I'd just call it a pack of lies myself, especially in the areas of rewritten history, and ideological programming for all manners of the human nature.
"From a column by Terrence Moore, professor of history at Hillsdale:
On pages 403-4 of Pearson/Prentice Hall’s LITERATURE, Grade Ten, Common Core Edition, we see an editorial written on the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It appeared in The New York Times. It begins, “The Berlin Wall was bound to fall eventually.” That’s interesting. Was the editorial board of The New York Times writing in 1980 that the Berlin Wall was “bound to fall eventually”? The editorial continues:
"But that it came down as bloodlessly as it did 10 years ago this week is largely a tribute to one leader. Today Mikhail Gorbachev is a political pariah in Russia and increasingly forgotten in the West. But history will remember him generously for his crucial role in ending the cold war and pulling back the Iron Curtain that Stalin drew across Europe in 1945. [Emphasis added.]"
So there you have it. Gorbachev brought down the Wall. Why? Well, evidently because he was a good guy. In one line of the editorial we are treated to a masterful use of elliptical prose: “As political pressures began to build in the late 1980s, Mr. Gorbachev was left with two options.” Etc. What political pressures? Who or what brought those pressures? We are not told. The New York Times editors assign the words “enlightened,” “idealism,” and “pragmatic” to Gorbachev. Indeed, the General Secretary of the Communist Party is said to have had “a wisdom and decency that is sadly rare in international power politics.” Does that comment extend to American participants in international power politics, particularly at that time?
Those of us who lived through those years and kept up with events might wonder what role, if any, Ronald Reagan played in this drama, according to the textbook editors. Will the adjectives “enlightened,” “pragmatic,” “wise,” and “decent” be applied to him? His name is not to be found in any of the documents concerning the fall of the Berlin Wall. But on page 449, we do find, as promised in the Common Core, his Address to the Students of Moscow State University held up as a model “exemplar text.” Unfortunately, the address is so heavily highlighted with shades of green, blue, orange, gray, purple, and pink—and so buried under the jargon of two-bit literary criticism (central idea and point of view, methods of development, organizational structures, rhetorical devices, figurative language, tone and word choice)—that it is hardly readable. Worse still, in the textbook editors’ introduction to the speech, students are told the following:
"Led by Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviets were blazing through the greatest changes they had seen since the 1917 revolution. Although reforms were rapidly taking root, they were not far enough from communist ideology for Reagan. . . . In this excerpt, notice how Reagan restrains his strongly anti-communist sentiments while still extolling the ideals he represents.".............
Put the crack pipe down and seek help kyle.
Obviously it’s going to punish the intelligent hard-working achievers and take their money and reward the indolent, low-IQ slackers.
That’s what ALL leftist policies do.
Common Core only teaches your children how to be good commies. It sure does not teach them reading, writing and math, much less US History and Civics. Or skills learned in shop classes or Food or Sewing.
I have a 36 year old step daughter that can fix your computer, install a server, trouble shoot your PC from home with a icon you tap and enter your code. BUT she cannot boil water or sew on a button! So she lives of fast food or nuked stuff. And when any household item goes haywire it’s call your 73 year old dad to come lay that new floor you want, or fix your garbage disposal or your clothes washer that is making a strange nose, because you forgot to remove change from your pockets. DUH!
Now I am a simple operator of computers and smart phones, but I can cook, bake, sew, and rewire a lamp and do minor first aid. All taught in the school system before the commies took it over.