May 2, 2018
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
Journalism is dead. God isn't. And college kids are stupider than ever.
There's even an official study that says they're dumber than their predecessors. It's because of the courses they take, and the ones they don't.
If you're a history major at George Washington University, you don't have to take American history. In fact, less than one-third of U.S. schools require history majors to take a class in American history.
And other schools have alternatives for fulfilling the requirement.
The University of Connecticut accepts, "Hip-Hop, Politics and Youth Culture in America, as a history substitute, and the University of Pennsylvania allows "Witchcraft and Possession" in place of U.S. history.
Some courses are funny, like "How to Win a Beauty Pageant" (Oberlin College), and "The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media (Skidmore College).
Others, not so much.
A class at Ohio State University teaches students how to detect micro-aggressions and white privilege in "Crossing Identity Boundaries;"
A Florida Gulf Coast University offers a course titled "White Racism," where students are taught how to challenge white supremacy;
And Hunter College offers one, "The Abolition of Whiteness."
It's probably why none of these people can get jobs.
But the danger is more than stupidity.
Stupid people are malleable. An uninformed, stupid citizenry, which does not know its own history, will not know when it is losing its liberties, and thus cannot fight to keep them.
They are easy targets. To Sharia law-takeovers like in Michigan. To embracing Bernie-Free-Stuff-Type Socialism, without knowing what Socialism is.
They are guided to believe violence is an acceptable way to silence an opponent. They will accept masked-face anarchy as a good and useful thing.
And when banks, like Wells Fargo and Citibank, are pressured to impose gun control, by preventing credit card holders from purchasing guns, they do not protest.
It is what is happening in our country today. Erasing our borders, our culture, our language and our kindness to one another, best illustrated by the cruel ignorance exhibited at the Correspondents' Dinner this week toward a remarkable White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway and President Trump's daughter, Ivanka.
The Rule of Law has been torn asunder, by a Banana Republic-like coup which has formed within our government. Yet, those who are directly involved in this treasonous affair, have been allowed to go unpunished -- the Clintons, Comeys, Rosensteins, Strzoks, Pages and more.
This while a sitting president is persecuted and threatened with baseless impeachment.
All with the help of a sympathetic media and a cunning Liberal base.
This is grooming of the highest order.
It sets the stage for a man like former FBI Director James Comey to get away with criminal behavior; and allows for him to get an enthusiastic reception from students at a CNN Town Hall at the College of William and Mary.
Even though he is a liar and a leaker of confidential government information.
Even while his is plugging a book ironically called "A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership," and then, ironically, is hired to teach a course on Ethical Leadership at that college in the fall.
"Radicalized oppression and dehumanization is woven into the very fabric of our nation. The effects of which can be seen in the lawful lynching of black and brown people by the police, and the mass incarceration of black and brown lives in the prison industrial complex.
"Police officers continue to terrorize black and brown communities, abusing their power and then hiding behind their blue wall of silence, and laws that allow for them to kill us with virtual impunity."
This was a portion of the acceptance speech former 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, delivered upon receiving Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award, in Amsterdam, basically for taking a knee and disrespecting his country's flag.
His words mimicked those of former President Obamas's, and as such, he carried on the "Obama Apology Tour" tradition of attacking his own country while on foreign soil.
He's quite a guy.
Unfortunately, it is not just students who are unaware of what is happening to our country.
Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals have been used to create complacency, and a feeling of powerlessness among Americans. Ridicule and intimidation is the way they do it.
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." It's the Alinsky philosophy revered by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and used by the Deep State against Donald Trump's presidency.
None of this is by accident. And therein lies the danger.
Abraham Lincoln knew the ills that could befall the country he loved, and stated it in these words: "America will ever be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Hold the line, America.
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