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Jan 27, 2015 21:06:32 #
Don G. Dinsdale
Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
LIberals Are Rewriting Americas History to Create an Ignorant Electorate
Written on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 ~ By David L. Goetsch
high school
Liberals are rewriting Americas 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 perfectas Liberals define perfectif only we spend enough government money on it. But liberals face an interesting problem in trying to shape Americas future in their own image. That problem is Americas 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 Americas 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 todays 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 lefts 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 principlespersonal responsibility, individual liberty, free markets, and limited governmentare difficult to square with the future todays 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 Americas historythe truth about the Founders visionare 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 nations 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 Founders 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 Americas 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 lefts 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 Americas 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 Boards 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 thinkingamong many problemsis 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.
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The "dumbing down" of the American people started I'm guessing in the '40's and I was part of that group...
I've been interested in our history way ahead of my grade level so when 'bull-shit' was being shoveled (8th grade) I had been to the city library and had books to prove my point over theirs...
Did not make me very popular and finally a teacher took me aside and explained the game to me...
If I wanted a grade above a C - , I had to play by their rules...
I told my parents what was up and they where good Martini drinking FDR Democrats and told me to follow the school rules (my step-dad said "Did I think the whole world was wrong and I was right?" I said in this case yes! I got a slap from my mother! End of conversation!)...
Pissed me off and I started 'acting out' and by my senior year they had had enough of me and my attitude and expelled me and I had been involved in a "Car Club" fight and there had been a shooting, no one could prove I did anything, but a kindly Juvenile Judge suggested I go into the military rather than two years in CYA, so I join the Navy...
And they got to deal my attitude, after several incidents over a four year period I was allowed to leave with an honorable (questionable I think today) discharges and I returned with a much improved point of view and skills to make me valuable to a certain group of Italian friends from San Francisco & New Jersey, fun and games as a young & dumb adult (in age only)...
It literally took me to age 35 to even begin to see what a total f**k-up I had been till that time, sobriety helped I'm sure, but it took another 10 years to disconnect from my past...
I remember thinking what MLK said, Free at Last...
I have no idea where all this has come from and why now but there it is... Don D.
Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/articles/liberals-rewriting-americas-history-create-ignorant-electorate/
Written on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 ~ By David L. Goetsch
high school
Liberals are rewriting Americas 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 perfectas Liberals define perfectif only we spend enough government money on it. But liberals face an interesting problem in trying to shape Americas future in their own image. That problem is Americas 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 Americas 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 todays 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 lefts 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 principlespersonal responsibility, individual liberty, free markets, and limited governmentare difficult to square with the future todays 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 Americas historythe truth about the Founders visionare 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 nations 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 Founders 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 Americas 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 lefts 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 Americas 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 Boards 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 thinkingamong many problemsis 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.
~~~~~
The "dumbing down" of the American people started I'm guessing in the '40's and I was part of that group...
I've been interested in our history way ahead of my grade level so when 'bull-shit' was being shoveled (8th grade) I had been to the city library and had books to prove my point over theirs...
Did not make me very popular and finally a teacher took me aside and explained the game to me...
If I wanted a grade above a C - , I had to play by their rules...
I told my parents what was up and they where good Martini drinking FDR Democrats and told me to follow the school rules (my step-dad said "Did I think the whole world was wrong and I was right?" I said in this case yes! I got a slap from my mother! End of conversation!)...
Pissed me off and I started 'acting out' and by my senior year they had had enough of me and my attitude and expelled me and I had been involved in a "Car Club" fight and there had been a shooting, no one could prove I did anything, but a kindly Juvenile Judge suggested I go into the military rather than two years in CYA, so I join the Navy...
And they got to deal my attitude, after several incidents over a four year period I was allowed to leave with an honorable (questionable I think today) discharges and I returned with a much improved point of view and skills to make me valuable to a certain group of Italian friends from San Francisco & New Jersey, fun and games as a young & dumb adult (in age only)...
It literally took me to age 35 to even begin to see what a total f**k-up I had been till that time, sobriety helped I'm sure, but it took another 10 years to disconnect from my past...
I remember thinking what MLK said, Free at Last...
I have no idea where all this has come from and why now but there it is... Don D.
Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/articles/liberals-rewriting-americas-history-create-ignorant-electorate/
Jan 27, 2015 21:32:37 #
Jan 27, 2015 22:22:53 #
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
LIberals Are Rewriting Americas History to Create... (show quote)
So what is this"real history". in 50 words or less?
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Jan 28, 2015 00:20:02 #
Liberals are lying!
Conservatives #1 news source!
Politifact: 60% of Fox News claims have been found to be false!
#1138, no wonder hardly anyone responds!
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/27/politifact-updates-data-on-news-sources-finds-fox-news-lies-even-more-than-before/
Conservatives #1 news source!
Politifact: 60% of Fox News claims have been found to be false!
#1138, no wonder hardly anyone responds!
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/27/politifact-updates-data-on-news-sources-finds-fox-news-lies-even-more-than-before/
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
LIberals Are Rewriting Americas History to Create... (show quote)
Jan 28, 2015 00:24:06 #
Don G. Dinsdale
Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
migeli wrote:
So what is this"real history". in 50 words or less?
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Mine???
or
The Liberals dumbing down???
Their seem real simple, the first to paragraphs said it all...
Mine, smart kid, unwilling to follow direction...
Scared most of the time, covering it up attitude...
Kennedy's murder affected me more than I knew and some of what did during to Cuban blockade...
Drank way way to much...
Got sober and started changing, could life the old life sober...
Now 36 years later and everything (toys house's $$$) gone, but I'm above ground...
Best I can do... Don D.
[Way over 50 words, sorry]
Jan 28, 2015 00:30:06 #
Don G. Dinsdale
Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
Raylan Wolfe wrote:
Liberals are lying!
Conservatives #1 news source!
Politifact: 60% of Fox News claims have been found to be false!
#1138, no wonder hardly anyone responds!
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/27/politifact-updates-data-on-news-sources-finds-fox-news-lies-even-more-than-before/
Conservatives #1 news source!
Politifact: 60% of Fox News claims have been found to be false!
#1138, no wonder hardly anyone responds!
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/27/politifact-updates-data-on-news-sources-finds-fox-news-lies-even-more-than-before/
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You have a real problem with my post and who does or doesn't reply...
If anyone should have a problem it should be me, and I don't, I post article I FIND interesting, if other do or don't it's none of my business...
So chill out, enjoy your post for what they are and I'll do the same... Don D.
Jan 28, 2015 02:00:12 #
You evidently do not comprehend the purpose of a political forum!
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
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You have a real problem with my post and who does or doesn't reply...
If anyone should have a problem it should be me, and I don't, I post article I FIND interesting, if other do or don't it's none of my business...
So chill out, enjoy your post for what they are and I'll do the same... Don D.
You have a real problem with my post and who does or doesn't reply...
If anyone should have a problem it should be me, and I don't, I post article I FIND interesting, if other do or don't it's none of my business...
So chill out, enjoy your post for what they are and I'll do the same... Don D.
Jan 28, 2015 02:28:40 #
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
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You have a real problem with my post and who does or doesn't reply...
If anyone should have a problem it should be me, and I don't, I post article I FIND interesting, if other do or don't it's none of my business...
So chill out, enjoy your post for what they are and I'll do the same... Don D.
You have a real problem with my post and who does or doesn't reply...
If anyone should have a problem it should be me, and I don't, I post article I FIND interesting, if other do or don't it's none of my business...
So chill out, enjoy your post for what they are and I'll do the same... Don D.
Don,
Don't let the "uneasy rider" bother you. You have positive feedback, he has negative. Also you have 50% more feedback than he has. Most people do not comment when in agreement with the poster. Some give thumbs up, most do not. I think 'ol "dead at the end of the movie" just thumbs himself up. At any rate, i like the information you post
Jan 28, 2015 05:55:12 #
Raylan Wolfe wrote:
Liberals are lying!
Conservatives #1 news source!
Politifact: 60% of Fox News claims have been found to be false!
#1138, no wonder hardly anyone responds!
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/27/politifact-updates-data-on-news-sources-finds-fox-news-lies-even-more-than-before/
Conservatives #1 news source!
Politifact: 60% of Fox News claims have been found to be false!
#1138, no wonder hardly anyone responds!
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/27/politifact-updates-data-on-news-sources-finds-fox-news-lies-even-more-than-before/
Did the founders realise that eventually 1% of the people in this country would have more wealth than the rest combined?.Did they realise that this enormous wealth could be used to buy congress and the Supreme Court? Did they envision big oil,big ,pharma,and big insurance companies and all the lobbyists in Washington,working for special interests? Why go on and on about the founders,when they had limited knowledge of some of what could happen in the future? Wed have a bunch of oligarchs running the show right now.What would the founders say to that?
Jan 28, 2015 05:57:10 #
migeli wrote:
Did the founders realise that eventually 1% of the... (show quote)
Directed to Don D.,not you ,sorry.
Jan 28, 2015 07:43:16 #
Raylan Wolfe wrote:
You evidently do not comprehend the purpose of a political forum!
You think you do? Mr. "Cut it and Paste it if it has a bunch of big words?"
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Jan 28, 2015 07:59:36 #
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
LIberals Are Rewriting Americas History to Create... (show quote)
Thanks for that Mr. Don, good stuff in which I can relate! :thumbup: :thumbup:
Jan 28, 2015 08:39:54 #
Don G. Dinsdale
Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
beammeupscotty wrote:
Don,
Don't let the "uneasy rider" bother you. You have positive feedback, he has negative. Also you have 50% more feedback than he has. Most people do not comment when in agreement with the poster. Some give thumbs up, most do not. I think 'ol "dead at the end of the movie" just thumbs himself up. At any rate, i like the information you post
Don't let the "uneasy rider" bother you. You have positive feedback, he has negative. Also you have 50% more feedback than he has. Most people do not comment when in agreement with the poster. Some give thumbs up, most do not. I think 'ol "dead at the end of the movie" just thumbs himself up. At any rate, i like the information you post
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Thank You... Don D.
Jan 28, 2015 10:48:11 #
Hello Don, you're right; those who write the history books have been lying to you. That immoral behavior , however, has been going on for nearly 6 thousand years. People brag that they know, for example, that Obama is a puppet. He is; they inform us that there is someone " behind the curtain" pulling his strings. There is; what they don't understand is that there are beings pulling the strings of the "elite".
This, by the way, is why religions everywhere are so convoluted. If you want to understand why there is no truth to be found in all the usual places; read Ephesians 6:12.
There are only a few of us on the planet who completely understand the bible and can honestly teach it. You will not find any in traditional religion. Believe what ever you like; I'm only here to help. It is not my responsibility to convert. Remember this if nothing else; truth mixed with error - "is error". Good day.
This, by the way, is why religions everywhere are so convoluted. If you want to understand why there is no truth to be found in all the usual places; read Ephesians 6:12.
There are only a few of us on the planet who completely understand the bible and can honestly teach it. You will not find any in traditional religion. Believe what ever you like; I'm only here to help. It is not my responsibility to convert. Remember this if nothing else; truth mixed with error - "is error". Good day.
Jan 28, 2015 11:26:02 #
Don G. Dinsdale
Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)
GRB777 wrote:
Hello Don, you're right; those who write the histo... (show quote)
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I of course have no idea who you are, but there is something about your approach that intrigues me, in a very positive way... Don D. :thumbup:
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