The greatest systemic enemy of American ideology is Progressivism. And no institution is more steeped and infested with proselytizing progressives than academia. The American education system USED to be the best in the world, but it has been corrupted by anti-American, anti-human ideologues until now it is only the Indoctrination arm of Progressivism. Inner city schools are the worst, surrendering completely any goals of literacy, history, and critical thinking. The 3 R's have become Robbery, Rape, and Racism. Basic literacy is ignored, but the students can parrot all the progressive tenets of faith: Global Warming! Socialism is cool! America is evil! Godless Naturalism! White People Bad! Drugs are Great! Moral Relativity! Educated People are Superior! Groupthink loyalty! Safe Space in progressive echo chambers! Year after year, for decades, these institutions of Indoctrination have produced hordes of progressive indoctrinees, nodding in unison like bobbleheads, at the pontifications that the High Priests of Progressivism decree. They are DIRECTLY responsible for the current breakdown of the culture: riots, looting, destruction of monuments, race baiting, identity politics, and division that is so prevalent America at this time. It is a deadly poison, sowing discord and division among Americans, and is an internal enemy to the principles of American liberty and the constitutional republic. What can be done? 1. Recognize the Enemy. This is not some benign difference of opinion, or a different flavor of American culture, but is fundamentally at enmity with the basic principles of the American Experiment. They envision a marxist based collectivist fantasy, not anything resembling America. Black lives matter is a repackaged black panthers, with the same marxists and anarchists promoting violence and destruction. They want to destroy America, not preserve it. They are violent racists, masquerading as civil rights activists. 2. Defund academia. This is the only way. As long as we pay them to deceive us and our children, they will continue to do so. Anti-American, revolutionary ideologues will have to be eradicated from the teaching pool, and without public funding it will wither. 3. Standardize curricula. Demand a level of ability in basic education and literacy, and defund the religious Indoctrination from ideologues, ESPECIALLY those hostile to American principles of freedom. Include civics and history (the real kind, not the revised distortions from deceivers). 4. Arrest insurrectionists and traitors, who promote an anti-American political agenda. Treason is a crime. Why should it go unchecked, in our public institutions? Do we wish to preserve this Experiment in Freedom and self rule, or morph into some socialist hell hole, with tyrants and elites dictating our every thought and action? There has not been a more distinct choice, in the election of 2020 since 1860. America, or tear it down for some collectivist fantasy. Reason, or submit to decrees. Equality or elitism. Lawlessness or social Order. Enlightenment or the dark ages. This is not a time for silence and passivity. Rise and fight! Enemies have overrun us! The precious gift of American Freedom is not a constant theme in the history of humanity. It must be fought for, defended, and preserved in every generation.
No, it is a Constitutional Republic. If you want to destroy the American Experiment, do it the old fashioned way, with revolution. You can then insert whatever socialist fantasy you wish, and revise history so that the dream of America is forgotten.
The irony is that the anti-American progressives, who hate the police, law, and equal treatment , would install a police State, with their ideological jack boots enforcing and mandating conformity to the madness and folly of Progressivism.
*tips circus hat* Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Non binary kittens of all ages! Look what we have here! A conservative who doesn’t believe in freedom of speech! Watch as they clown around saying that academics are brainwashing youth, despite the fact that academics need freedom of speech to communicate ideas effectively in an academic environment! Watch as the responses go “but our youth need a standardized education to make sure they can compete, they need to be taught the facts!”. Of course this is a blatantly terrible idea in of itself, but don’t let the clown noses fool you! After all, isn’t that just censorship by another name that can infringe on various schools of thought? How do you standardize ideas, when there are lots already ignored in the US higher education system? Watch the clowns as they justify ignoring neocolonialism, despite it being a serious idea that influences lots of governments to this day. Watch as they don’t understand the academic process and instead decide to decry “elites controlling our education”! When in actuality it’s the fact they don’t get how education works in the first place and why less control is needed in academia to give professors more space to talk and freely discuss ideas. Don’t worry, you’ll still get your standardization via academic journals folks! Because if you’re not going to pay your professors the wages they deserve, they’re going to have to write in academic journals to advance their career, despite this leading to fewer women and minority ideas being shared which are needed to advance science.
..mock and jeer all you want. It does not mask your anti-American agenda, or the destruction your ideology promotes. I doubt you would enjoy the results, if your dream of a collectivist fantasy were realized, and the Experiment in Freedom ended..
Dear lord, keep that up and the lions might start weeping at the sound of the national anthem. My ideology? My ideology says there are people in society who are considered voiceless and we should talk about those people and bring light to their experiences. Your ideology? Relies on personal attacks, terrible nationalistic rhetoric and a crude failure of understanding what academia is and it’s purpose in a civilized society. I’m seeing the clown part, just tell us the punchline.
"End freedom by ending freedom!" Sell it somewhere else, dude. America's college system has produced the minds that power the American Experiment. Computer scientist, Business Professionals, Doctors, Nurses ... millions of high producing employees and business owners have come from the halls of American colleges and school systems. You try to judge the many off the actions of the few. Hell, the very internet you are communicating with was born in labs of the "communist" California University system, in conjunction with Federal research money. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been generated by research partnerships between the government and Universities around the country. Huge advances in medicine and computer science are the result of those partnerships. And you want to end it all because of a few weeks of protests? WTF.
Watch as illiteracy takes its hold! I already responded, my response is simple. You don’t know anything about how academia works, and your proposal is in of itself the most laughable proposition I’ve heard.
Odd thing how this wasn't answered during that furious cloud of smoke she pumped out to hide you were right.
Sure as long as they don't start talking crap about America and insist we abandon our form of government, our culture, our faith, our values, our morality, our patriotism and national pride, our laws, our Constitution and that we support them from the cradle to the grave.
Do you hate your child when you tell him that he can do better at something? A true American can say that America can do better without hating America.
In answer to your "What can be done" question, instead of this endless whining and griping about liberalism and/or progressivism running rampant in public schools, why don't conservatives get down off their high horses, roll up their sleeves, and TEACH! All you guys do is whine about it, but none of you seem to want to take on the job of teacher. How pathetic can you all get?
BWAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHA! The extremist right is AFRAID of EDUCATION and LEARNING! Guess who else advocated the same odious ideas expressed in the OP? https://www.theholocaustexplained.o...trolling-everyday-life/controlling-education/ Hardly a dime's worth of difference between what the OP is advocating and what actually happened in the past. Those who are incapable of LEARNING from the lessons of HISTORY are DOOMED to REPEAT those same mistakes. Needless to say the OP will dismiss this LEGITIMATE COMPARISON because he doesn't have the ability to DEFEND his own ODIOUS and UNAMERICAN proposal to DESTROY one of the cornerstones of our nation.
..many do, and live under constant censorship and bullying. Have you ever known a conservative teacher?
Yes, the progressive hijacking of the American education system is very similar to the exclusive Indoctrination from socialist and totalitarian systems of the last century, and even now, in many places. Censorship and bullying are the primary tactics, of these totalitarian promoters, whose only agenda is the destruction of America.
Progressivism is anti-science, as well, preferring mandated conformity to sound scientific methodology. Bullying, censorship, and banning, are the preferred tactics of these enemies of knowledge and freedom.