. And this is what makes him dangerous. And I think that in his small mind he loves being considered dangerous....thi$ help$ bring the dollar$ in so he can live like a capitalist while he promotes and furthers both capitalism and communism at the same time.
Nice gig if you can get it.
Leni
This is good stuff.
Intellectuals are to a great extent socialists because - as Hayek put it - they are convinced that socialism is a “science applied to all fields of human activity” and thanks to that, it is a system created “exactly for them.” “Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people”[4] and that is why they do not want to be evaluated by the market, since the market often does not share their high self-evaluation.
4. Socialism (or rather communism, as we say today) has from its very beginning been based on an apotheosis of science and on a firmly rooted hope that science shall solve all existing human and social problems; that is why it is not necessary to change the system. It suffices to make it slightly more enlightened. Our communist experience tells us that this idea is absurd. It did seem to us back then that the West believed in the same fallacy.
Sort of slaps the “educated fools” in the face saying what we’ve thought all long...
This is why we have to utterly defeat the Marxist in two months, then turn our efforts towards continually pushing our RINO squish candidate to the right, continually pushing to remove the statists in the GOP leadership. The left never stops, nor should we.
If we only do the one without the other, it will not be good enough, and we will eventually fail.
He’s Czech, so it’s no surprise he “gets it”. I have many Eastern European friends (and some Western European “refugees”) who make the argument for conservatism very well. Once you’ve seen the other side of the political spectrum up close, when you’ve seen neighbors starving, when you’ve waited in 8 hour lines for healthcare, when all sense of cultural identity is wiped out in the name of some “multi-cultural utopia” nonsense, you become a card-carrying conservative for life. In fact, every time the two Latvians at my place of work see Obanjo on T.V., they give an entertaining, mock Soviet allegiance pledge to “Black Lenin”, or “Comrade Zero”. Drives the libs nuts ;)
A very true but discouraging observation. Once you create that collective culture of dependency, it is very difficult to wean the people off of Big Government. People will give up liberty for security.
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Don't be fooled by labels. Conservativism in Europe is still far different than in the US. The role of government in one's life is viewed far differently. Health care is one big example. They are very few European conservatives who would support dismantling their national health care systems.
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