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dmaestro 03-Sep-18, 10:49 |
 Socialism is Comingnews.gallup.com A new generation is rising which has seen the inevitableevils of capitalism for what they are. The growing wealfh gap and plutocracy which capitalism creates can’t be hidden behind McCarthyist propaganda anymore. Socialism is coming to America. |
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"How America Lost Its Mind" “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan —“We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so ‘realistic’ that they can live in them.” — Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961) www.google.com "American Students Need History - But Not For The Reasons You're Hearing" Back-to-school season is here, and with it all the familiar trappings—save one. Whereas in recent years national discussion has seemingly centered on America’s deficits in math and science, this year deficits in U.S. history are sharing the spotlight. At the close of this past school year, an alarm was sounded after the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed that a mere 18% of eighth graders were proficient in U.S. History. Weeks later, dozens of scholars signed a letter to the College Board condemning the redesigned AP course in history. Oklahoma legislatures had earlier voted to ban the course; similar bans were proposed in Georgia and North Carolina. The course has since been revised. History seems to be making news—though not in the manner we historians might prefer. Our students may not go on to all be historians, or even remember the hundreds of facts they learn in a given year. But through history they can become more disciplined and rigorous thinkers. They can be challenged to be more independent-minded analysts, and, I would argue, more compassionate human beings—skills that historical study inculcates and that lead directly to life and career success. The best reason to study history is not to memorize facts, but rather to experience the historical process and learn to interpret facts in a thoughtful, independent and meaningful manner. If we are to continue to foster national greatness and prepare students to independently assess an increasingly complex world, we should continue to promote such thinking. www.google.com And such critical thinking would naturally lead to understand that were American citizens to choose the path of Socialism it would be the death knoll of our Constitution! "10 Reasons to Reject Socialism" Why we must protect the family, private property and America from Socialism. 1. Socialism and Communism are the same Ideology Communism is but an extreme form of socialism. From the ideological standpoint, there is no substantial difference between the two. In fact, the communist Soviet Union called itself the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991) and communist China, Cuba and Vietnam define themselves as socialist nations. 2. Socialism Violates Personal Freedom Socialism seeks to eliminate “injustice” by transferring rights and responsibilities from individuals and families to the State. In the process, socialism actually creates injustice. It destroys true liberty: the freedom to decide all matters that lie within our own competence and to follow the course shown by our reason, within the laws of morality, including the dictates of justice and charity. 3. Socialism Violates Human Nature Socialism is anti-natural. It destroys personal initiative–a fruit of our intellect and free will–and replaces it with State control. It tends to totalitarianism, with its government and police repression, wherever it is implemented. 4. Socialism Violates Private Property Socialism calls for “redistributing the wealth” by taking from the “rich” to give to the poor. It imposes taxes that punish those who have been able to take greater advantage of their productive talents, capacity to work or thrift. It uses taxation to promote economic and social egalitarianism, a goal that will be fully achieved, according to The Communist Manifesto, with the “abolition of private property.” 5. Socialism Opposes Traditional Marriage Socialism sees no moral reason for people to restrict sex to marriage, that is, to an indissoluble union between a man and a woman. Furthermore, socialism undermines private property, which Friedrich Engels, founder of modern socialism and communism along with Karl Marx, saw as the foundation of traditional marriage. 6. Socialism Opposes Parental Rights in Education Socialism has the State, and not parents, control the education of children. Almost from birth, children are to be handed over to public institutions, where they will be taught what the State wants, regardless of parental views. Evolution must be taught. School prayer must be forbidden. 7. Socialism Promotes Radical Equality A supposed absolute equality among men is the fundamental assumption of socialism. Therefore, it sees any inequality as unjust in itself. Private employers are quickly portrayed as “exploiters” whose profits really belong to their employees. As a consequence, they rule out the system of wage earning. 8. Socialism Promotes Atheism Belief in God, who unlike us is infinite, omnipotent and omniscient, clashes head-on with the principle of absolute equality. Socialism therefore rejects the spiritual, claiming that only matter exists. God, the soul, and the next life are illusions according to socia 9. Socialism Promotes Relativism For socialism there are no absolute truths or revealed morals that establish standards of conduct that apply to everyone, everywhere, and always. Everything evolves, including right and wrong, good and evil. There is no place for the Ten Commandments, neither in the private mind nor in the public square. 10. Socialism Mocks Religion According to Karl Marx, religion is “the opium of the people.” Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, agreed: “Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.” www.tfp.org Be careful, dmeastro, what you support. It could come back and bite you! |
