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The Single Best Thing Americans Can Do to Retake America
Townhall.com ^ | July 8, 2021 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 06/08/2021 3:03:26 AM PDT by Kaslin

The most frequent question people pose to me is: What can I/we do to fight back against the nihilistic anti-American destruction of virtually all the country's major institutions?

There is an answer.

The single best thing Americans can do to counter the left-wing attack on America -- against its freedoms, its schools, its families, its children, its governmental institutions, its sports, its news and entertainment media, its medical establishment, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department and the military -- is to take their children out of America's schools.

Other than in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), the vast majority of America's elementary schools, high schools, colleges and universities teach your child or grandchild almost nothing important; prematurely sexualize them, thereby robbing them of their innocence; and harm them intellectually and morally. They rarely teach them, for example, art or music because they are too busy teaching them race-centered hatred of whites, of America and of America's values. Sending your child(ren) to most American schools is playing Russian roulette with their values -- but unlike the gun in Russian roulette, which has a bullet in only one of its six chambers, the schools' guns hold four or five bullets.

In many elementary schools, your child is taught that gender is chosen and that there is no difference between boys and girls (in a growing number of schools, the teachers are told not to call their students "boys and girls"); they are taught about masturbation; and many children from first grade on attend "Drag Queen Story Hour," wherein an obvious man wearing women's clothing, garish makeup and a wig entertains them.

Given that all this is well-known, why do any nonleft -- meaning, liberal or conservative -- parents send their children to an American school?

One reason is they are in denial. Many parents do not want to know what their children are being taught and the consequent damage done to them. They don't really believe school(s) will ruin their child, let alone their child's relationship with them.

These parents should speak to any of the millions -- yes, millions -- of Americans whose children have contempt for America, for free speech and for their parents as a result of attending an American college or even high school. I meet such people at every speech I give, and I speak to them regularly on my radio show. Ask these parents, if they could redo their lives, whether they would keep their child in school.

A second reason is they feel they have no choice. If they remove their child from the local public or private school (most private schools are just as committed to anti-American indoctrination over education as public schools), what will they do with their child? They often cannot find a local school that does not harm their child. They cannot necessarily even rely on Christian or Jewish schools. Most of them are as "woke" as most secular schools. And if they do find a school that teaches rather than poisons, they may not be able to afford the tuition.

The only other option, then, is to home-school one's child. The problem is that many parents assume this is essentially impossible. For one thing, they assume that one of the parents would have to leave his or her work, which would mean a serious reduction in the family's income. In addition, home-schooling strikes most people as simply too daunting a task, even if they could afford to take it on.

Neither fear is entirely justified. It is true that, at least at the outset, a working parent may have to cut back from full-time work, and it is true that no matter what the family's financial condition, there are challenges to taking one's children out of school and home-schooling them.

But given the low intellectual state of most American schools, the damage they do to young children's innocence and the anti-American, anti-white, anti-Western indoctrination in most schools, if you are a parent of school-age children, what is your choice?

Other than a) finding a good school that b) you can afford, you have no other choice. You are fooling yourself if you think the odds are that after attending American schools from kindergarten through college (not to mention through graduate school), your child will turn out well-educated, intellectually alive, rational, kind, happy, well-adjusted, grateful to be American and respectful of you and your values.

While there are some wonderful young Americans who recently attended American schools, and there are some lost souls who were home-schooled, American schools are largely producing the following:

Poorly educated students. Ask your college son or daughter to diagram a sentence; identify Joseph Stalin, "The Gulag Archipelago" or the Soviet Union; name the branches of the American government; identify -- or just spell -- Ludwig van Beethoven; date the Civil War; identify the Holocaust; and name which sentence is correct -- "He gave the book to my friend and me" or, "He gave the book to my friend and I."

Angry young people. Why wouldn't they be? First, they graduate college with a huge load of debt, having received almost nothing useful for their money. Second, if they are anything other than a white heterosexual Christian male, they have been taught to regard themselves as victims of oppression. Third, their future is so bleak they may not even have one: They are threatened with extinction by climate change.

The single best thing Americans can do to fight the left-wing destruction of the country is to withdraw from the "educational" system that is actively, deliberately miseducating them by the tens of millions. If millions of American parents did so, the country would turn around as fast as you could say "teachers unions." If they don't, their children will continue being used as guinea pigs in the left's sick and dystopian experiment.


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1 posted on 06/08/2021 3:03:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Another good idea would be for parents to actually talk to their children, instead of depending on the television or computer as a baby sitter.


2 posted on 06/08/2021 3:07:27 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

Primary the hell out of the candidates,but stand behind them come election. Make them work fir that nomination.


3 posted on 06/08/2021 3:08:06 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Jonty30

The elections truly are FAR FAR MORE CORRUPT than close..the hysteria over attempts to require voter ID and ballot auditing and accountability are all anyone needs to know about the issue. As PDJT himself says , why does the UniParty (D) have 103 lawyers in Arizona?

The “image’ of the Left as an honest political wing in the USA has been driven by the media-which aid and abet electoral fraud. The media explains how things just happen to be “turning Blue” all the time.

Since 1984 the control of media outlets has dropped from over 50 different organizations to just 6 today. The product of that consolidation is an ILLUSION of a “powerful Left wing”, a MANUFACTURED progressive consensus that has usurped political power it has no business with honestly.

“honest” votes for Biden/the Left/the UniParty were 30-35 million in 2020. At most.

The problems originate in corrupted, local electoral precincts in deep Blue urban centers. These NEED to be cleaned. Nobody desires the dirty job. Part of “redistricting” projects, BTW, is to create regions and social environments permitting unfettered and unhindered Electoral Fraud.

Think parts of cities where Republicans fear to tread. No bipartisan voting observers. If any Republican observers, or even voters show up,they are threatened. This is the beginning process of turning a Red state Purple. Its why they are trying to defund the police in those deep blue cities.

This article provides a glimpse into exactly this process going on in Philadelphia in 2009

https://www.heritage.org/commentary/voter-intimidation-new-black-panther-style

There are more of “us” than “them” A whole lot more

Its all kayfabe. Its what they want you to believe, its what they want you to “feel”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

What the left has done, ever since the 1984 Reagan-Mondale blowout - (and Mondale was a “moderate” Democrat!) - is to start electoral fraud programs in the largest states to turn them from Red-to-Purple-to Blue. They realized they had no future otherwise. It started in California and New York.

This last election cycle local Texans managed to turn it around at the precinct level-their RINO Governor not withstanding.

Extreme involvement in your local precincts and making sure paper balloting on ELECTION DAY, with hand counts and recounts in a transparent fashion and setting with open audit trails available to the general public, among other measures-are key.

Its dirty, tough work and initially confrontational with the existing perps. As the above article illustrates, it will be dangerous. But it beats the heck outta the alternatives -which are bearing down like a runaway freight train

The left has focused on corrupting our local electoral process. They focus on the deep urban centers. This process of corruption is very active presently in Georgia, using Atlanta as its base, the last 2 election cycles. The state legislature is doing its best to turn it around down there -but will need the rest of the country’s support to make it stick as the UniParty is bringing all its corporate guns to bear on the issue.

We the People have no future otherwise. These people INTEND to “rule”.


4 posted on 06/08/2021 3:17:45 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Kaslin

Public schools have no place in a free nation. I’m actually disappointed to see how many Freepers don’t understand that, even as they get on this website and tell how much they value their freedom and liberty.


5 posted on 06/08/2021 3:19:40 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: mo

I totally get all that, but that’s the only we can fix it. Strong and faithful candidates, turn out the vote for him.

Squishes, make it work for them to keep their seats and be not afraid to call them out publicly.


6 posted on 06/08/2021 3:21:20 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: Kaslin

The author is absolutely correct. Yuri Bezmenov explained the Commie plan fifty years ago. Few if any listened.


7 posted on 06/08/2021 3:22:14 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: EvilCapitalist

Our kids went to public schools in a liberal area. Every evening at dinner and doing homework the various liberal ideas would come up and my wife and I would discuss them with the kids.

All three of them are in their 20’s and survived college on their own and are staunch Conservatives. Well, except for my oldest who leans Conservative Libertarian in that all government as it exists now is evil.


8 posted on 06/08/2021 3:27:56 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: Kaslin
The Single Best Thing Americans Can Do to Retake America?

Stop reading Townhall?

9 posted on 06/08/2021 3:38:21 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Kaslin

AMEN!! and PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, and STAND UP TO EVIL AND TYRANNY!


10 posted on 06/08/2021 3:51:21 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: JonPreston

Then LEAVE LYING Liberal!!


11 posted on 06/08/2021 3:57:59 AM PDT by afchief
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To: afchief

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12 posted on 06/08/2021 3:59:30 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Kaslin

Roger that on publik skrewls.

But since Americans can multitask, let’s go back to dumb voting machines, too.


13 posted on 06/08/2021 4:01:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Kaslin

This article shows one of the big problems with American conservatism: the constant desire to retreat and surrender.

*The left has taken over our schools - pull our kids out and leave
*They also own the media - abandon them in favor of obscure alternatives that no one else watches
*They are taking over the military - Conservatives have better stop enlisting

No wonder the left controls all aspects of our society. As soon as conservatives are challenged they abandon the field.


14 posted on 06/08/2021 4:19:19 AM PDT by Renfrew
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To: Kaslin

The die was cast when leftists were permitted to infiltrate and take over the primary and secondary schools.

They have been indoctrinating’s America’s children for generations but the big expansion of their takeover began in the 1960s.

Is there any reason to be surprised that the children they indoctrinated rather than educated have grown up to be non-thinking leftists who now run most large businesses and much of America’s government?

As long as leftists run our schools there will be no change in the current trend of pushing our society and culture more and more to the left.


15 posted on 06/08/2021 4:27:14 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Terror is a political weapon, and its purpose is to force capitulation. — Adolf Hitler,)
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To: Kaslin

punch a teacher


16 posted on 06/08/2021 5:08:30 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Kaslin

Turn off the TV!

The vast wasteland has caused WAY too much damage as it is!


17 posted on 06/08/2021 5:20:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Ann Archy

If my people, who are called by my Name...


18 posted on 06/08/2021 5:21:51 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin
...is to take their children out of America's schools.

Welcome to the club, Dennis...some of us have been screaming that for forty years.

19 posted on 06/08/2021 5:24:20 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Elsie

I always do, when I go to sleep. I can not sleep with the TV on. On the other hand, I listen to my TV when I sit at my desk. My TV is about 5 feet to the left of me, and I have to turn my head to look at the TV when I want to watch something. So there!!!


20 posted on 06/08/2021 5:29:40 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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