Sardonic Scribe

What kind of education are American kids getting today? What are they being taught and what effect will it have on society moving forward? If we consider how the agenda of the public education system has been hijacked and is now dictated by the far left, it is pretty frightening. Oh sure, if you research or do a search for American Education standards you will see lists of lofty sounding goals such as affording every student the greatest opportunity to succeed, etc. But what is really happening today?

America was once the leader in education worldwide but has dropped precipitously since once reigning as number one in the world. Why, how, when, what happened to bring out this unsettling change? Shouldn’t our children receive only the best education possible to prepare them for a brighter future?

The primary factor could be said to be the agenda behind what is taking place in society at large. As society moves towards looser standards regarding permissiveness and what is or is not tolerated with regard to such factors as sex, the results are reflected in the education system. As society has become increasingly tolerant of what was once the greatest taboo in life is now openly flaunted in every area of public consumption. Television began pushing the limits of what was or was not tolerated with regard to language many years ago. The result today is profanity and coarse language being the norm in every time slot on the public airwaves. The acceptance of such things as the “Gay Agenda” has prompted dramatic, widespread changes, not only in how society views alternative lifestyles but has been a driving force in changing the entertainment industry at large. Now, you are hard pressed to find programming that does not involve the promotion of alternative lifestyles in one form or another.

The same can be said of sex over all. Whether the promotion of the agenda of normalizing alternative lifestyles takes the form of such things as having Transvestites reading hour in public libraries or schools to teaching kindergarten children how to put condoms on cucumbers. The agenda first appeared in the form of books promoting the alternative lifestyle such as presenting the idea of two mommies, or daddy’s roommate, etc. Today, kids are pressured into the acceptance of alternative lifestyles more and more. The push today is to move away from biological absolutes of two genders to accept that there are supposedly many genders and other such psychological dribble. It is all dangerous and wrong, period.

But also has the decline involved what I believe to be an intentional “Dumbing Down” which is evidenced in the adoption of curriculums over the years. Today’s practice seems to be to simply move a student forward at all costs. Academic achievement no longer is the primary concern when the agenda leans more towards indoctrination than education. Proof of this is the abject failure called “Common Core Math” which was implemented but failed miserably. So too has been the inclusion of social justice items in the education system. Participation trophies and other such idiotic attempts to be inclusive at all costs have been horrible. Not teaching children to strive for lofty goals and to become the best that they possibly can has produced classes of children incapable of even reading their High School Diplomas because they were simply pushed through the system.

The quality level of textbooks has eroded and lowered in frightening ways too. The education standard has steadily crept down, lowering the levels of achievement dramatically. Today, high school seniors are learning from textbooks that can barely be considered to be at an eighth grade level. Now think about that for a minute when you consider that these kids are to become the future doctors, lawyers, scientists, and leaders and it is chilling. How will this play out for future generations as we age and have to be cared for by less qualified individuals?

Topics such as Civics have been removed and revisionist history are the norm today. When leftists educators don’t like actual history, they simply rewrite it to be more palatable and serve their purposes better. This has been taking place for far too long. What about such things as critical thinking, civil debate, or even journalism today? Nothing has escaped the dumbing down, filtration, and revamping into a more politically correct ghost of its former glory. One has only to look towards College and University Campuses today to see the absolute, iron fisted, jack booted control of such things as speech. Free speech is sadly replaced by politically correct group speak and group think. Promoting properly educated, free thinking, self reliant people is no longer tolerated as everyone must bow to the indoctrination of leftists elites who want only mind numbed lemmings and social justice warriors who are incapable of free thinking, questioning their authority, or challenging their dictates in any way. Just turn on what is supposed to be an unbiased presentation of facts, truth, and relevant current events in the mainstream media and you will see nothing more than a choreographed, unified, presentation of politically correct talking points and agenda driven commentary.

The left has had control of the Education system in the US since they began to gain control of it in the 1960’s. Sadly, today we are seeing the horrifying results in the most abjectly intolerant way. Everything is to be viewed through the prism of the unattainable goal of “Fairness”. The result has been anything but fair but only to anyone who dare challenge them on any aspect. Simply look at what takes place on college and university campuses when conservatives attempt to speak in an educational manner to expose these young minds to alternate view points and philosophies. Most often, conservatives are shut down in ways up to and including rioting. This can not be accepted any longer. The cost of education has not declined in any way and yet we tolerate having our children fed a steady diet of leftist garbage from kindergarten through college. It is way beyond time that parents and grand parents push back and demand reform. We absolutely can not afford to allow the left to brainwash our children any longer. Start today by becoming keenly aware of what your child is exposed to in the education system.

Political division is nothing new in this country or for that matter, the world. We see evidence throughout history of differences of opinion causing division where groups of people are in close proximity. Let’s imagine prehistoric life where humans start living in groups. Ok, so one group of humans decides that they like eating plants and fruits while the other group loves meat. As time goes by this group divides over dietary preferences. Perhaps the plant eaters decided to move on and form their own village or start their own cave community. Maybe the meat eaters took off in search of more meat availability and just left the vegetarians behind, who knows? The point is simply this, people are going to disagree and have as long as their have been people.

Even the very first humans disagreed. Adam was content following the rules and going about life in the garden of Eden until evil crept in and influenced Eve to break the rules and eat of the forbidden fruit. Well, this certainly caused division not only between Adam and Eve but between “Man” and “God”. The end result of course was man’s expulsion from the Paradise of communing freely with God in the Garden. The lesson is that actions have consequences, no matter what and some are dire and life altering.

Differences in beliefs brought about the US Civil War. This was a particularly bloody and deadly exercise which even caused division amongst family members such as brother verses brother and so on. In the extreme, brothers might be pitted against one another even on the battlefield over the differences of beliefs. This tragedy ripped our country apart and nearly destroyed any hope of ever seeing unity.

Today, we are witnessing divineness at levels not seen before for decades or generations. How are we divided today? The rise of political correctness has been a particularly divisive tool utilized by communists starting in the 1930’s. Progressives believe themselves to be in possession of the new realities that all of mankind is in need of. The new realities are in direct conflict with natural laws and limits and must be forcefully imposed via thought. Thought conformity must be forced on people to insure conformity. The toll that political correctness is and has taken on our culture will not fully be realized yet.

Progressives have full control of some of the most powerful sectors of our society and will seemingly resort to any length to maintain their grip on power and control of institutions such as Education, Entertainment, and the Media. Progressives have not been shy about wielding this frighteningly powerful tool and have literally weaponized them for their agenda. Education for instance has moved from pure education of history, science, and math to one of favoring the indoctrination and dumbing down. History is presented in a revisionist manner to gloss over facts and evidence which is unfavorable to progressives. Civics has been replaced with more social justice themed education and the furtherance of such agendas as the normalization of the gay lifestyle.

Progressives control Hollywood and therefore have an opportunity to build the entertainment industry around the social justice issue favorable to the left. The opportunity for the use of propaganda and weaponized agenda driven, political correctness, has never been better. Even children’s entertainment is delving into social justice issues and presenting the gay agenda to increasingly younger audiences.

Knowing that the mainstream media was full of bias has been a not so secret fact for many years but all pretense simply vanished when President Trump announced his intentions to seek the presidency. What is supposed to be news is now nothing more than opinionated, fabricated, collusion promoting the agenda of the Left. Truth has even become subjective and dependent upon the political desires of those who create and present it. You have only to flip the channel to discover that nearly all of the media personalities are presenting nearly identical stories featuring the same talking points and buzz words agreed upon by the powers at large for each news cycle.

Now, progressives fan the flames of division along political, gender, racial, economic, and political lines all in the name of a mythical fabrication called societal fairness. Surely reasonable humans have been seeking “fairness” throughout history and have tried to impose it as long as man has recorded history. In looking back through the history of man, how many successful examples can be cited? I can certainly not name even one. We have as much likelihood of capturing a magical, talking Unicorn as realizing societal fairness. There are always going to be differences among people as no two people are exactly alike. This is especially true of humans who are still capable of free thinking. Those who have not battered in to mindless and blind obedience to the controlling elite present and pose a danger to the main weapons of progressives which is group think and group speak. As mentioned before, forcing people to think only along lines which are approved is mandatory for political correctness to work at all.

Today, America is virtually divided almost in its entirety with all factors lumped into a catch all called politics. America has two main parties with dramatically different belief systems. Our country is now divided along political lines like never before and it is increasing nearly daily. Even during the worst pandemic in recent memory in the form of the COVID19 virus. Our economy has come to a nearly complete halt as we are forced into lock downs and cessation of all unnecessary function. I don’t have to attempt to explain the effects that COVID has had on our country as we are all painfully aware of the effect that this is taking on our lives. Taking advantage of this crisis is a particularly despicable and contemptible situation and yet, progressives will simply not let a crisis go to waste as they seek to further the most radical agenda imaginable. The most recent example is the more than 3 Trillion dollar stimulus package proposed by the democrats. This package includes virtually every conceivable far left agenda item possible. What is most necessary is economic relief for those families and businesses which are hardest hit by lock downs and business cessation but progressives are focussed on the farthest left agenda imaginable and far less concerned with the well being of average Americans who are just trying to survive. Progressive priorities are on everything other than our well being. Progressives are much more concerned with taking care of those who are in our country illegally, abortion, the green new deal, and the destruction of capitalism for example. To say that these priorities are dangerous and pose a direct threat to our Constitution is a gross understatement.

The old phrase, “United we stand, divided we fall.”, actually dates back to Aesop and his fables in the 6th century and yet it has been proven true unendingly. We have realized that we can better control smaller groups of people than larger, united groups. Therefore, if you can divide a large, unified group into smaller groups of divided people, then you can control them much easier. Progressives fan the flames of division as much as possible.The media has become their primary weapon for battering us into submission along every conceivable line.

Political correctness must not be tolerated and we must strive to unify along any and every possible theme. Divisiveness is an evil entity wielded for nefarious goals. Forcing vast segments of our society into dependence on government for their very existence is the end goal. While the elites in politics enrich themselves on our tax dollars, many becoming multi millionaires, those of us in flyover country, especially those dependent on government subsidies for their daily existence grow ever poorer and more dependent. Progressives don’t seek to shrink government back into its Constitutional limitations but want to explode it, especially when they are in control of most of government.

Hopefully, this will serve to be a wake up call for the apathetic to start more closely examining the actions of our political elites. Question more and seek the truth. Don’t blindly accept talking points wrapped in pretty, although agenda driven packages, presented by over paid, talking heads in the media. We are being deceived, indoctrinated, and lied to by all of them. Seek the truth while we still can.