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The Marginal Non-Hermit's avatar

Socialists have always been willing to airbrush out inconvenient people. Since the fundamental idea of statism is to get something for nothing, as long as statist schools continue to dominate, they will continue to train their students to expect something from nothing.

As a physicist, I’m trained to be skeptical of claims that violate of the second law of thermodynamics. Somehow, though, most physicists don’t apply that understanding of physical reality to politics. Most of them still want something for nothing.

Paul Menzies's avatar

Public education itself comes from a socialist impulse. The system is only doing what it was intended to do: indoctrinate students into statism and collectivism.

Lenin promised he would sell you the rope to hang yourself and he was proven right. He knew the wedges that could split society---look, free stuff!---and now they all do and welfare away. Who wouldn't vote for more free stuff? Or a privileged place in the eyes of the law and other institutions...

Interesting that you avoided the entire Muslim question here. Do you feel Marxism (etc) to be the larger threat?

Reginald Thibodeau's avatar

Excellent article, Conner. Marxist/socialist/communists have always been the ideologues of the elite, using the masses as their means of acquiring control, only to leave them in the dust once they have successfully instituted their agenda. Horace Mann was one of these elitist scammers.