Sad State of Education

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school  to teaching remedial English in college.

Joseph Sobran

An Upside Down Culture

Living in a society where it is norm for females to take roles to protect men from physical threats would have been unthinkable back in America’s saner days. It would be like imagining that when the Titanic ship famously sunk, instead of men sacrificing their lives for the women and children, women tried to save the men. If this kind of warped thinking had dominated society back then, America’s rise to greatness would have sunk right along with the Titanic. No nation can stand unless the strong protect the weak.

Yet what “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) proposes is that women act like men and become equal protectors in America. DEI is Democrats’ made-up initiative that seeks to implement a radical progressive agenda by erasing men and women’s biological differences (an ideology that mirrors the transgender movement).  

John K. Amanchukwu Sr., DEI Is Emasculating The FDNY Too, Just Like The Secret Service

Government “Goodies”

The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibly for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.

Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.81

Politics

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems—of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.77

Dumbing Down of Education

Thousands of students graduate each year, from even the most prestigious schools and colleges in the country, with no real knowledge of history and no real analytical skills at dissecting opposing views. It was once the proud boast of educators that “We are her to teach you how to think, not what to think.” But today, all too many educators see the classroom as a golden opportunity for them to indoctrinate a captive audience.

The specifics for their indoctrination are not the biggest problem. Quite aside from the merits or demerits of the specific indoctrination—whether “global warming” or the new trinity of “race, class and gender—what the indoctrination process does is get students used to hearing one side of issues and being urged to reach conclusions and act on that grossly inadequate basis. Such an “education” sets them up to become victims of the next skilled demagogue who comes along and who knows what kinds of rhetoric will get them to respond as automatically as Pavlov’s dog.

Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.72

Common With Demokrats

Soviet America May Be Sooner Than You Expect

Among the elementary measures the American Soviet government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the school, colleges and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology. The students will be taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and the general ethics of the new Socialist society.

William Z. Foster, Toward Soviet America (1932). Cited by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.111.

President Carter gave us the Department of Education and the LEFT is continuing to follow the plan of education cited by Foster.

Socialism to Communism

To the Marxist, socialism is the first phase or first stepping the transition to the perfect economic system, which is communism. Socialism begins with heavy taxation, government takeover of businesses, and the elimination of laws protecting private property.

Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, by Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, pg. 106-107.

Sound familiar?

The Real Reason for Abortion

When Democrats and progressives argue that abortion is about “women’s health” or “choice,” what they actually mean is they want to be able to have sex with whoever they want, whenever they want, without any responsibility whatsoever—even at the expense of sacrificing their children.

Marsha West, Pagan Idolatry and The Democrats’ Quest For Unfettered Sex

1984?

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words!

Samuel Adams

Post-modern Ideology

To Postmodernists there is no human nature. There is only and ever-evolving, highly sexual social animal with multiple subjective interests crying out for recognition and acceptance.

Jeff Myers & David A. Noebel, Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews, pg.163

Universal Health Care?

People who believe in “universal health care” show remarkably little interest—usually none—in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada

For one thing, “universal health care” in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days. In these and other countries, it means having only a fraction as many MRIs and other high-tech medical devices available per person as in the United States.

In Sweden, it means not only having bureaucrats deciding what medicines the government will and will not pay for, but even preventing you from buying the more expensive medicine for yourself with your own money. That would violate the “equality” that is the magic mantra.

Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.57

The Need for “Profiling”

We have become so obsessed with political correctness that both common sense and self-preservation have to take a back seat. We don’t dare “profile” anybody going through security checks because that’s not politically correct. Far better to be blown to smithereens than to be politically incorrect.

Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.47

Racial Disparity Is Not Necessarily Racist

 

Study History

One of the painful consequences of studying history is that it makes you realize how long people have been doing the same foolish things with the same disastrous results.

Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.44

Are You a Right Wing Extremist?

According to an official document of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, right wing extremists include “groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.” It also includes those “rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority."

Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America, pg.26

Don't Be Silent!