The Festering Wound

How has the greatest nation in the world been brought low? I believe it is the education system that has failed us. Whether you want to recognize the level of indoctrination present in secondary education, particularly the public schools, you must acknowledge that the most essential ability, being able to think critically is not actively being taught. In fact, the opposite, group think, is often encouraged. From the earliest grades on, students are taught to give their skeptical, more discerning elders, the lecture on global warming. Yes, we adults are the powerful Shiva, destroying the earth by our willful destruction of driving and I suppose taken to the extreme, by the very act of breathing (we are after all exhaling carbon). Our youth, our religious and ethnic minorities, women on the college campus are being taught generational and gender dissonance, color and origin disharmony, and grievance against the other-seeing everything through a group-think prism rather than America and the world being possessed of one race, the human race. This was evinced in stark relief in the stories about celebrations by Hispanic judges and lawyers, who were showing their disdain for those outside their ethnic niche by wearing "Wise Latina" or "My Mom is a Wise Latina" T-shirts in their Sotomayor celebrations in the Bronx. To the rest of America, wake up-they are rubbing your face in it. Their education has been so limited that they believe the economy is static, and they are determined to grab their piece of the pie by denying you yours. To them, it is only fair to deprive you because you benefited from the old white male patriarchy.Of course, this is nonsense because if free markets are allowed to work, prosperity grows for everyone. Capitalism is a dynamic force that grows wealth everywhere and for everyone if an Obama does not stifle it. Regardless of sex, race, or ethnic origin, a simple proposition applies: the more government takes, the less your family prospers, and conversely, the less government takes, the more your family prospers. But the great congregation of Obamites, so ill-served by the education system, can not grasp the obvious. They are fed dinosaur media lies and a degenerate popular culture and are sated by it. Led by the arrogant, the ignorant eat it up. Trapped in a morass of pornography online and on cable (and satellite), being subjected to a spate of unreality shows aimed at those who seek escape from their drudgery in the most facile way, bombarded with popular culture messages that attack moral fiber and are a negation of real culture, and left without the tools to think for themselves, many Americans are at sea. They know all about Britney shaving her head, or Kanye, or Fitty, but they can not identify half of the US Presidents or define what inflation is, yet they had their vote and exercised it for Obama. They remain under a collective delusion of Obama's beneficence, brilliance, and singular greatness. Of course, not all Obama voters are brainless, some are brainwashed, some are convicted Marxists (or socialists or progressives)-some of Obama's supporters are fascists though they will not admit or are unaware of it. So, what is billed as a values' neutral education system promotes positive reinforcement, creating high self-esteem, is filled with Stuart Smalley affirmations, and conflict resolution but lacks instruction in any discrimination. In this case, discrimination is meant as discernment born of intellectual curiosity that is no longer a goal teachers push for, except in rare cases. What with social promotion, many are graduated now without the rudimentary ability to reason. They were and are easy prey to glib politicians and the dinosaur media that pushes them. They were never taught the tools to resist a demagogue selling them a bill of goods and they are distracted from their real concerns by entertainers who lack talent but make up for it with a ready eagerness to exhibit themselves or in the case of rappers, display a rap sheet as a resume to establish "street cred" to garner thug-worship fans. The arrogant leading a bread and circus society of the ignorant is a recipe for disaster.