Is why we are where we are today…
Why you may ask?
A far more troubling development, is how quickly a significant and powerful minority of Americans grew to believe that America is a fundamentally racist country and that white Americans are somehow uniquely evil by virtue of their birth.
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The short version is that American youth, since at least the 1960s, with significant acceleration in the 1980s, have been indoctrinated with hostility toward Western civilization in general, with the obvious corollaries of hostility toward whites, the nuclear family, Christianity, private property and men. Perhaps most troubling is the view that Western civilization and the aforementioned categories are uniquely evil and responsible for the lion’s share – if not all – of the world’s evil.
Full article, HERE at Ammo.com
Since I’m old enough to remember the 60s pretty well, this is MY perception of what happened…
The ‘center’ of the progressive left, in those days, was Bezerkley on the outskirts of Oakland. This was also the time period when drug use was peaking among the young (primarily marijuana with some LSD thrown in around the universities). This was also when Haight Ashbury became a community based upon counterculture ideals, drugs, and music. The first head shop, Ron and Jay Thelin’s Psychedelic Shop, opened on Haight Street on January 3, 1966, offering hippies a spot to purchase marijuana and LSD, which was essential to hippie life.
The combination of the two led to protests against the Vietnam War, Selective Service, and the military. Many on the left ran to Canada, got bogus deferments, or claimed to be gay to get out of military service.
The upshot was that while there were patriots, most of them were going in the military to keep from being drafted, while the left ‘managed’ to stay in school, wangling more deferments, staying in school longer to get masters and PHDs.
They also found they could feed off the government trough during the day as ‘educators’ while protesting/getting high/having ‘fun’ with the students at night. They also started taking over the teacher’s unions… A bit of history on those, HERE and HERE. Note the Communist influence in the NY teacher’s union going back to the 1920s… And then there is the NEA, link HERE. And a current ‘example’ of professors, HERE.
The NEA, among others has been a political organization from the git go… Witness what is happening today Chicago, SFO, and other major cities over restarting in person schooling…
Anyhoo… The left got control of the education system starting in the 70s, and began indoctrinating the children, first in colleges, then in high school, and now all the way down to first grade.
IMHO, the schools have been dumbed down, social passing is now the ‘norm’ (can’t have anybody fail), everybody gets a ‘participation’ trophy, etc… And they have been indoctrinated day after day about how ‘bad’ the US is, its history, its capitalism, etc…
And now they’re going after math as being ‘white supremacy’ if you want to get the right answers… sigh…
I’m glad I’m old and won’t be around to see what happens next… But I will also admit ‘we’ were complacent. We were working hard at our jobs, based on the ethics we were raised with, to do better than our parents. And by and large we did… the cost was that we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to what our kids were being taught. And now we’re reaping that…
