Sputnik had nothing to do with it. Just posted this on another thread, but seems more appropriate here:
As I’ve noted this 100x here on FR, this was all planned in detail by the Russians & communists here during and prior to WWII. My mother was a typist for the FBI in WWII and saw it all and typed it all.
I knew their plan to take over our whole educational system and media from about the age of 10. The John Birchers had it mostly right.
Our victories will only be tactical ones until someone figures out how to remove the Marxist/atheists from brainwashing generation after generation of our youth. To date, I have not heard a solution from anyone.
Homeschooling is a tool (we did it before it was cool), but not the weapon that will win the war.
And as long as the Marxists are brainwashing our youth and controlling media, we will never get our country back for the long haul.
News TRUTH sites like FR are a big help, but the brainwashed masses will always reject them and depend on Marxist media......
I don’t really disagree. I think Sputnik provided an excuse to accelerate what the Marxists had long been working on. I don’t mean to imply that Sputnik was a true Beginning. This problem began long before the 1950s.
A note of interest: When I was in school in the 1960s, early 70s I was young and didn’t focus much on the world. I had a number of teachers who would rant and rave about the John Birchers. Those guys were crazy! And stupid! And wrong! I just sat there over the course of several years in school thinking “Who the heck are the Birchers? No one ever talks about these guys. I have no idea who they. But my teachers seem super upset about them.”
Yeah: The Birchers were mostly right. Teachers hated that.
And for their trouble, the Birchers got their name turned into a leftist cuss-word almost as nuclear as "racist".