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Liberals are rewriting America’s history to
create a past that does not exist and to eradicate the one the does.
Their goal is to create an indoctrinated electorate that is ignorant of
its own past and, as a result, easily led into a questionable future.
Liberals like President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Hillary
Clinton live in a fantasyland of their own making. My colleague, Jim
Guirard, a Washington, D. C. based attorney and long-time Chief of Staff
to former Senator Russell Long, calls this leftwing fantasyland the
“OPRAH Land Plantation (Obama-Pelosi-Reid-And-Hillary Land.” In this
fantasyland, society can be made perfect—as Liberals define perfect—if
only we spend enough government money on it. But liberals face an
interesting problem in trying to shape America’s future in their own
image. That problem is America’s past.
The reader has probably heard the maxim that the best guide to the
future is the past. We usually interpret this to mean that knowing the
past will help us avoid repeating errors as we move into the future, but
it can also mean being guided by what was done right in the past. The
past is precursor to the future and herein, as they say, is the rub.
There is nothing in America’s past that supports where liberals are
trying to take our country in the future. In fact, just the opposite is
true. Our Founders had a vision for America that runs counter to the
vision of today’s liberals in all respects. It was a vision of
self-government by free people who were willing to govern themselves so
that government did not have to. It was a vision of personal
responsibility, individual liberty, free markets, and limited
government. This is why liberals are rewriting history. None of these
things comport with the left’s agenda of big government, burdensome
regulations, entitlement, statism, and lifelong dependence.
The Founders sacrificed dearly to establish a nation based on their
vision. Their founding principles—personal responsibility, individual
liberty, free markets, and limited government—are difficult to square
with the future today’s liberals envision for America: big government;
liberties that are increasingly infringed on by burdensome, unnecessary
regulations; a society of entitled finger-pointers who refuse to accept
responsibility for themselves or their actions and who think they are
owed a living; a permanent underclass that is completely dependent on
the government; high taxes; and a statist/socialist economy.
Students who learn the truth about America’s history—the truth about
the Founders’ vision—are better prepared to judge the viability of the
liberal agenda that is now the accepted norm in education from
Kindergarten through college. This is why liberals fear well-informed
students and, in turn, a well-informed electorate. Americans who know
the truth about our nation’s past are well-armed to ask some
inconvenient questions of liberal politicians who are trying to take our
country in the wrong direction. So how do liberals like Obama, Pelosi,
Reid, and Clinton handle the threat of an informed electorate?
Writing or The Washington Times of July 21, 2014, Opinion
Editor David A. Keene answered this question: “The Founder’s grand
experiment is being put at risk by liberal progressive ideologues intent
upon creating a citizenry ignorant of its real history, but
indoctrinated to hate its country, its history and those who founded it.
Enemies of free government have always understood this simple truth
(that informed people are harder to fool) and have tried to recast
history to lead the next generation to believe as they do. They know
they can shape the policies of today and tomorrow by creating a past of
their own.”
Creating a false history and substituting it for true history is
precisely what liberals have been doing since the 1960s. Their efforts
include: 1) Distorting America’s history to create a past that does not
exist, 2) Indoctrinating naïve public school and college students to
hate what is best about America, 3) Portraying the Founders and other
great Americans as villains, 4) Ignoring great Americans who cannot be
cast as villains but whose lives and contributions do not comport with
liberal orthodoxy, and 5) Exploiting the ignorance they have created by
using public schools and colleges to indoctrinate rather than educate.
Collectively, these strategies are allowing liberals to take America
down a path that leads to the destruction of everything our Founders
envisioned and sacrificed to establish.
The on-going success of the great experiment our Founders began even
before July 4, 1776 depends on an informed, thinking electorate made up
of people who love our country and share the basic values of those who
founded it. Young men and women do not go down to their local recruiting
office and sign up to defend a nation they hate, and hate is precisely
the emotion liberals want to instill in American school children and
college students concerning our country. In the words of David Keene,
what liberals teach school children about America is “a dark view of a
nation built on aggressive racist imperialism, theft, and genocide,” and
they intend to “drive those who do not agree from the public square, or
at least from the classroom.” Unfortunately, with the help of such
organizations as the National Education Association, College Board, and
teachers’ unions they have achieved a disturbing level of progress.
The College Board establishes standards for college admissions, which
means it indirectly dictates what high schools must teach. How? One of
the measures of a successful high school is the percentage of its
graduates who go on to college and which colleges they go to. Fail to
teach what the College Board recommends and your students are less
likely to be admitted to the more prestigious colleges and universities.
Hence, the College Board has enormous influence over the curriculums of
public schools. Not surprisingly, the College Board is a leading
advocate for the left’s nefarious agenda.
The College Board no longer recommends teaching history courses that
include the Founders, the principles upon which our country was founded,
or the values that led our Founders to break away from the smothering
grasp of Great Britain and establish self-government. The framework
provided to high schools by the College Board represents a gross
distortion of America’s history and a purposefully negative view of our
founding principles. Several of our more prominent Founders are not even
mentioned in the framework, yet public school decision makers blindly
accept and implement the framework. The College Board’s framework is one
of the most influential factors in establishing high school
curriculums. It is also the framework textbook publishers consult in
developing textbooks.
Although a small percentage of American students still receive a
solid education in Christian schools and home-schools, the majority are
being indoctrinated in public schools by leftist elites who hate America
and believe our Founders were nothing but a bunch of patriarchal
tyrants and racist bigots. One problem with this kind of thinking—among
many problems—is that if these leftist elites on the College Board, in
Congress, and in the White House had been around in 1776, America would
still be a British colony that had expanded no farther than the east
coast. These anti-American elites on the left are the same intellectual
hypocrites who call terrorism “workplace violence” and who pander to
violent terrorists who are determined to bring America down. If the
terrorists who want to destroy America were smart they would simply sit
back and bide their time. Give it a few more years and liberals in the
Democratic Party will do their dirty work for them.