E-Newsletter No. 91 July 2021
How do you create a Socialist country? Step One is to take control of what people read and listen to and what children learn in school. The indoctrination that has been happening on our country’s university and college campuses is now being taken down to the high school and elementary school levels. Critical Race Theory and a curriculum that incorporates The 1619 Project are being advanced by the federal government, teachers unions and Leftist state legislatures. Fortunately, there has been a growing backlash at school board meetings to push back against this divisive agenda, which is a direct affront to one of our country’s founding principles – e pluribus unum – out of many, one.
Many years ago, the Left began to target popular culture, Hollywood movies, and television programming. One of the most egregious examples is to think back on what happened to Superman, who had always fought never-ending battles for Truth, Justice and the American Way. In Action Comics # 900, published in June 2011, Superman announces his intention to go to the United Nations and renounce his US citizenship, to put a global focus on his never-ending battles. (The Globalists of the Left cheered).
Dennis Prager has a 5-minute video entitled “Why Are So Many Good Things Being Destroyed?” Why Are So Many Good Things Being Destroyed? | PragerU The list is long – Universities, the Arts, Literature, Late-Night Television, Religion, Free Speech, The Boy Scouts, and the identities of the genders. To that list, you can also add the NFL, the NBA, and the venue of the MLB All-Star game. In addition, there are various out-of-favor, politically incorrect games like Cowboys and Indians and Cops and Robbers (with toy guns), and playing “dangerous” games like dodgeball, kickball, and red rover.
But the most effective (and damaging) take-over has been that of the mainstream media and television “news”. Virtually all of the major outlets are controlled by the Left. Conservatives’ free speech rights are under constant attack by the Left and their Big Tech allies. Expressions of any thoughts that deviate from the Left’s narratives are immediately denounced as “misinformation”. Censorship, “de-platforming” and other forms of “Cancel Culture” are the tools used by the Thought Police of the Left, whose own Truths are oftentimes false – (collusion with Russia, etc., etc.).
The good news is that a growing number of people are walking away from the indoctrination, as the number of “subscribers” to the mainstream media continue to drop. This is the most effective way to defund the mainstream media. At the same time, conservatives have begun to build their own replacements for Facebook and Twitter, CNN and MSNBC. However, those efforts require a sizable investment. And unfortunately, those efforts (which are necessary to protect free speech) are probably serving to further divide the country between the “Leftist Progressives” who want to fundamentally transform our country into “something else” versus Conservatives who want to retain the principles that have always made America the freest, most prosperous, least racist multicultural country in the history of the world. The questions for the Left are – Why do you want to “transform” our country? And why (if our country is so flawed and evil) do people from around the world continue to want to move here? Our Editorial Board believes this is primarily due to another one of our country’s founding principles – liberty (freedom) – which is under constant attack by the Left.
US Debt Clock – – June 1st – $85,100 per citizen / July 1st – $85,400