Brainwashing the Next Generation

by

       M. Richard Maxson

     As a Constitutionalist, I know you understand the danger of the liberal and Progressive movement and its assault on America's Constitution and its underlying principles of liberty and limited government. Too many of our elected officials are ignoring or actively opposing the limits of government established by the Constitution and expanding the interference of government into our everyday lives. Decades of Progressive Socialist influence on our public schools and "elite" universities have distorted the basic truths of our country.

    "In the 1940s and 1950s public school courses such as history and literature were largely up to the individual teacher. Consequently, there was a lot of diversity in what was taught. As time passed, especially after the 1964 Civil Rights Act and school integration, courses became increasingly standardized, partly in order to judge school performance with standardized state or national testing, and partly, to ensure that minorities were not offended by course content.  The obvious consequence is that a form of national brainwashing was put in place that instilled in the young acceptable beliefs  about their country that are foreign to us and to the Constitituion principals of our nation.

      The Progressive Socialist slant is now the bedrock of our government school system. Ideals of the Left are exalted while the ideals of the center or right are demonized. These are some of the ongoing un-American ideals that our children and young adults are being taught and exposed to without repudiation.

• The idealogy of separation, that we are not ALL Americans. They teach that you

  

  are an Arab-American or an African-American or a Latino-American, not just AN AMERICAN.

  
  

• Schools and colleges are laying a guilt trip on those young people whose parents are productive, and who are raising them to become productive. What is amazing is how easily this has been done, largely just by replacing the word "achievement" with the word "privilege."

• A world history book used in an Advanced Placement class has a 36-page chapter on Islam but no chapters on Christianity or Judaism.

• The United States of America is revising history textbooks and it is described as "a radical revisionist look at American history that emphasizes negative aspects of our country's history, omitting or minimizing positive aspects. The United States, like any other country, has something to be ashamed of, a new history textbook for high schools (Advanced Placement US history course)

• The current United States history texts have a whole section on slavery and how evil [Americans] are," the killing of millions of Japanese with two atomic bombs in World War II, and other events. There's only two paragraphs in there about George Washington. Little or nothing about Dr. Martin Luther King.

•  The “American Diversity” class was taught to students at Delavan-Darien High School in Wisconsin exposed students to radical leftist thinkers and promoted a critical race theory that alleges white people are oppressors. “They’re teaching white guilt,” one parent stated.

   

      This Communist theory was first expounded in the 1920s and 1930s by Italian

Marxist Antonio Gramsci, who argued that traditional values must be obliterated in order to free "oppressed" social groups. It called for eliminating social decorum and glorifying perverse behavior in order to destroy the Western middle class and collapse society from within. Translated into today's terminology, the plan prescribed the commandeering of news and entertainment media, religious and financial institutions, organized labor, health care, and education. That has already happened here as Cultural Marxism has gained momentum in education for over forty years. So camouflaged has been the use of Gramsci's brainchild that most education school indoctrinees -- K-12 teachers -- have never really weighed the consequences of conditioning students to reject a moral and prosperous America.

 

      In our country, materials to instruct our youth should promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights. Materials should not encourage or condone civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law, but that is

exactly what is happening under the pretext of equal rights.  Parents have long known that something was wrong but have accepted the deterioration of children's morality and common sense for the sake of the "tolerance" that progressive educators demand. The self-censorship inherent in political  correctness has silenced parents for fear of being branded "intolerant," "mean," "overly judgmental," or, heaven forbid,  "conservative." Patriotic Americans are and have been under attack by people committed to tearing down anything that is good about our nation and replacing it with their distorted vision of what we should be. Their view is a  a Leftists view, a Socialist/Marxist view, NOT a traditional American view. This is the point of view that our youth is being indoctrinated with. Is it any wonder that our nation is being torn apart, not only outside the country, but also from within.