The Triumph of Bill Ayers

by Monica Showalter at American Thinker:

.

“Yes, there have been stories about young people turning to socialism. One of the latest polls shows that a majority of millenials would prefer to live under a socialist, fascist or communist system rather than a capitalist one.

But thing are getting a bit more disturbing now that elections have been happening. Turns out one of the Virginia Democrats elected in last week’s special election. Lee Carter, is a young unreconstructed socialist, and a member of the far-left Democratic Socialists of America. That organization has seen a fivefold increase in its membership, from about 6,000 to now 30,000. You can bet the Communist Party U.S.A., now run in part by the fairly youthful and charismatic Libero della Piana, is seeing similar membership numbers rise.

Disillusion with free markets and capitalism is often cited as the reason for this phenomenon. According to an interview with a millennial socialist in The Guardian:

“Everyone has student loan debt and everyone’s rents are exorbitant and everyone’s paying like $300-a-month premiums for Obamacare. It’s common sense for people my age.”

The problem with that statement is that none of those complaints have anything to do with capitalism, they are byproducts of creeping socialism. Rents are high because leftist NIMBYs refuse to allow housing to be built. Student loan debt is a direct function of government funds freely available to universities for loans, which gives them every incentive to raise prices sky high. Obamacare speaks for itself, there’s no freedom of choice in its mandates for insurance companies and no willing-buyer, willing seller dynamic for consumers. All of these are full blown byproducts of socialism. Want more of these horrors? By all means elect more socialists.

And that’s where the issue of ignorance rolls in. Millennials have no education to speak of on the horrors of socialism. That may well be the triumph of the influence of President Obama’s mentor, Bill Ayers, who made it his lifework to destroy America as a free society. When the Weatherman terrorist gig didn’t work out, he turned to early childhood education. Much of what is known from the news is that he favored leftist sops to the teachers unions such as smaller classroom sizes. Much of what isn’t known is how deeply he infused educational lessons into indoctrination, an indoctrination that promoted Marxism and ignored the crimes of socialism.

In an interview published in 1995, Ayers characterized his political beliefs at that time and in the 1960s and 1970s: “I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist … [Laughs] Maybe I’m the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small ‘c’ communists in the sense that we were never in the Communist party and never Stalinists. The ethics of communism still appeal to me. (emphasis mine) I don’t like Lenin as much as the early Marx. I also like Henry David Thoreau, Mother Jones and Jane Addams […]”.^[61]

Those ethics are out on full display in the nightmare of Venezuela, which he and his stepson, Chesa Boudin, helped foster and promote. You don’t hear anything from either of those guys touting the wonders of socialism in Venezuela, now that it has been exposed as a disaster. Just ignoring it keeps the myth of socialism still glorious. It’s telling that in the case of Lee, elected in Virginia, his political opponents use of Marx and Mao in opposition campaign ads drew no rise from the millennials he was trying to reach. They think it can’t happen here.

Ayers wasn’t the only one who ruined the education of the young and filled it with leftist propaganda, but he found a welcoming environment in academia, and from there, went on to influence elementary education as one of its brightest lights.

The results are now in these attitudes and these election results. Bill Ayers has succeeded in his long march through the institutions and now his successors are beginning to take power.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/11/the_triumph_of_bill_ayers.html

When and Why Did Our America Become So Ignorant of Its Past?

Cult of Personality

by John Schroeder  at  Hugh Hewitt Blog:

“In the 1780 Constitution of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote (Part the First, section XXX):

In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: The judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men. [emphasis added]

That phrase, “a government of laws and not of men,” is one of those things that has become cliché through repetition, but is neither cliché nor trite.  It is deeply and importantly meaningful.  Yet I notice that as our culture grows more focused on self, our politics grows more personality based than idea or policy based.  The last presidential election cycle was consumed with personality, as is the continuing media coverage of the presidency.  “I like” or “I don’t like” has replaced “I agree with” or “I do not agree with” in most political discussions I encounter anymore.  (Hmmm, do I detect a Facebook contribution here?)

This trend is troubling – and it is reflected in far more than our politics.  I see it in our churches as well.  I have seen way too many churches built around a pastor die when that pastor moves on in some fashion.  For institutions to survive, whether they be churches or governments or something else, they have to be about more than the people involved at the moment.  There is little doubt in my mind that many of the radical changes that have happened in our culture in my lifetime are due to the fact that our institutions no longer stand as they once did.  They are now often fickle and transient things, driven by a personality rather than something greater than any one person, standing as a bulwark in support of some ideal.

Consider this odd BBC story about the current president of very dictatorial Turkmenistan.  Like North Korea, the nation is only as strong as its leader appears to be.  This necessity to maintain appearances can results in all sorts of issues.  Hence personality driven churches often die in scandal and dictatorships are found, after their death, to be built on tissues of lies.  Simple fact of the matter is mere humans are too frail and too unreliable to base an institution upon.  We need more.

This problem has plagued mankind throughout history.”

Comment:   The feminized  left of today’s American “women’s” movements has made much noise and many threats as it takes over our today’s American education and communication world.  They preach  that life is Godless.  They dictate  the past has been male recorded and therefore evil,  plotted to advance his ego to control his flocks.  Feminists and their nazis insist history must be rewritten in the leftist, feminist nazi manner.

Welcome feminazi America’s “1984”!

Their  ignorance  of our American struggle from the Mayflower episode to today’s racist Obama’s  antiAmerican movement is overwhelming the nation’s culture.  Worse, it is in union with the recent scholastic invasion of the feminists and their feminazi instructors now ruling and corrupting our education, communication and interracial world.

These and other  anti-democratic news orders of our day are given by the rebellious  political and college leaders and  street blacks, thugs, criminals included,  of street feminazis nurtured in the streets or by leftists at college,  blacks and feminazis of all stripes and colors,  the American news industry, from CNN, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, as well as Fox News, which advertises “fair and balanced” news funneled  through  Chris Wallace and Howard Kurtz.

The above article displayed above at Hugh Hewitt disappeared from the American mind a generation before the Obama’s racist, cultural rebellion days and its invited leftist invasion of 25,000,000 mostly illegal immigrants to guarantee a on Party Soviet type  leftist fascist regime for our once civilized America’s future.

“Human dignity for all” is religious desire, a dream arising from  our American JudeoChristian  story and its historic struggles to become more knowledgeable, therefore more Godfearing to  spread  freedom to expand truth and opportunity in life by accumulating knowledge.  It depends upon the human animal’s innate powerful sense of curiosity to explore the unknown,   and that  the more  “knowledge”  released from people to people stimulates yet further inquiry to expose the unknown……and  become closer to God.