I don’t know why VDH has a negative view of Joseph McCarthy. It seems to me that history has shown that he was pretty much correct.
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stop stealing from us and paying morons to go there ... it just ends up paying the morons that work there ...
It is claimed the communists said “’The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Today people take out loans to go to reeducation camps formally known as colleges.
From the article:
“If the SAT and ACT are increasingly dropped for admissions to universities, then an exit version of them should be required to ensure that all BA and BS degrees certify at least a minimum competence in math, science, and general knowledge.”
Who’s going to agree to that and fork over their college fund? Not the first time I’ve noticed VDH doesn’t always think things through.
“An instructor at Stanford separated Jewish students from their belongings, “ordered them to stand in the corner,‘
That’s on the students who allowed him to do it in the first place.
The fix is to make the Universities co-borrowers on all student loans paid to the university.
If the student was not provided adequate education to make them a profitable member of society and thus are unable to pay back their loans, the university has to pay it back.
That’s the fix.
A sign of American cowardice and cultural rot that they and their detested spawn are here.
Agree that there was nothing wrong with McCarthy and his so-called 'witch hunt'.
The fact is, communists then as now immediately ridicule those who have them spotted and who clearly understand what they are doing.
Conspiracy theorists! Paranoids! Kooks!, etc., etc. It's standard Cold War Soviet tactical rhetoric.
What is amazing is the fact that, to this day, calling someone a McCarthyite is still a term of derision. It is a sign of how effective that particular psyops was and still is.
In the face of overwhelming evidence of thoroughgoing communist infiltration of academia and Hollywood, the majority of people still believe McCarthy dreamt it all up.
All the big problems America faces can be traced right back to Washington. The answer to most of those problems is shrinking the Central Government by a large degree. It’s like a huge malignancy that is killing everything good about America. Until we elect better people to high office charged with drastically downsizing the Federal cancer, it will only get worse.
I love VDH, but dislike his use of the term McCarthyite here. Otherwise a very good piece.
The history (including that in Soviet archives) shows us that McCarthy was largely correct. And we should have been running Communists and Communist-sympathizers out of prominent positions in government, industry, media.
Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies
https://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068
There’s a whole lot of people in college that have no business being there, that includes students, instructors, and professors. Many college degree programs actually dumb down students. The largest culprit is Ed programs, where completely below average high school students enter and subhumans graduate. Let’s choose that as the starting place in a cycle. Those subhumans then indoctrinate the next generation of children that will graduate high school completely unprepared for any real higher education. The weakest subset of that generation goes to indoctrination finishing school, otherwise known as college, to become teachers and the cycle repeats. Somewhere in the mix of this, the absolute worse become professors of education.
You know the old adage, those that cannot do, teach. The corollary to that is those who cannot teach, teach those that cannot do.
The cycle has to be broken.
As always Victor is dead on, I don’t believe it will happen but it should
There will be less sympathy for the college degreed, terrorist sympathizers seeking Biden’s student loan forgiveness.
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Exactly.
Makes you long for the days when college students were merely gulping goldfish and piling into graffiti-covered jalopies.
I have told each of them this: "I do not want you to think what I think. I want you to decide for yourself what's right and wrong."
So far, they have done exactly that, and they have resisted the indoctrination.
Perhaps in this is the answer to my question (vide supra).
Perhaps in the exhortation to seek TRUTH--TRUTH for its own sake--wherever it should present itself--lay the admonition to resist un-TRUTH which includes indoctrination.
If so, the real challenge is instill the demand for TRUTH in the population.
That will threaten long cherished delusions.
People hate relinquishing their delusions.
these same people would cheer the slaughter/incarceration of
MAGA people