Thank you so much for this very important post.
From Bill Ivey
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599
“...And as I’ve mentioned, we’ve all
been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire
to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains
strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands
some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven,
demographically-inspired messaging...”
Restatement of a quote, widely attributed to George Santayana.
In its original form it read, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
It’s certainly true of the American Left, who are absolutely adamant in ignoring the lessons of the former Soviet Union, Communist China, Cuba, Vietnam, and, most recently, Venezuela, among many others.
Marxism, in any other form, such as Utopian Socialism, communism, and now the so-called Globalism, will bring in its wake, as sunset brings night, poverty, desperation, absolutism, large-scale imprisonment, and revolutionary violence on a horrendous scale.
But it’s clear the kids will have to re-learn this for themselves, and hillary will be a willing teacher.
An excellent article, thank you.
Well to be blunt, what connection, if any, do the children of all the newcomers (or newcomers themselves) feel to American history to begin with? “Millennials” are often described as “diverse,” but it’s more realistic to say “ethnically-fractured.”
Any assessment of the nation, its characteristics, and its future characteristics which ignores demographics is just plain useless.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
Santayana
What is even more disturbing is not when they forget, but when a history is created out of thin air for them to accept to suit a political agenda, and they do so.
Willingly.
I will point out that prior generations learned of the glory of this country in SCHOOL, where HISTORY teachers stood before us and related the story of this country’s founding and growth.
Today, what passes(!) for school does nothing of the kind. Children all the whay to college age know NOTHING whatever of the stories, the struggles, the internal fighting and compromises that created what we have today.
What is written here regarding the millenials lack of knowledge what learned by us by the EIGHTH grade. My entire senior year concentrated on AMERICAN history.
the key to modern ignorance lies with the SCHOOLS alone.
In my youth I used to prowl old used book stores for US history books. One I got ended about 1900, and another ended in 1917. Both were very different on the Civil War.
When in High School, (1963) our History teacher disliked the school’s choice for a History book as she felt it was written for Northern schools and was unfair to the Southern reasons for the Civil War.
This where you just want to yank your hair out.
We conservatives have been talking about this for decades.
I have asked my kids,”What do they teach you in school?” They say, “They teach us to pass tests”.
No...
They don’t have history tests either.
And you know they don’t know that the Repubican Party was anti-slavery.
The Mumbai born Dinesh D’Souza knows more about American history than the native born. Which wouldn’t be bad if they didn’t seem so proud of their ignorance.