There cannot be any real doubt in the minds of most conservative and freedom-loving Americans that the U.S. public school system and communist teachers, from the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, have done more damage to our society on the whole than any other entity in recent memory. And by and large, through the people’s own complacency and careless, assuming attitudes, the American people created this situation themselves.

Of course, the majority is demanding reform now, as matters of their children’s education became foremost and urgent in the parents’ minds once they finally awakened to the harm educators were doing to their children, not just indoctrinating them to have beliefs contrary to what the parents believed but also grooming them to be sexually abused by adults.

My two daughters were lucky. I let it be known from the start, each year with each new teacher, just what I expected and what I would and would not tolerate being taught to them. And I made it clear that any attempt to indoctrinate them to adopt a Marxist mindset might earn them a trip to the hospital, to hell with lawsuits.

Yes, it’s good to know that the Trump administration is doing a great deal to combat this mess within our education system, but it’s too little, too late, in the grand scheme of things, given how long it’s all been underway. We’ll be waging this war in the courts, the news and the streets for decades to come, or maybe only a few years, if we descend into civil war, as I believe we will, between now and 2035.

I may be proven wrong, but I just don’t see how the nation survives such deep divides for much longer.

The… Idiots Are Destroying America

America has a nation of American Idiots more deluded, wrong and unhinged than ever before seen in U.S. history, railing against capitalism and toxic masculinity, e.g. “rednecks”, and in love with faggotry and communism and every other ideology from fascism to Islam that seeks to destroy one’s freedom and liberty. They are the Useful Idiots oft spoken about by an array of politicians from the earliest days of Marxist Communism, who were to be used by communist leaders to advance the ideology, despite its obvious flaws and shortcomings. And we owe it all to the “free” public education system and all the good, little anti-American communists who have infiltrated it as teachers and administrators, since it first started being made compulsory in many states in the 1920s, now compulsory nationwide.

Those of us, however few or many, were able to pull free from the vortex of the deadly black hole of all the communist anti-American propaganda foisted upon us from first grade to graduation only because we had good parents who questioned teachers and the school curriculum closely, fighting to halt the most objectionable material each year. We had parents who taught us to question everything and research deeper for ourselves, and they never were too busy to go and give a teacher a good cursing for teaching some immoral falsehood or some notion that was antithetical to the known moral substance of our country’s Christian and Western roots, those founding principles upon which the nation was founded; and there were regular folks too, in the community, sitting out in front of the local five and dime or inside the local family run restaurant who regularly offered their views on recent events – retired old timers, farmers, carpenters, firemen, lawyers, the waitresses and just average hard working men and women – oft found to have more wisdom and commonsense than the whole of the Democrat party communists of the day.

None of us of any advanced age group could ever have believed that one day we would see a pre-school teacher using flashcards of a pregnant man to teach the youngest of our children their colors. But that’s exactly what happened at Ballentine Elementary School in Wake County, North Carolina in 2022.

Once children become young adults and enter U.S. universities, the danger to their ability to think critically grows exponentially, since these institutions, by and large, are propaganda centers heavily controlled by some of the most radical Marxist-Maoist communists and Islamofascists one can imagine in disbelief to find that they actually do exist and work in America to destroy young people’s minds and brainwash them into giving up their individuality in favor of communist collectivism, to relinquish their freedom and liberty in the name of equal outcomes rather than equality under the law, ensuring they are made equal in poverty.

My alma mater, Middle Tennessee State University, was still a fairly conservative school in 1975, when I was first enrolled as a freshman. It was still very affordable, since government subsidies hadn’t yet pushed tuitions beyond reach in order to pay subpar “professors” exorbitant salaries far beyond their worth. But even so, this was the year it also became ever more apparent that ideological assembly lines passing for academic departments had been constructed – not so much to focus on the important subjects of math, science, English, geography and history – to subvert and dismantle the real knowledge of the world and the truth, in pursuance of gross lies and propaganda, which soon became a rollercoaster ride to hell and the attempt by the Obama and Biden administrations to fundamentally transform the country into a totalitarian communist nation.

America’s universities are at the heart of a good part of the garbage that currently works to tear our society apart. They have been turned into Marxist-Maoist indoctrination centers where young adults learn that this ideology means free stuff, never making them ask the important question of who actually gets stuck with the bill. It’s where America’s youth are indoctrinated to blame capitalism for everything from climate change to inequality and racism.

The American Idiot, those Useful Idiots, are now found across every discipline and throughout American society, university trained or not – steeped and learned in the Marxist-Maoist and Islamic propaganda, in every school, too many churches, states, corporations, and our television series and movies, and they have become incredibly intense and intransigent in their intent to destroy the republic, in order to usher in communism, very similar to, if more extreme than Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They ignore the truth and call it the lie, even when the facts are irrefutable, no matter the damage their ideas bring to their states and the country when actually implemented, and many of their pet projects such as blaming all whites for the ills of the country, implementing the tenets of Marxist-Maoist communism, and destroying traditional America and the republic now ride the momentum and a wave of fanaticism that can be traced back to 1968.

As noted by Patricia Mccarthy in 2010:

“Since 9/11, the dictatorial multiculturalists who inhabit and run our educational institutions, public and private, have been doing back-flips in order to appease and please the members of the shockingly numerous and insidious Muslim organizations which have managed to influence all forms of media and daily life. Can we have prayer before a school sports game or graduation? No. But we are teaching an ultra-sanitized, completely phony version of Islam to students throughout the country. A version in which “jihad” is only “Muslims’ struggle with internal and external challenges as they strive to please God.” Our middle-schoolers are being fed nonsense that only Islam is a “religion of peace,” that Muhammad was quite simply the finest man to ever walk the earth. No violence, ever! Muslims do not engage in violence. These textbooks, as Stephen Schwartz has written, are “corrupt” and “pseudohistorical,” “vividly sectarian, vividly promotional,” and do amount to “illegal religious indoctrination.” (He was writing about the book History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond).

We now witness the culmination of the tragic abandonment of America’s children to an education system facilitating an anti-American agenda, as young radical communist and Muslim students protest and riot across every major university in the U.S., giving rise to a renewed anti-Semitic, anti-Jew movement never before seen in America, at least not since the days when the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke were still going strong.

America’s academics, the intelligentsia, and their acolytes would rather become useful idiots for America’s enemies-from-within, because they are by and large aligned with them in every way. They don’t condemn those who attack Christianity and Judaism, women’s right or Israel’s right to exist. They appear to be thrilled over the attention they receive from being so tolerant of the intolerant amerikkan communists and those Muslim terrorists of Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and CAIR, as they trash America with every breath they take.

Indoctrination forces children to accept certain beliefs without any questions, disallowing any attempt to look at them critically. America’s founding principles and most of the early education experiences in our country did nothing but teach children to think critically and to understand the underlying facts and premises of the principles our society has followed and held true for so long, until public education was mandated and these most recent years with their rapid increase in the illiberal, Useful idiots who reject America’s founding principles outright in favor of communism and/or Islam and the tyranny that follows, intentionally or not.

Fortunately for all freedom-minded, liberty-loving Americans across the country, they received a win from the U.S. Supreme Court last month in the decision they handed down on Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which the majority ruled that parents in Montgomery County, Maryland could remove their young children from mandatory classes on gay, lesbian and transgender material. The county had been trying to mandate LGBTQ inclusive material in the English and language Arts curriculum for children between the ages of 5 and 11 – stories such as ‘Prince & Knight‘ about two male knights who marry each other, and ‘Love Violet‘ about two young girls falling in love; another story was about a biological girl transitioning into a boy.

The aforementioned material in the preceding paragraph is enough to make any normal parent want to kill a few teachers and destroy a school board, or at least beat the hell out of them with an axe handle.

Tar and feathers, anyone?

All of us who can think cogently and critically by way of sound reason based on all available facts have long known that our current education system is deeply flawed and it never had to be this way.

The best-educated people across the ages, such as Pericles, Cicero, Voltaire, Madam Curie, John Locke, Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman, were products of a liberal education, in the classical sense of the word “liberal” and far and away from the illiberal Marxist model that exists today. They were educated in a manner befitting a person of free birth, and they were not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or absolute forms. Instead, their education focused on developing one’s powers of reason and judgement, as opposed to professional or vocational skills. Education without barriers enhanced knowledge, and human ingenuity allowed ever-widening ranges of desire and needs of society to be satisfied rapidly.

Writing for the American Thinker in 2014, I noted:

“Friedrich Hayek, renowned economist and historian, explained in 1944 that the socialists everywhere were the first to recognize that the task they had set themselves required the general acceptance of a common and definite set of ‘values’. In Striving toward their singular worldview, they created most of today’s instruments of indoctrination. Common Core is just one such instrument in a long line of others.”

During the Obama and Biden administrations, America also bore witness to the hard push of the Marxist worldview into high schools and universities across the land, in regard to the Critical Race Theory, equitable outcomes and “social justice”, also known as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – read “redistribution of the wealth”, and the multiculturalism/globalist philosophy, as open borders and abortions on demand and the destruction of the traditional American family by way of the LGBTQ/Transgender/ Transhuman movements was pushed across society as “normal” and “settled law”. And while the Trump administration is making great strides in countering and eradicating this mess in the government offices and public schools that receive federal monies, make no mistake in believing it doesn’t still exist and flourish in a great portion of American society, to the shame of those who have any moral compass left.

Educators so often paint America as an evil country that has no right to exist, that it is disgusting, despicable, reprehensible and sickening to hear or read the propaganda that always spews from their warped, anti-American minds, the minds of black-hearted, small-minded men and women and the mental midgets of our country – more American Idiots – who cannot bring themselves to admit that the American “Experiment” is the greatest thing to ever happen to the world and all humanity, despite Her dark and terrible slave years, in that for the first time in human history equality under the law was married to individual liberty for all. Under the American system, as our country matured and the American Empire grew, we saw the highest level of individual liberty and prosperity within America and the nations allied with Her than had ever been witnessed in all of human history.

Yes – everybody is all too aware of slavery and Jim Crow era racism that was prevalent in America through the 1950s and the 1960s. But our people finally did rise to meet the challenge of both, and the country as a whole left that hurtful past behind, until educators and Marxist-Maoist politicians under President Barack Obama, “the Great Uniter” reopened old wounds and made race a new, hot, angry, burning issue in America in 2008, with their rhetoric and propaganda. And still the race baiters cry and scream about “imperialist America”.

Don’t expect America’s more youthful folks to outgrow or abandon their radical, anti-American radicalism anytime soon. Fifty-three percent of the GenZ folks between the age of 18 and 24 are purported to have completed at least some college, and the numbers of GenZ folks now pursuing higher education are at an all time high, which presents itself as a matter full of potential future trouble for the country, since the anti-American, anti-Liberty, anti-Christian ideologies of Marx, Mao and Mohammed have come to dominate so much of the education system at the university undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Some experts suggest that any such dramatic shift in societal mores and norms requires a minimum of fifteen years to turn around, but given the number of years America has been subjected to such an intense level of propaganda and indoctrination within the U.S. public school systems, it is much more likely that our people will need fifty years to wage this fight to take back the country to sound principles, traditional American values and commonsense, practical solutions for the country’s troubles, if only we had that much time left. Too many Americans have been made too ignorant and lost in their radical, dead-end ideas that are foreign to America’s founding. The educators have created such a deep and wide divide among the American people that reversing the trend and the incredibly destructive consequences of the decades long propaganda is virtually impossible. Our radical educators have set the stage for the next American civil war, because that is the only way the American people will find their way back to anything remotely resembling the principles of traditional America.

In the meantime, keep a close eye on your children and the curriculum they are being exposed to in school, if you can’t homeschool them. Question them in an easy, loving manner about their day at school and what they learned, what their teachers talked about and whether or not anything was suggested that made them uncomfortable for any reason. Keep a close eye on their teachers and make certain they are sticking to the three R’s, history, geography and science, and nothing else that falls under the purview of the parents to be talked about at home.

No matter how much the Marxist-Maoist Democrat Communists wish it to be otherwise, our children belong to us – We the Parents – and under no stretch of one’s imagination or some illegitimate phony “law” are our children mere creatures of the State.

Teach your children well. Teach them to live free at all costs.

July 16, 2025

~ The Author ~
Justin O. Smith has lived in Tennessee off and on most of his adult life, and graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1980, with a B.S. and a double major in International Relations and Cultural Geography – minors in Military Science and English, for what its worth. His real education started from that point on. Smith is a frequent contributor to the family of Kettle Moraine Publications.