RE: The Most Honest 3 Minutes in TV History
The deliberate dumbing down of America and tolerating the extreme leftist dominated Universities has led to the inevitable squabbles between groups vying for victimhood status on the totem pole. What so many don't realize is the extremely corrosive effect these "us vs them" squabbles have on the country. They originate with toxic ideologies drummed into college students by far left professors who haven't really worked a day in their lives in a real job. But they believe that they should be compensated equally with a business person who has built a company and has reaped the rewards. Their envy drives their passion to espouse ideologies designed to divide and sow chaos.
The usual leftist thought is that you take over a country by dividing it into warring groups because your group is far inferior in numbers. By keeping the population divided, you dilute their strength. You pit them against each other by sex/gender, race, income, sexual preference, abortion rights, voting rights, generational warfare and on a bunch of other issues.
While that has been happening, you have been infiltrating education, media, Hollywood, and high government positions in both state and local governments, such as Attorney General and Secretary of State. You get your people into judgeships, mayors, Governors. You quietly take over the school boards.
All this has happened because the average American was asleep. We didn't know that this could happen here. We were too busy working, spending time with families, enjoying our lives. We didn't understand the threat. We didn't understand that "freedom isn't free" is more than just a slogan but requires us to keep an eye on what is happening. That means we need to know just who the people are that we are voting on. We most certainly did not know or understand the enemy among us - progressives, Marxists, Maoists, Socialists, and Communists. Those extremists have a different perspective and work for generations to reach a goal. They have a long plan. We, as a people have a short attention span.
We've had bad government for quite some time now. We grouse about it but know that nothing happens to make things better. We've sensed that something is broken in our system. It is not that our system is broken, it is that it is being abused by authoritarians that refuse to work in it by the rules. Our system does not have enough tools built in to deal with this kind of problem and those we do have are compromised and don't work.
What many forget is what John Adams said. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." As religion has been shrinking in this country, we seem to have tolerated more and more as a society. Most of what we are tolerating has been pushed hard by the left. More and more, the moral people who dislike and push back against these changes have been silenced or have decided to stay silent. Alinsky's rules state that ridicule is the most powerful weapon and it has been used on those who object with effective brutality, often with the assistance of the media..
Much of his speech focused on things that we took our eyes off of or didn't consider them as important as they had been when this country was truly leading the world. Can education be fixed? We really need to study what the most successful nations educationally are doing. We are still running an educational system that is essentially a factory system. We really need to re-imagine it. The average high school senior today could probably not pass the 8th grade exit exam from 1950. It's not their fault. The standards have been dumbed down, expectations have been dropped, all because we are afraid that some students who are too lazy and disruptive would fail. The stats wouldn't look good and the students would feel bad. If there were a real world consequence, like needing a HS diploma to get an entry level job maybe things would start to change. Most importantly, we need to stop basing our educational decisions on the bottom performers and move that focus to the middle and top performers.
Is there hope? Yes, there is always hope. What we need to realize is that to reverse the extreme lurch to the left that has happened, especially in the past two years won't be quick or easy. It is not time for business as usual, because this crowd of extremists running things does not play by any rules other than what they make up as they go. You CANNOT negotiate with them. The only language they understand is raw power.
It starts at the local level. We must vet and vote candidates that love America. Same at the State level. Vote out the extremists. Primary the RINOS at both the State and Federal level. We outnumber them greatly but it won't matter if we don't vote. Some might complain that the election problems haven't been fixed from 2020 so why bother? Well, if you don't vote, we have NO chance to find out if the problems were fixed. If we vote in overwhelming numbers we can start to flush out the effluent in our government.
These extremists running this country into the ground are very unpopular. We can oust them but everybody needs to get vocal and get involved.
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