George Rebane
In the recent 'Dark Days Diary' (here) I highlighted a short dissertation on the spread of communism by a former KGB agent. As we have pointed out here and he confirms, the spread of that evil ideology is made possible by its acolytes initially gaining control of a target nation’s public educational system. This is from the Marxist-Leninist playbook – ‘let me educate one generation of your youth to assure communism’s triumph.’ In the United States we are now educating the third generation with a curriculum that ranges between pure trash and collectivist propaganda. And this is done in our public K-12 schools and also academe, which has for the most part eliminated all dissenting voices and thought on their campuses.
The onerous task is being carried out by teachers’ unions and faculty associations which have wholeheartedly embraced the goal of a socialist world order. Their success can be measured by the fraction of our graduates who are profoundly ignorant of their American heritage and equally lacking skill sets which enable their entry into a productive workforce. A disturbing share of them find work with government as the employer of last resort. There they immediately fit in with the correctly thinking and compliant deep state extension of the Democratic Party, doing its work no matter who currently happens to control Congress or reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
For the Left, this fortuitous outcome is to a large extent the fault of our ‘go along to get along’ Republicans. Over the years they as the conservators of our Constitution have shown little interest to understand and backbone to resist the nation’s ratcheting of anti-American public policies. The Republicans appear to measure their political progress by how good they feel when grumbling and griping about the Left to their likeminded constituents in cloistered gatherings. These pity-party nodding sessions motivate only a trickling of attendees, if that, to take an active stance to counter the encroach of socialism in their communities. The rank and file Republican returns to his homestead to continue living a productive and non-contentious life minding his own business.
The only plausible road back (from beyond the tipping point to the Great Divide) is to regain local control of educating our children. Rebane Doctrine has long taught that to do this is to change education policy so that in the public funding of education, the money follows the students, and parents determine where the students are schooled. This calls for a restructuring of our education industry into a more open market, capitalistic format, and away from the rank socialist structure of today. In the main, K-12 education should be available to parents in the same manner as is the choice of a college education. This means that schools would become transparent for-profit institutions that make their performance (quality of their product) accessible to their clients. Overall, given today’s cost of education, such a change would significantly reduce costs, and increase the relevance and quality of the delivered education.
Our leftwing knows that Sapir-Whorf’s theory of language enabling thought (q.v.) is correct as was made public by Orwell and put in practice on a national scale by Mao et al. Today’s public educated true believers can neither conceive the existence of alternative ways to organize a beneficial society, nor understand where our nation’s present path is taking us (e.g. evidence of that abounds in these pages).
No one knows the truth of all this more than does our Democratic Party which has viewed their support of socialized education as required maintenance of their private manufactory of an ever increasing horde of compliant constituents and unquestioning voters. The last thing our Left will tolerate is letting parents decide where their children will be schooled.
Signs of Our Time – 9dec20 (updated 10dec20)
George Rebane
This will be a category of highly opinionated observations from an octogenarian who has been privileged to witness (often unwillingly) more of the human travail than that to which most have been subjected.
Innovator extraordinaire Elon Musk is moving his Tesla et al out of Silicon Valley and California to (wait for it) Texas. That will not come as a surprise to those freedom-loving capitalists and conservetarians who have paid attention to the accelerating autocracy bound downward slide of the once golden state that was the envy of the world. And to the Democrat-dimmed of our state (and nation), this ongoing exodus has been totally invisible or worse – it has been denied, thereby rejecting the need for any policy corrections.
On the road to progressivist autocracy, YouTube has announced new censorship rules. The latest batch has them removing all content that gives any hint that the recent election contained any fraud. To these supreme hubristicates, the dispensing of news that covers the massive amount of submitted evidence and legal battles affirming fraud are considered not suitable for processing by the nation’s main street minds. YouTube will relieve us of the burden and just focus on delivering all the pravda we really need. We anxiously await their next installment. (more here)
‘Stakeholder capitalism’ is the label for destroying the best approach to generating and allocating wealth. All the world’s major corporatists, as they assembled at Davos, are on board with ‘The Big Reset’ which is “a vague and open-ended mandate for corporations to do good in the world. Yet beneath the lofty rhetoric, stakeholder capitalism is mostly a front for irresponsible corporatism. It is an attempt to siphon off cash flow from productive uses to advance the mission of ‘global governance’ and create corporate and government sinecures for cronies along the way. … Stakeholder capitalism is used as a way to obfuscate what counts as success in business. By focusing less on profits and more on vague social values, ‘enlightened’ executives will find it easier to avoid accountability even as they squander business resources. While trying to make business about ‘social justice’ is always concerning, the contemporary conjunction of stakeholder theory and woke capitalism makes for an especially dangerous and accountability-thwarting combination.” (more here)
Team Biden will take full credit for correctly dealing with the C19 pandemic. Not adding anything to the Trump administration’s accomplishments, the Democrats will just subsume all of it, with their lamestream telling us repeatedly that it was really they who put together and now deliver what Trump had done. High school history books will memorialize the accomplishments that followed after President Biden rescued the country from the tragedy of the Trump years. In gratitude we will be made happy to pay more taxes, welcome new layers of socially just regulations, and take comfort in no longer having to exercise such a wide spectrum of risky liberties. What’s not to like?
[10dec20 update] The manufacture of America’s double dummies in its schools – public and private – has ascended to a new level of intensity. The Woke Revolution is now descending into the nation’s middle and high schools with the widespread adoption of curricula based on ‘critical race theory’ (q.v.) and specific subjects like history adopting the anti-American propaganda version as publicized by Project 1619. The “tip of the iceberg” of this new aspect of our socialist revolution is described in ‘The Woke Managerial Revolution Goes to School’. The question is, as always, ‘where are the parents?’
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