Don't worry, I am not" jumping ship" to join the other side!!! But, I have been reading a book of that title, by William Federer, subtitled, "The real history from Plato to the present". It begins with Plato's ficticious description of an imaginary island, Atlantis, which is run by a governmental system, that matches what we call Socialism today! Of course, being fiction, Plato made everything about it seem to work perfectly, whereas the idiots who tried to put the dream into reality found it not to be so idealic, including some of my own ancestors!!!
My family is related to the lay preacher of the Pilgrims of the Plymouth colony that settled in Massachusettes, in 1620, William Brewster. Their Pastor, John Robinson, decided to stay with those who didn't come to what would become America, so Elder Brewster became the unofficial pastor of the colony. While William Bradford was the elected Governor of the colony, Elder Brewster retained significant authority, partly from his role as surrogate father to Bradford during Bradford's young years living with the Brewsters in Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire, in England!
Apparently, they had borrowed the money for the passage from some English investors, who stipulated that they should set up a commonwealth society, that basically borrowed the tenants of Plato's "Utopian" dream, which amounted to the first Socialist community in America!!! I don't mean to suggest that the PIlgrims were the idiots I was referring to. They had no choice, if they wanted the investors money to pay for the trip. The real idiots are the investors who thought that Plaio had a good idea! Doesn't it amaze that the social "elites" are the idiots, but they trap others to carry out their ludicrius plans!!! Reference today's Hollywood Bozos!!!
After some 50% of the colony died that first winter, due to malnutrition making them vulnerable to disease, they soon discovered that communal ownership of all property, and all profits of their labors, made for lax workers' idleness, and resentment of women having to do laundery for other families than their own!
Soon they rejected the communal approach to labor, and property ownership, and divided the farm plots up between individual owners, and allowed them to keep all that they grew!!! This turned out to be the key to their growing sufficient food for all (presumably those who grew more than they needed sold their excess to those who did not)! So the Pilgrims were the first to experiment with Socialism in America, and the first to reject it as impractical!!!
There were subsequently several other such experiments in the 19th century, all of which failed, mostly because they attracted indogent followers who wanted to get free food and shelter, but were unwilling to do their fair share of labor to produce the commonwealth of the community! This is the basic flaw of the philosophy, it rewards laziness, equally with hard workers,who don't get to keep the profits of their labors!!!
The education system in America today doesn't recognise these flaws, and failures, and promotes Socialist values, mostly in our colleges and universties, after 12 years of silence in early school years, concerning American civics, and history, not to mention the Christian religion which has been relegated to the educational trash heep of society!!!
We have allowed Leftist "Deep State" bureaucrats to dictate curriculum to our schools, nationwide, without challenge, or censorship! Our colleges have been turned into Marxist training grounds, that our children soak up since they are ignorant of any historical alternative, like their own country's!!!
The only solution is three-part!!! First, we must "fire" the Deep State bureaucrats in the Education Department! But, the collective bargaining contract of all federal employees makes this darn near impossible!!! So, we must abollish the whole Department, and send them all packing!!! Then, return control of the schools to the States, and local governments, and let them decide if they really want to rehire all those leftist teachers to teach the children, whose parents live so close to them, now,and have to vote them back into office periodically!!!
"Secondly, as far as the colleges go, the federal government should tell them to fire any professors who are known to teach Marxist values as part of their course curriculum, or lose all federal funding immediately!!! Any communities that financed their own Marxist indoctrination of it's chidren would have to worry about their parents "voting with their feet", and moving to better communities!!!
Finally, it's up to the parents to determine if their local schools teach valuable education standards. If the schools want to teach Marxist dogma, fine! As long as the taxpayers don't have to pay for it, they can teach what they want... to their probably empty classrooms!!!
The same attitude should be directed towards Radical Muslim teachers who want to propagate Sharia Law as an alternative to our Constitution, or any other doctrine that is intended to subvert American values!!!
We would not be telling these school systems that they can't teach Marxism, or any other un-American doctrine! Just that if they do they'll have to pay for it somehow other than with taxpayers' money!!!
It's time we wake up and stop funding the communist indoctrination of our children!!!
Addendum-- I understand that the Education Department was created under President Jimmy Carter, in 1979. I remember, as a new Born Again Christian, I was very impressed that we had a President who claimed to be Born Again, also! I don't mean to judge the truth of his claim, or not, but the Lord said, "By their fruits (words, and deeds) you shall know them!" Federer's book has a section titled, "Can a Christian also be a Socialist???" Overall student proficiency has declined markedly since the Education Department was created, especially in the areas of math, literature, and science!!! Was that coincidental, or intentional???
Carter also presided over that fiasco of an intended rescue of the Embassy personnel that were taken prisoner in Tehran, Iran, and held hostage for some 400 days! The rescue was doomed when a sand storm caused their helicopters to crash, killing all eight soldiers!
Carter seemed to be a better submarine commander than an army helicopter commander! I guess he didn't have much experience with sand storms under the ocean!!! I don't mean to blame him for the tragedy, but whomever commanded that action was picked by Carter, directly, or indirectly!!! The same is true for whomever has been running the Education Department, and creating that socialist "Dummy-Down" system!!! God doesn't seem to bless Socialist "Fruit Pickers"!!!
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