What was America?

Why ask such a question? Because Americans have a profound need to understand fundamental economic issues and the policy alternatives society utilizes in order to reason accurately and objectively and make informed choices with democratic votes. That is arguably the singular premise upon which the experiment in American liberty depends and the most important determinant of success and continued existence of our nation.

Americans, since the earliest days of the nation’s founders, were informed and engaged, arguably until the advent of the Education Department. Ever since, knowledge accumulation in our nation's schools has been minimal, and as a result, informed choices are rare at any level of society, particularly in Congress and the Courts. The trajectory of the trend resembles that of a gliding anvil.

The cause and effect is readily apparent. Everything that is clearly visible in society today, including culture, was once taught, indoctrinated, condoned, repudiated or ignored in the education, media and entertainment systems of America, which in large part explains why several Supreme Court Justices know so little about the Constitution of the United States of America or the Bill of Rights.

We casually joke and occasionally complain about congressmen, but they weren’t born that way. They were educated and trained by our academic institutions, and encouraged by a justice system that rewards social avarice. Similarly trained were our judges, trial lawyers, doctors, corporate executives, pilots, nurses, school teachers, police officers, governors, mayors, etc.

Americans are today exactly what we taught them to be - in our schools. They are precisely what our educational institutions created yesterday. In other words, today’s educators will always create tomorrow’s culture which, without serious change, will be intellectually, culturally, morally and ethically vacant.

Since our youth are specifically being indoctrinated to reject liberty and morality, and embrace licentiousness and collectivism, what would you reasonably expect economically and politically in the years ahead?

Only in unusual cases does a family have a modifying influence. The fortunate student avoids drugs and finds access either to a private school or a school voucher program. If you think about it, liberals have proudly and defiantly strived for years to replace parents with a village, family with a government, parents with law enforcement, reward the less productive and marginal achievers with a free ride, and to deny citizen access at the state and local levels to all forms of private, religious and charter schools, and all forms of voucher programs.

Assuming that all the brightest children in America weren’t victims of abortion, the only other explanation for the low achievement scores and educational AIDS (acquired intelligence deficiency syndrome), is an inexcusable public (government) education system, with mindless administrators, unqualified and under-employed educators, tenure without excellence or accountability, unmotivated miscreants as students, massive state and federal government subsidies, institutionalized prejudice, and government oversight and regulation in lieu of private enterprise and competition.

In the meantime, educators make the achievement tests easier and easier, and when that doesn’t work, they lower the passing score and claim improving results and unions demand pay raises and benefit increases.

Educational AIDS is no less a disease than HIV, and no less deadly to the nation. Nor is there any cure short of eradication. That must begin with a profound national attitude and behavioral change from one of inept delivery of poor quality indoctrination to irresponsible youth, to one of individual responsibility to obtain an education and personal accountability for failing.

No amount of taxation, grants, endowments, programs, subsidies, sports, magnificient campus structures, salaries, tenure and redistribution of opportunity give a single youth the barest elements of an education. Only when a majority of Americans begin to understand that education is possibly the only thing in life that cannot be "given" - and instill that reality in their children and their politicians, will change begin.

Red State Patriot

Posted June 6, 2006 02:24 PM
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