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Thank you for your interesting reply.

As I’ve written elsewhere, the left has been able to do what it has done by following, in part, the admonishment by Gramscii to take the “long march through the institutions” and subvert the organizations that teach culture into leftist enclaves. They’ve done a good job taking over academia, the media, religion, and government.

Here’s my response. I’m an English teacher right now at a high school. I’m taking a long march through THEIR institutions. Whenever I can, to whomever I can, I use my position to teach the virtues of liberty, freedom, American exceptionalism, and limited government. The left hasn’t changed the teaching standards, all of which say I am perfectly within my job description to teach those things. I can teach Solzhenitsyn to demonstrate the insanity and cruelty of communism. When a precocious freshment comes into my classroom filled with Marxist drivel, I can give him a copy of the Federalist Papers. Whenever I can, I counter the crap handed out by the left.

I have tenure, too, and as long as my students do well on the standardized tests - which they do - my principals don’t bother me. The students and parents generally like me, too.

A poor, stupid bastard like Gramscii had no clue that his ideas are mere strategy. Those ideas can be used against the left. So can the strategies of Alinsky. It took them 80 years to tear down American culture. It’ll take us just as long to erode their structures. Just don’t give up. Teach your kids. Subvert the left. Nothing is permanent, especially those who preen like tyrants.

Good luck and have a great Sunday.

I find your views very interesting as well. I applaud what you're doing as a teacher. I hope tens of thousands of like-minded others join you! The path ahead of you is long and grueling but it may be the only real way out of this crisis. I just hope a change in teaching standards -- and gulags -- don't arrive too soon.

As you say, Gramscians and other Marxists now dominate all key elements of our culture and government. You're right that the tables can and must be turned with the reversal strategy you've outlined. But conservatives generally haven't shown much enthusiasm for that approach. They lack the fervor, patience and sense of purpose shown by the Opposition.

I was a kid during WWII and saw the ravages of totalitarian rule under Hitler. I wasn't lured into the Soviet dream either. I read Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" and "The God That Failed" while still in high school. Those and Orwell's "1984" were all the warning I needed about Marxist totalitarianism. His image of a future with a boot heel crushing into our faces is still vivid.

Liberty will eventually prevail. I just hope there won't be a long excruciating interlude of darkness.