Milktoast Expose of Socialism

I listened recently to a milktoast expose of socialism by a 38-year old conservative who spoke to a crowd of elderly and well-off Republicans, Independents, and Libertarians.

They wanted to know how he became a conservative, considering that he went to Columbia. They wanted to replicate that in their own progressively indoctrinated grandchildren.

The speaker told them that he studied the classics when he started school in August 2001 and then 9/11 happened and he and his roommates had a front-row seat and perfect view of the Islamist terrorist attack from their dorm balcony. The unfolding terrorist attack by Saudi nationals, who had murdered 3,000 innocent Americans, he said, turned him into a conservative more than anything else.

I was thinking that, probably, some if not most of those in the audience had grandchildren going to the vaunted universities around the country on their trust funds probably set up when their progenies were born, not batting an eye at the cost of the tuition and at whatever the tenured progressive professors were indoctrinating their grandchildren with.

I corresponded back and forth with the organizer of the event, suggeting concrete ways to reverse the indoctrination that had taken place since Jimmy Carter decided to establish the Department of Education in 1979. Generations of teachers were trained themselves at Colleges of Education around the country in the fine points of socialism and communism, knowledge which they then imparted to the rapt audience of American children who looked up to their teachers as the arbiters of truth and knowledge.

These teachers were usually the worst students one could marshall to teach anybody - they scored constantly in the lower 50th percentile of any teacher education tests, including the National Teacher Exam.

The organizer of the event read my three emails and responded that, I was probably mistaken, things are not so bad and never will be. But we still have to do something about it.