History and Knowledge Disappear in the Progressive American Education System

By

       M. Richard Maxson

                James Madison, known as the "father" of the Constitution, wrote, 
                 "A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."

     For the last fifty or sixty years now our youth have been under an intense indoctrination program in our public schools and universities. American history is no longer taught, but instead a revisionist history of this country is force fed down our children’s throats by “educators” whose own anti-American biases are obvious. When we censor our history by disguising our scars, we belittle the struggles our ancestors fought so hard to overcome. Today, in America, schools have become nothing more than ‘leftist indoctrination centers’. 
 
      One effect is that many of the rising generation can

go from elementary school through postgraduate education at our leading colleges and universities without ever hearing a coherent presentation of a vision of the world or our own country that is fundamentally different from that of the political left. There are professors at either elite or non-elite academic institutions that have been shouted down, forced out, or even physically assaulted when they tried to give a historical point of view that challenged the prevailing political correctness.

       As children, the young Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Marquis de Lafayette did something our children don’t do today. They studied the past. These children studied how ancient civilizations governed, what the world’s most brilliant philosophers thought and why man acts as he does across time. Seeds of knowledge and understanding were planted in these mere children so they knew how a healthy government should operate to serve its people, and how its people should in turn conduct themselves.

If our Founders returned today, they might be alarmed by the widespread ignorance of American history and civics among U.S. citizens.

• For example, slightly more than half (53%) of Americans do not know that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States are called the "Bill of Rights."

• A third of Americans (33%) do not know who delivered the Gettysburg Address. A sizable minority (42%) of Americans do not know the title of the national anthem.

• The scores also indicate that four in five Americans (83%) cannot name the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist.

• Three in 10 (31%) are unable to name the current vice president of the United States.....and it goes on.
  

      There are more educated people than ever before, but fewer people who seem capable of thinking. In general, Republicans outscored Democrats on most of the questions asked. However, this difference likely results from the fact that Republicans tend to be better-educated than Democrats are.  

      What our educational system is producing is cultural amnesia, a wholesale lack of curiosity, historyless clones of our children, and educational goals composed buzzwords like “critical thinking,” “diversity,” “ways of knowing,” “social justice,” and “cultural competence.” Our education system now excels at producing perfectly hollowed vessels, receptive and obedient, without any common culture or shared history. 

 

     These findings are cause for deep concern. If knowledge of these basic components of American history and civics are lost, then the American system of representative democracy could be lost as well.

The World's View of the United States is Far Different than It's Citizens are Led to Believe

by

       Phillip Todd

      According to a global survey of 66,000 people conducted across 68 countries by the Worldwide Independent Network of Market Research (WINMR) and Gallup International at the end of 2013, Earth’s people see the United States as the leading threat to peace on the planet. The U.S. was voted top threat by a wide margin.

      Four NATO powers prefer Russia to the US, Gallup poll shows. A Gallup poll has revealed that citizens of four NATO nations would sooner count on Russia to defend them rather than the United States. People from Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria and Slovenia - all members of the transatlantic NATO alliance - opted for Russia when asked whom they felt they could count on if they felt under threat. 

 SHOCKED? 
              
          - Read comments from people who know:


      “I’ve been a journalist for about 25 years, and I was educated to lie, to betray, and not to tell the truth to the public. But seeing right now within the last months how the German and American media tries to bring war to the people in Europe, to bring war to Russia — this is a point of no return and I’m going to stand up and say it is not right what I have done in the past, to manipulate people, to make propaganda against Russia, and it is not right what my colleagues do and have done in the past because they are bribed to betray the people, not only in Germany, all over Europe.”
                - Dr. Udo Ulfkotte is a top German journalist and editor

      "The global war on terrorism is a US undertaking, which is fake, it’s based on fake premises. It tells us that somehow America and the Western world are going after a fictitious enemy, the Islamic state, when in fact the Islamic state is fully supported and financed by the Western military alliance and America’s allies in the Persian Gulf. The global war on terrorism is a fabrication, a big lie and a crime against humanity.” 

   - Michel Chossudovsky, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Ottawa

      "The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist

group called Al-Qaeda, and any informed intelligence officer knows this. But, there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an intensified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the United States.”
            – Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook

       "The gross misallocation of resources is a function of American capitalism and how its economy is dominated by a grotesque military-industrial complex."
         - Irish Journalist, Finian Cunningham


 Read comments from everyday people in Europe:

      "US are the biggest terrorist in the world. Fortunately an increasing number of countries are realising this. Russian's don't need any help recruiting anyone (spies) as long as New Yorkers continue to vote Communists into power." - somanysmidgens 

      "We do not criticize the western media. We just conclude that it is a total scam presenting propaganda and disinformation. The stage when the western media deserved just to be critizised is long gone." - brianperspectives

       "Considering the guns, 'big brother' mentality, greed and 'americintricity', it certainly has lost its appeal. Lots of other places to go if you want warm weather and a friendly atmosphere." - remtoo

 

 

STILL SHOCKED?

       If you are, you have not yet gone beyond the

propaganda field of the elitist western media. Please read news from around the world to get ALL the facts in order to form a proper opinion. Please do and remember this - when you turn on your television that EVERYTHING that comes from it is fantasy. The fact is that the networks on CNN and MSNBC are listed by the FCC as "entertainment channels" - NOT news. Let that sink in.

 

The Deep State Takes Control of America

By

M. Richard Maxson


This series of articles continues to examine what the shadow government and the deep state are and how they have gained so much control over the U.S. government and society in general.

      In Truman’s view, misuse of the CIA began in February 1953, when his successor, Dwight Eisenhower, named Allen Dulles as CIA director. 

 

EISENHOWER

      After their successful coup in Iran, Dulles and his cohorts had allowed themselves no restraints. Along with his brother Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, they partnered up with those who comprised the Shadow Government, and working in concert they began launching violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. President Eisenhower, relying on the brothers, was kept partially in the dark and was not given all the details of their operations but with a glance, a nod, and a few words, to the president, the brothers could mobilize the full power of the United States anywhere in the world as it suited them. The Deep State had exploded.

      The major covert campaigns under the Eisenhower administration were:

• 1953 - Iran – CIA overthrows the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh in a military coup, after he threatened to nationalize British oil. The CIA replaces him with a dictator, the Shah of Iran, whose secret police, SAVAK, is as brutal as the Gestapo.
  
• 1954 - Guatemala — CIA overthrows the democratically elected Jacob Arbenz in a military coup. Arbenz has threatened to nationalize the Rockefeller-owned United Fruit Company, in which CIA Director Allen Dulles also owns stock. Arbenz is replaced with a series of right-wing dictators whose bloodthirsty policies will kill over 100,000 Guatemalans in the next 40 years.
  
• 1954-1958 - North Vietnam — CIA officer Edward Lansdale spends four years trying to overthrow the communist government of North Vietnam, using all the usual dirty tricks. The CIA also attempts to legitimize a tyrannical puppet regime in South Vietnam, headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. These efforts fail to win the hearts and minds of the South Vietnamese because the Diem government is opposed to true democracy, land reform and poverty reduction measures. The CIA’s continuing failure results in escalating American intervention, culminating in the Vietnam War.
• 1957- Laos — The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos’ democratic elections. The problem is the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an "Armee Clandestine" of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao.
  
  

      These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries from Cuba to Iran. The Deep State was formed and it's forte became overthrowing governments (in current parlance, “regime change”) and they were quite good at it.

      Towards the end of his term, after battling health problems which allowed Richard Nixon to run the country for a while, President Eisenhower grew extremely wary of what he was seeing develop inside the government. On January 17, 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower closed out his second term and delivered his farewell speech on live TV and warned Americans of a threat far more deadly than the Soviets and the Chinese. He issued an unprecedented warning that almost no one paid attention to at the time. He warned of a behind-the-scenes shift in Washington DC that had “grave implications ” for America. He revealed the dark side of American power…a shadow government… a group of unelected insiders that threatened to take full control of the U.S.

      He revealed to the American public that because of our previous wars - “We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.” Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.”

      “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” 

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, January 1961

      He warned us although of the danger that was becoming, although he did not fully comprehend the size and scope of the monster that had been created. Eisenhower did not fully realize that the Dulles' brothers “Deep State”had all but taken clandestine control of US foreign policy. It was as an adolescent, and with it's success at undermining regimes around the world and working together, with the elitist shadow government it was growing at a rapid rate - as a cancer would.

      The new government within a government spurred on more covert activities in order to intercept possible challenges to, in the Dulles' brothers mind, and maintain dominance of, the United States – without congressional or the public's ability to regulate or approve of their actions. Cuba was the next big prize on the brothers agenda. America did not realize that it's elected representatives had lost control over their own foreign policy.

Fed Up Democrats "Walk Away" from Their Party

By


        Zeno Potas


      “These are the reasons why I became a liberal. And these are the same reasons I am now walking away.” Ex-liberals and “lifelong Democrats” of all backgrounds are leaving and are no longer concerned about the backlash from others because they’ve left the party. The social media campaign called #WalkAway has gone viral with videos of people declaring they no longer support the Left’s liberal agenda.


      The Left’s anti-Trump pro-Socialism agenda and identity politics has resulted in ex-liberals taking to social media to express their frustrations of the Democrat party and the media. “I reject a system which allows an ambitious, misinformed and dogmatic mob to suppress free speech, create false narratives, and apathetically steamroll over the truth,” stated founder ex-liberal, Brandon Straka. In the video that kicked off his campaign, Straka said that he had watched with grave concern as “the Left devolved into intolerant, inflexible, illogical, hateful, misguided, ill-informed, un-American, hypocritical, menacing, callous, ignorant, narrow-minded, and at times blatantly fascistic behavior and rhetoric.”


       Accusing Democrats of cultivating a victim mentality among the party’s minority supporters, Straka argues that its attempt to portray a person of color, a woman, an LGTB person, a migrant as a “victim of systemic oppression” is the party’s “greatest and most insidious lie” – which is needed so minorities will see their saviors to be Democrats, who in fact do nothing to improve their situations. Some 5 million people on Facebook and YouTube have seen the video by now.

      The #Walkaway campaign has helped thousands of disillusioned Democrats regain their own voices and push back against “oppression,” herd mentality, and incivility from the Left and it's minions in the media. “It is up to all of us to make our voices heard and reclaim the truth. The Democratic Party has taken for granted that it owns racial, sexual, and religious minorities in America. It has encouraged groupthink, hypocrisy, division, stereotyping, resentment, and the acceptance of victimhood mentality. And all the while, they have discouraged minorities from having independent thought, open dialogue, measured and informed opinion, and a motivation to succeed.” - Brandon Straka

      It is enough to search for the hashtag #WalkAway on Twitter or Facebook to see how the campaign has taken on like wildfire, spawning an entire cottage industry of personal testimonials and “conversion” stories of how people woke up to the false promises of liberalism. Hre, below, are testimonials of Americans who have regained their sense of of country, on patriotism, of truth.

 

 

 

 

 

     

      Patriotic Americans are coming to their senses by use of critical thinking - rejecting the"do as you are told and we'll take care of you and decide your future for you" pablum of the Leftist Socialist wave that is turning the Democratic party into anti-representative - anti-Constitutionals.This country needs more patriotic independent Constitutionalists. So we say to those who can clearly see - Walk Away.



 

Walk Away - Why Democrats Are Loosing Minority Groups

By

       Zeno Potas

      The vast majority of Americans can differentiate between common sense and hate. Today’s liberals seemingly cannot. Liberalism today is OBSESSED with “hate.” Today’s Democrat Party spends an exorbitant amount of time preaching against “hate,” “the politics of hate,” etc. It’s seemingly become the central theme of all the party touches.  Liberals don’t seem to understand that calling someone “a racist” or “a xenophobe” who is not a racist or a xenophobe doesn’t drive them toward you — it drives them away. Through their constant name calling of the American people they have driven all but their hyper-loyal, hyper-left base, the Black Lives Matter and Antifa members of the world, farther away. For all their talk about “ending hate,” an undivided America, peace, love, and granola — it’s liberals who are out looting, fighting, burning, shooting in the streets. The majority of Americans, regardless of party affiliation, don’t want to have anything to do with it, them…and increasingly you, Democrats.

      A perfect example of this backlash is Brandon Straka, the unlikely liberator and new face of the “silent minority” of Americans who’ve been cast out by family and friends, fired from jobs, and forced into silent social ghettos for their failure to “get it” about how hateful and dangerous Donald Trump is. Brandon is gay, but not a sheep. He used his ability for critical analytical thinking to see the real truth of what the Democratic party is doing, or not doing, for himself and others.

      Critical analytical thinking means looking very closely at the detail and not taking what you read or are told for granted. It involves NOT believing everything you see and hear but;

• Evaluating how far sources and materials are up-to-date and relevant

• Evaluating if the evidence or examples used support the points or claims made
• Evaluating opinions, arguments or solutions using appropriate criteria and benchmarks
• Following a line of reasoning through to its logical conclusion
• Checking for bias or unfounded assumptions
• Evaluating the argument to check that the evidence presented really does support the conclusions drawn.
  
  

      Brandon Straka, who grew up in a small town in Nebraska, was on board with the fear and loathing campaign around Trump until he began asking people back home why they had voted for him. To his astonishment, they told him about Obama-era regulations that had crippled their small businesses. He started to research media slander like the one about Trump supposedly mocking a disabled reporter. When he found that it was a total distortion, he kept going, his anger rising. “This was a matter of the media specifically using and manipulating people’s deepest fears, based on legitimate traumas,” he explained. “Many gay people have experienced very serious homophobia and even physical violence. Can you imagine manipulating a domestic violence survivor’s fears just for political purposes? It’s insane. I reject hate. And at that point I was like, I can’t do it anymore. I really can’t. I had to speak up,” he said. “Once upon a time, I was a liberal. Well, to be honest, less than a year ago, I was still a liberal, but I reject a system which allows an ambitious, misinformed and dogmatic mob to suppress free speech, create false narratives, and apathetically steamroll over the truth.” 

 
      Brandon put out a video that expresses his views, as a gay man, as an American, and as a human being who is tried of the lies. It is a must see for all patriots and free thinkers. (You can see it below) Since Straka published his confessional video on May 26, his life as a New York City hairdresser and aspiring actor has been overtaken by a tidal wave of support. He is now fielding a constant barrage of newcomers’ testimonial letters, videos, and emails— sometimes over 1,000 per day.


      Some 5 million people on Facebook and YouTube have seen the video by now. A very handsome gay man, who you just assume is about to scold you on progressive talking points, instead says this: “These are the reasons why I became a liberal. And these are the same reasons why I am now walking away.” His assessment of the Democrats: “From immigration to everything, they are just a disaster. They’re anti-American, anti-common sense, anti-rational—anything good, they’re against it.”


      Those who are walking away are, in many cases, lifelong Democrats who simply could not take it any longer and have longed for this very moment, when somebody like them would make it safe for them to come out of the closet and speak their minds about the hypocrisy of the American Left and the Democratic party. I was so angry at how we were being terrorized,” Straka said. “Then I thought, why should I limit it to just us? They’re doing the same thing to black people. And Hispanic people. And frankly, they’re doing the same thing to everybody in one way or another. It’s really the minorities in America who don’t feel like we have a choice. That’s what they keep telling us over and over: ‘You’re not safe on the right. They don’t want you on the right. They hate you on the right. You’re only safe with us. We are here to protect you.’ Meanwhile, are you kidding me? You’re here to ‘protect’ me? All you are doing is use my fears to scare the [expletive] out of me—to terrify me and to try to manipulate the way that I vote. At that point I was like, I can’t do it anymore. I really can’t, he stated. “You know, listen, I’m a gay guy from New York City, but before that, I’m an American, I’m a Patriot.”

 

Today I’m kicking off the #WalkAway campaign by releasing my video about why I am walking away from liberalism and the Democratic Party. It is my sincere hope that you will join me in this campaign and that we may start a movement in this country- which not only encourages others to walk away from the divisive left, but also takes back the narrative from the liberal media about what it means to be a conservative in America. It is up to all of us to make our voices heard and reclaim the truth.
The Democratic Party has taken for granted that it owns racial, sexual, and religious minorities in America. It has encouraged groupthink, hypocrisy, division, stereotyping, resentment, and the acceptance of victimhood mentality. And all the while, they have discouraged minorities from having independent thought, open dialogue, measured and informed opinion, and a motivation to succeed.
Please like and share my video, and please post your own #WalkAway video!! If you are a former liberal who has walked away from the left, please share your story, or your message, or your thoughts in a video on the WalkAway Campaign Facebook Page.
If you are a lifelong conservative or non-Democrat, please share your story, message, or thoughts on what it truly means to be a conservative. Right now, the liberal media continues to perpetuate a false narrative about the “hateful” and “bigoted” right. Use your voice to let people know who conservatives really are. Be sure to use the hashtag #WalkAway.
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