by Michelle Malkin
{americanthinker.com} ~ Many critics say our public schools are a train wreck. In Charlotte Iserbyt's memorable phrase, we are all victims of "the deliberate dumbing down of America."... Is there any escape? Perhaps, but only if we're candid about what has been done to us throughout the past century. Here's how bad things are now. Camille Paglia, popular professor and author, declares: "What has happened is these young people now getting to college have no sense of history – of any kind! No sense of history. No world geography. No sense of the violence and the barbarities of history. So, they think that the whole world has always been like this, a kind of nice, comfortable world where you can go to the store and get orange juice and milk, and you can turn on the water and the hot water comes out. ... They know nothing!" Professor Patrick Deneen at Notre Dame says, "My students are know-nothings. ... Their brains are largely empty. ... They are the culmination of western civilization, a civilization that has forgotten nearly everything about itself, and as a result, has achieved near-perfect indifference to its own culture." Let's jump farther back to 1983 and the famous "Nation at Risk" report produced by a congressional investigation, which concluded: "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people." Then came the wonderful deadpan crescendo: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." Please savor this. Our schools are so bad that the Russians are probably in charge – that is, the communists. This shocking statement merely reveals the obvious. A decade earlier, celebrated communist author Herbert Marcuse, in Counterrevolution and Revolt, applauded "the strategy of the long march through the institutions: working against the established institutions while working within them ... by 'doing the job', learning how to program and read computers, how to teach at all levels of education, how to use the mass media."... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/10/k12_why_so_little_for_the_mind.html
by Michelle Malkin
The metaphors don’t get any better (or worse) than this: A van carrying liar-Hillary Clinton, fresh from throwing her #MeToo sisters under the bus this weekend, crashed into a parking garage pillar on the way to a New Jersey campaign fundraiser Tuesday for beleaguered dummycrats-Democratic Sen. scumbagp-Bob Menendez. At her side was Huma Abedin, who is divorcing convicted serial sexter and underage girl stalker ex-dummycrats-Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner.
Thankfully, no one was hurt in the accident. But politically, damaged goods plus damaged goods equals an epic car wreck.
Tone-deaf liar-Clinton had just earned recriminations from the left’s resistance wing for defending her horndog hubby on “CBS Sunday,” where she flatly denied that the 49-year-old commander in chief’s Oval Office sexcapades with 22-year-old intern Monica Lewinsky were an “abuse of power” because, well, “she was an adult.”
This is the same fauxminist champion who sidled up to disgraced Hollyweirdo Harvey Weinstein despite warnings from entertainment industry insiders about his alleged sexual predation of young starlets that reportedly dated back to 2008.
Question: Who could have possibly thought it a good idea for liar-Hillary and Huma to front a women-themed party for Sleaze-scumbag-Bob Menendez?
Answer: only a conglomerate of liberal hacks and flacks with more blind spots than the Land of the Cyclops.
The powerful pol, running for a third term in the U.S. Senate, is up to his eyeballs in personal and professional skeeviness:
–scumbag-Menendez flew the crony skies on multiple luxury flights to the Caribbean with wealthy donor pal Salomon Melgen on taxpayer dime and time.
–Sleaze-scumbag-Bob in turn used his Senate influence to push a lucrative port security deal benefiting Melgen.
–Creepy doctor Melgen was convicted of bilking sick old people on 67 counts of massive Medicare fraud totaling $90 million.
–And in my favorite mendacious scumbag-Menendez-engineered scheme, which I dubbed the 36DD visa program, scumbag-Menendez and his staff pressured the State Department to expedite the foreign tourist and student visa approval processes for a bevy of buxom foreign beauties. As I previously reported, one of them, Brazilian actress and porn pinup star Juliana Lopes Leite (aka “Girlfriend 1”), had her F-1 student visa application moved to the top of the pile in 2008 after scumbag-Menendez and his staff intervened as a favor to model-lovin’ Melgen.
–Another 36DD visa beneficiary, Rosiell Polanco-Suera, testified that her rejected visa application (along with her sister’s) received reconsideration and instant approval after Melgen promised to “fix it” by reaching out to scumbag-Menendez.
And that’s all on top of the sordid and unresolved mess involving scumbag/liar-nObama Justice Department court filings related to the “specific, corroborated allegations that defendants scumbag-Menendez and Melgen had sex with underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic.” Melgen owned the Casa de Campo resort home where he and scumbag-Menendez reportedly engaged in sexual romps with a bevy of Dominican escorts, including at least one minor girl.
The same dummycrats-Dems and femmes who demanded we “believe all women” during the Brett Kavanaugh witch hunt declined my invitation in 2013 to join my bipartisan Ladies Against Senator Sleaze-scumbag-Bob group when reports of the underage prostitute parties broke.
I’m still waiting for a single female dummycrats-Democrat to step up to the plate. Tick. Tock.
Here’s the good news: Despite the best efforts by Beltway dummycrats-Dems and their media allies to whitewash the aftermath of scumbag-Menendez’s federal corruption mistrial last fall, New Jersey voters smell a rat. The Garden State may be bluer than Papa Smurf, but scumbag-Menendez’s approval ratings are taking an island dive and recent polls should him in a dead heat with GOP challenger Bob Hugin.
This week, Senate Majority PAC, the Senate dummycrats-Democrats’ super PAC, announced it would be dumping $3 million to help scumbag-Menendez in the state that liar-Clinton won by a 14-point margin over Donald Trump. That’s $3 million diverted from other competitive Senate races in battleground states, including North Dakota, Nevada, Indiana, Florida, Tennessee, Montana and Missouri.
So the Titanic attempt to save sinking Sleaze-scumbag-Bob may end up torpedoing the dummycrats-Dems’ chances of re-taking the Senate. No worries, though. I hear liar-Hill and liar-Bill will have plenty of room on their Corruptopalooza post-election speaking tour stage for the losers.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/58893?mailing_id=3800&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3800&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
Comments
Bonnie
Not sure if homeschooliing will fix the mess but its not a bad start. What we need is to remove the liberal teachers, the communist ideology and start teaching our kids.
when i red this Camille Paglia, popular professor and author, declares: "What has happened is these young people now getting to college have no sense of history – of any kind! No sense of history. No world geography. No sense of the violence and the barbarities of history. So, they think that the whole world has always been like this, a kind of nice, comfortable world where you can go to the store and get orange juice and milk, and you can turn on the water and the hot water comes out. ... They know nothing! I HAVE NEVER RED A TRUER STATEMENT. YES THIS IS THE PROBLEM W/OUR KIDS TODAY THEY ARE TAUGHT NOTHING THAT IS WHAT THE GOVT WANTS NO INDIVIDUALISM; NO THINKING PEOPLE NO ONE KNOWING ANYTHING ABT THIS COUNTRY OUR HISTORY THAT IS WHY THEY CAN TAKE DOWN STATUES W/O CARING END CAPITALISM W/O CARING THAT IS THE ISSUE WE MSUT FIX
WE HAVE TO TEACH THEM AT HOME OR LOOSE THIS NATION FROM W/IN OUR OWN KIDS THIS IS WHAT LIBERALS ARE DOING TO THEM. IT HAS TO STOP NOW