Why are Millennials embracing socialism as an acceptable philosophical approach to markets? Why is the public at large not just laughing when the political Left attempts to tie the anti-Semitism and perversion of Christianity practiced by Nazis to the political Right? Why are we seeing a growing embrace of victimhood and weakness as honorable instead of achievement and deliberate pursuits of distinguished goals? Why do individuals who refuse to value citizenship but want socialism fail to see that those coming into America illegally do so either with nefarious intent or because they are fleeing big, socialist government?
Better yet, how’d we get here to this mess and how can we make an urgent, existential correction? Believing Thomas Jefferson’s statement to be true, Americans need to think through and understand the implications: “A nation has never been ignorant and free; that has never been and will never be.”
The Wall Street Journal opined last fall over the “embarrassing” number of Americans who failed the same civics test administered to those working through the naturalization process to become a U.S. Citizens. Writing about the abysmal 19% of individuals 45 years of age or younger who successfully answered enough questions about America’s history and government to pass, the editorial board blared that this “reflects the declining state of American public schools. None of this augurs well for the future of self-government.”
No, criticism of so many of America’s public schools and our government-run education is not excessively harsh.
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Most Americans can't even tell you who won the US Civil War, or point out Ireland on a world map. Our public education system is the problem.
ReplyDeleteIt has to be the Unions fault, just has to be. No way denying that kids can't get a decent education because of Unions. Hahahaha LMAF
DeleteI believe that! And if you saw the test (i have), you would know how hard it is to pass. It is a tough test that takes some serious studying to pass. Most people that were born here, and schooled here, but have never seen the test, think it must be easy. BS! They are the very ones that can't pass it, while legal immigrants want to be citizens so badly that they will work and study incredibly hard so that they pass it. "Born here" Americans take citizenship for granted, and know little about our history, founding principles, or our governing laws. They are generally uninformed, as our educators have a political agenda in what they teach, and don't teach our children. Yes, education has become a politicized weapon by the NEA in this country. Our future socialists are being groomed right in our schools.
ReplyDeleteUnions = Socialism, everybody knows that. What's so funny?
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