History, facts, our perceptions and feelings, the founding, the constitution, and even our future's most important legacy ... our kids ... are all things to be manipulated in different ways at different times for whatever purpose du jour. I'm speaking of course about progressives in general but most important, about the progressive-in-chief President Obama. Victor Davis Hansen's article today, "Obama in Never-Never Land" is by far the most straight-forward, common sense description I've seen yet about what President Obama has been up to the past four years.
All things are relative to these people. Truth becomes whatever they can manipulate us into believing makes them look good. Appearance is everything. Success is relative. Content and character are irrelevant. MLK would be horrified! Promises aren't really commitments. Promises are delivered with such passion that it sounds like a genuine promise, a genuine commitment. Performance to goals? You've got to be kidding! Objective measurement? Are you insane? Use common sense? Do not let Americans start thinking for themselves!
How can we measure progress and performance if the goals and promises against which progress and success can actually be measured are malleable things after the fact? To progressives that's not a problem. In fact, that's the whole point! Their only problem comes when we don't buy what they're selling. In that case, they have a tried and true solution: sell it loud enough. often enough and long enough. Eventually the skeptics/unbelievers will believe it. At lest enough of them to control the debate. Perhaps enough of them to accomplish majority control over everything educational and political.
But why should this development surprise us? For generations progressives have been working diligently to replace historical teaching methods, subjects and course content with progressive feel-good versions, first in post-secondary education then, trickle-down fashion, in K-12 education. To my everlasting horror, I now find that they've been succeeding far beyond what I thought possible.
But why is that surprising, considering that progressives have been inflicting this on and inculcating this in K-12 students very aggressively for about 60 years? In teachers-to-be for twice that long beginning with John Dewey; beginning in, surprise (not!), the University of Chicago. For the eye-popping, somewhat horrifying truth about what really happened to our education system I highly recommend John A. Stormer's "None Dare Call It Education". The consequences he describes about what a hundred years of trusting our kids to progressive education professionals has done to that most precious national resource is horrifying to me. To the same extent those children have been our precious resource, while we were napping at the switch our kids became progressives' most important targets and means of brainwashing generations of Americans to advance their agenda. Progressives have been both patient and persistent. In their hands our kids have been their completely political tool for many generations.
We must not let this continue. For the sake of our country's future, parents and communities must regain authority and control over our kids' education and life outside school. We must not submit to the government as 'parent'.
