Americans--Soft, Spoiled, Indoctrinated?

Americans are soft, spoiled, and in denial. We are in a real war--one that can be lost. And most are not even aware of the real consequences of what losing this war will mean to them. We must snap out of our self-imposed state of denial before it's too late.

You know, I remember Khruschev telling us that they (Communists) would get us through our children. We thought, sure, it's possible, but we're too smart to let THAT happen. And our children would be too.

Even before Nikita, Joseph Stalin said, "Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." They both KNEW, even then, that we were so enamoured with indiscriminate knowledge that those in charge at our educational institutions could be lured into embracing, exploring, and encouraging the flourishing of ideas, even self-destructive ones, amongst our student bodies.

They also knew that concepts sometimes work well on paper, but not historically in reality. And that some theoretical ideals are easier to embrace before one lives long enough to experience much. Of course, those people are the most vulnerable--those easiest to brainwash. They are also the next generation of our country's leaders, and, in order to further an agenda where there is no difference between right and wrong, the "teaching" our youth began.

Today we have bell hooks* an example of the grave depravity of values influencing our college youth:

"In addition to encouraging the students at Southwestern to condemn the future because caring about it is a patriarchal capitalist construct, hooks slammed the war on terrorism and equated conservatism with murder. Consider this rubbish from her castigation of the assembly:

The radical, dissident voices among you have learned here at Southwestern how to form communities of resistance that have helped you find your way in the midst of life-threatening conservatism, loneliness, and the powerful forces of everyday fascism which use the politics of exclusion and ostracism to maintain the status quo. Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.'

Unfortunately...she plays a major role in deciding what will be taught at universities regarding issues of race, gender, and social construct..."*

"The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), a non-profit group dedicated to academic freedom, reported on a whole host of extraordinarily revealing comments made by faculty and staff at respected universities across the country. If you're wondering what mentality drives those who have been charged with developing and molding the minds of the next generation, here are some examples:

. "Anybody who can blow up the Pentagon gets my vote,"--professor of history, University of New Mexico.

. "{W}e should be aware that, whatever its proximate cause, its ultimate cause is the fascism of US foreign policy over the past many decades."--professor of English, Rutgers University

. "[The American flag is] a symbol of terrorism and death and fear and destruction and oppression."--professor of physics, University of Massachussetts--Amherst

. "[I]magine the real suffering and grief of people in other countries. The best way to begin a war on terrorism might be to look in the mirror."--professor of anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.**

These comments represent an Intellectual Elite that is completely out of touch with the attitudes and values of the average person in this country. When faced with a monumental tragedy, those in charge of higher learning exposed their moral vacancy by blaming America first....**

Anti-Americanism is part of the doctrine on campuses across our country.

"The left are no longer able to see the simplest of truths embodied by 9/11: American stands for progress, equity, and freedom. We educate people (both men and women, thank you), help make dreams for the future come true, and create a society in which individuals can thrive. Radical Islamists, as a cultural phenonmenon, cut people's throats, destroy buildings, murder huge numbers of people, and condemn the future.***

"...instead of trying to subvert Americans whose character were already formed, the Left decided to start from the ground up--by parasitically infesting our nation's secondary schools, colleges, and graduate schools to indoctrinate each generation as it came along. They hate themselves and hate this country, and they are determined to not be alone.

The first step for the Intellectual Elite is to unmake and then remake history itself. Smear the Founding Fathers, cast patriotism as jingoistic, and classify the United States as a genocidal nation bent on terrorism, from its founding to today. On campuses across the country, pride in our country and patriotism are deemed "offensive" and banned. Fewer high schools and colleges are requiring students to take US history courses, and when history is discussed, men like George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson are deconstructed and maligned. Someone like Ronald Reagan usually isn't discussed at all, and if he is, it is to complete the vilification. Courses on Western culture and history are attacked as "racist" and often eliminated because the reality of white European men's role in the shaping of world history offends and upsets multiculturalists. Ever since the 1960s, students have been told that everything is relative, judgment is verboten, and if it feels good, do it, while decency and morality are cast as deviant concepts used by the oppressor... Society's reward for allowing malignant narcissists to take control of our universities is a series of political and business scandals replete with lies, abuse, theft and the ruination of lives.****

The malignant narcissists are in the process of indoctrinating our youth with socialism, multiculturalism and moral relativism. And remembering the quote from Stalin that I opened with: "Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." we should not be pleased, nor wonder why. With their proud national history erased from current curriculum, our children will never feel the need for (self)preservation of our Nation and the principles on which it was founded. The larger question is, "To what end are we allowing this hostile takeover of our children's minds?"

Teaching western civilization's history and other real academics in our public schools is vital. Our students are turning out in record numbers with less ability in science, mathematics, history, languages, and literature. The place to learn an accurate accounting of the past so we are not doomed to repeat it is in our schools. The place for value setting is in the child's home and his or her place of worship.

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*bell hooks- "...radical teacher City College of NY who tours the country giving speeches specially designed to reach young minds with her gutter message of hate, self-loathing, and hopelessness..." Source: Tammy Bruce, The Death of Right and Wrong, C. 2003, Prima Publishing, Roseville, CA., p 158. www.primapublishing.com

** Ibid, pg 160

*** Ibid, pg 161

**** Ibid., pg 162

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Source: The Death of Right and Wrong, Tammy Bruce,, Prima Publishing, Roseville, CA, C. 2003

Cartoon credit: http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000795.html

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Related anti-Americanism additional quote from bell hooks:

...I think that nationalism has undermined revolutionary Black struggle. It’s no accident that people like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were destroyed at those moments of their political careers when they had begun to critique nationalism as a platform of organization; and where, in fact, they replace nationalism with a critique of imperialism; which then, unites us with the liberation struggles of so many people on the planet. If we don’t have that kind of global perspective about our social realities, we will never be able to re-envision a revolutionary movement for Black self-determination that is non-exclusive, and doesn’t assume some kind of patriarchal nationhood. Many of our African nations have failed precisely because they lacked a revolutionary vision for social change that worked, and not because they didn’t have a nation. So, Black Americans must be very, very cautious in embracing the notion of a nation as the redemptive location. The redemptive location lies in our radical politics and the strategies by which we implement those radical politics--not with the formation of a nation.

Full article here from Challenging Capitalism and Patriarchy