Millennial Thinking
This generation has been deprived of the history that showed why America transformed the world from its founding. It was founded on the principles of liberty, private property rights, smaller govt and morality and religion that taught self governance.
In their view their parents ruined the world with their greed by practicing “capitalism”. The word has been redefined by progressives aka Marxist atheist humanists. They don’t really know what the free market is.
They have been good students of their Marxist humanistic professors. Working hard is bad cause you do it to make money and that’s greedy.
You say “we all want a world that works for everyone”. The founders established it. We have dropped the ball. Theyk have to care about what’s worked in the past and what hasn’t further back than 1980, 1950, 1920.
They don’t even realize that destroying what they call capitalism will increase poverty and starvation.
In their view their parents ruined the world with their greed by practicing “capitalism”. The word has been redefined by progressives aka Marxist atheist humanists. They don’t really know what the free market is.
They have been good students of their Marxist humanistic professors. Working hard is bad cause you do it to make money and that’s greedy.
You say “we all want a world that works for everyone”. The founders established it. We have dropped the ball. Theyk have to care about what’s worked in the past and what hasn’t further back than 1980, 1950, 1920.
They don’t even realize that destroying what they call capitalism will increase poverty and starvation.
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1) The USA was founded on principles they thought would keep the country free of domination by England , both on economic and religiious grounds.
2) Slavery was made to be an exception to the "freedom of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness". They specifically left off "property" so as to permit slavery.
3) Just as today, the documents were a series of compromises in order to get agreement. They were NOT based on some sort of moral principles, such as Objectivism.
4) The actual actions of the government were pretty bad in terms of stealing land from the indians, running the mormons out of town because of their religion allowing polygamy (who cares how many wives a man has anyway).
5) Most of those founding fathers, including Jefferson and Washington, had slaves (because they needed them to run their plantations !).
6) The lack of preservation of private property in the constitution has resulted in most of the very bad laws we have now and most of the bad actions that the government takes against us citizens.
As an atheist, how do you define the moral rules?
Do you believe in the 10 commandments, and the some of the teachings, aside from "God", etc.
Or are you a Religious is a Destructive force kind of person?
Or anything goes, nihilistic approach?
For the record, I left the Church as a kid who found "Formal Religion" to be a problem.
I would say "I am Spiritual, but not religious" for 20+ years.
Later I realized the society was making that path easier (as was the pope). I don't like most
organized religions, per se. But I have started going back and revisiting the bible and have realized that I was always more or less Christian because the 10 commandments and the overall teachings were ingrained in me. I just don't need the Pomp and Glitter.
Now I realized how ingrained they are into what we consider society. and if you have no religion, I believe YOU BETTER have a moral belief system that expects MORE (not less) of you.
So I am genuinely curious as to how you square that in your life? Or if you have even thought about it?
Thanks.
http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/
Me dino thinking. Reagan saved us from four more years of Peanuts Carter and the malaise of his ineptitude. Peanuts moved on to doing a better job building houses as a charity worker.
When I went to Troy State on the GI Bill before I even heard of Peanuts, a liberal bias was being noticed as prevalent in the media. The Vietnam war and Tricky Dicky had helped that along. Me dino was a lib when I left the Marines in 1971 but a college course in logic and the malaise of Peanuts helped to burn that out of me. So much so I enthusiastically voted for Reagan to keep him around for eight years.
While Tricky Dicky, Pardoning Ford, Peanuts and Reagan were in office, many hippies (and radicals) of the 60s were becoming teachers at all levels of education. That would include the federal level of government.
Yeah, it all makes sense.
When with Reagan admin she found a info of the Soviet indoctrination into our public Ed . She wrote a briefing to the President and gave it to his secretary. Next thing she is relieved of her duties and allowed to stay with no specific job she spent 2years researching the dumbing down in the Ed. System. It has continued unabated since.
Yeah, I'd like toi meet the creeps behind this organized indoctrination and turn into a real allosaur.
Rush Limbaugh clued me in on "the dumbing down of America" during the early 90s but I never heard of the insidious movement explained in such detail. So thanks, D.
They used to be and still are ,it is the grand scheme. Obey and be a good debt slave.
They and the parents have been conned by
Identity politics and the PC that is the control mechanism.
Benjamin Bloom an educational psychologist outlined a classification of learning objectives that has come to be known as Bloom's taxonomy and remains a foundational and essential element within the educational community as evidenced in the 1981 survey.
Bloom states that "the purpose of education is to change the thoughts, actions and feelings of students."
He also said "good teaching is challenging and changing the students fixed beliefs"
And "Talent is not something to be found in a few but to be developed in the many."
Are you familiar with Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt's
Book the Dumbing Down Of America
Mrs Iserbyt is an American hero in my opinion.
She was senior policy advisor to dept of Ed under President Reagan.
For a short interview approx 10 mins she will explain how what and why . https://youtu.be/DDyDtYy2I0M
Someone, maybe it was Reagan, said that the Department of Education should be abolished. Well, he had that right. Start there and then go on to the NEA. It's worthless and charges dues that are way too high. When it comes to choosing history text books, get some of the parents involved...maybe not in California. You are right. It is a lost cause.
Me dino is with those who say education is the responsibility of each state.
Kalifornia? Forget about it for a lost cause anyway.
At this point maybe half the states will teach history as it actually happened.
You seem to agree on the consensus here regarding capitalism.