Cross-Posted from DaleGlading.com
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Unless you’ve spent the past 40 years as a P.O.W. or have been sequestered in a mountaintop monastery without any contact with the outside world, it should come as no surprise to see the scores of pro-Hamas rallies (disguised as equally abhorrent pro-Palestinian protests) taking place on college campuses across America.
Discouraging and disheartening? Yes. Surprising? No.
For generations, American parents have willingly, even enthusiastically, turned their children over to liberal institutions of indoctrination – and paid handsomely for the privilege of watching them being molded into mindless automatons who mouth progressive pablum on command. Sadly, and very ironically, these former bastions of free and independent thought now shut down all dissenting opinions.
Meanwhile, the despots that control virtually every institution of higher learning from Ivy League universities to community colleges are no longer content to wait until your children are of legal age. Instead, they are aggressively coming after your kids when they are prepubescent… and far more malleable and impressionable.
There can be no other explanation for why children whose parents survived the Great Depression and defeated the Axis Powers in World War II have, in turn, sired children of their own who readily adopt Marxist teachings. Out with George Washington and in with Che Guevara.
Since Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, he has to go, too. Let’s replace him with Joseph Stalin, who murdered more than 20 million of his own countrymen. Or better yet, let’s share the transcendent wisdom of Mao Zedong, whose ill-conceived Great Leap Forward was responsible for the greatest famine in world history, resulting in 15-55 million deaths in just five years… with another 400,000 to 1.5 million Chinese citizens being killed by the Red Guard and 36-50 million being imprisoned in gulag “re-education camps,” never to be heard from again.
Please don’t confuse today’s college students with facts. They would much rather spout historically inaccurate suppositions amid their emotion-laced rants. “FREE PALESTINE” they chant in unison like a macabre scene out of the Stepford Wives. If only they had done their homework, they would know that the area in question has been ruled by more than a dozen different regimes – including the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and the Ottoman Empire – since the days of the Philistines in 1200 BC, from which Palestine gets its name.
The Palestinians had their chance in 1947 when the United Nations proposed a two-state solution, dividing the British mandate into one independent Jewish state and one independent Palestinian state. Israel accepted the plan, but the Palestinians did not, clamoring for more land. Since then, they have tried multiple times (1948, 1967, 1973 et al) to defeat Israel and confiscate the territory it controlled, only to lose war after war. Especially embarrassing was Egypt, Jordan, and Syria’s defeat by Israel in the 6-Day War, which resulted in Israel laying claim to the West Bank, the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Gaza Strip… the latter two of which have since been returned in various ill-fated land-for-peace treaties.
But again, don’t expect today’s pampered and privileged collegians to understand the basic tenet of war, which is “to the victor goes the spoils.” They simply want fairness for everyone, which is their short-sighted view means equity, not equality. In other words, they prefer socialism and its kissing cousin communism to capitalism and a merit-based society.
Surveys now show that a majority of American young people would willingly turn over all of their assets, including their paychecks, to a centralized government in exchange for a promise of cradle-to-grave care. How pathetic and how completely un-American. And it all started with progressive propaganda planted in grade school, watered and fertilized in high school, and pruned and harvested in college. Tragically, America is now reaping what has been sown in our educational system for the past 2-3 generations.
Fortunately, there is some hope on the horizon if the recent trend towards parents’ rights and parental involvement continues. However, this must become an entrenched movement, not a passing fad, because it will take at least as long to right the ship as it did to scuttle it.
In the meantime, let’s hit the Progressives where it hurts: in the pocketbook. If more parents would pull their kids out of the public school system and either teach them at home or enroll them in Christian and Parochial schools, local boards of education would be forced to reconsider their ways and make some serious course corrections… or perish, dying on the vine from a lack of funding. Increased parental involvement in public schools, which is the approach favored by conservative organizations such as Moms for Liberty, is another alternative to stemming and reversing the tide of secular humanism in education.
Either way, you’d better strap in, parents… because we’re in this for the long haul.
