So imagine the surprise when I was first called a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist, and brutally mocked, for pointing out that the educational system was overrun by leftist ideologues in league with the government to rewrite the text books and dictionaries at the behest of the federal government in order to keep the American People in line with their agenda.
Okay. Stated as I just did it does sound like a conspiracy theory and that is how I meant it to sound. What differentiates this from a typical conspiracy theory is that I didn’t say that there is one omni-powerful person acting behind the scenes to control our very lives and the education system is just one of the means to that end.
The basic difference is that I have no first hand evidence of the latter while the former is demonstrable directly from our own first hand observations and common sense.
I don't want to go down the tin foil hat conspiracy line but there are some things that are obviously true. To verify they are indeed happening you don't have to go much further than visiting a local school or reading an average history textbook. And it involves a bit of thinking.
If I were to say that “almost all spiders build webs of some sort” it is not a conspiracy theory on spiders. There is not some omni-powerful masterful super dictatorial spider working behind the scenes forcing other spiders to behave according to his sole will. It’s just a commentary on what they demonstrably do. There is no collusion between spiders on building webs because there doesn’t have to be. It’s just written into their code.
If we were to split humanity in half and call the side who just like government to leave them alone, conservative, then call the other half, who believes the government should control everything and tell everybody what is right and wrong according to their beliefs, liberals, then we would have what we have. Two groups of people who believe what they believe, vying for power. It is in the human code that they both try to expand their belief system to other people because that’s just what people demonstrably do.
It is a simple fact that people with liberal ideologies currently run the government. Let’s face it, they've taken over. This is not a conspiracy. It's just what people do as an intrinsic part of their nature. They try of their own accord to get other people to think as they do, just as everybody does.
The next demonstrable fact is that they have been running the school systems for a very long time. It is not a conspiracy theory to believe that there is a thing called the Department of Education. It is not my delusional mind that creates the idea that the Department of Education is an agency of the federal government that sets the uniform standards for the States as to what is supposed to be taught in all of the public schools.
It is also not a conspiracy theory that according to the Department of Education standards, they are the ones who have made the decisions as to what education the students have.
It is also within reason that some of those students grow up to become educators themselves. Some of them run local school boards. Some of them join up with their own state’s departments of education. Some of them even rise to the lofty heights of working within the Department of Education.
Is it crazy to think that some of those people then write textbooks and dictionaries according to how they themselves have been educated? I don’t think that’s even a stretch of imagination. Someone who is educated writes those books, and after all, those books are pretty real. You can even pick them up and beat the teachers over the heads with them in outrage for the lines of pure BS that they contain.
Summing it all up, after the educators have been educated according to the Department of Education standards, the educators write the text books, including the dictionaries, and they do so according to how they've been educated themselves. This they then teach to the students and so the process continues for another generation. It has a ring of obvious sense to it that doesn’t fit well within the tin foil hat circle of conspiracy theories. It’s just people believing what they believe and doing what they do.
Let’s go back to the top of the pile here. Pick a subject, any subject you please, in which you think the government of the United States is wrong. Now think for a second that those people within the federal government, who you think are wrong, have their hands in deciding how the children of the country are going to be educated. Now ask yourself which is more likely; are they going to make those decisions according to how you think they are wrong or will they make those decisions according to how they think that they are right? It’s not crazy to say that they are going to choose the latter. Every. Single. Time.
After these things get taught as truth in the school system, they get echoed in the media, social media and common culture, as if they were true. The person who doesn’t know them and agree with them is looked on as somewhat of a pariah and regarded as uneducated. For example as a long time constitutional purist I cannot even begin to count the number of times that I’ve been told how sad it is that I failed my civics class. I’m comfortable with it because I would rather know the truth, as I see it, speak the truth and be spurned for it, than live in ignorance or blindly accept lies. Some people would call it lunacy but I call it integrity.
Personal integrity is knowing what you know. What you know is what you know and to have the courage to know and say what you have observed. There is no other integrity.
So if the government is liberal and wrong, the schools are also going to be liberal and wrong. If the schools are liberal and wrong, it follows that the books written by the educators are also liberal and wrong. The information you've gotten from them during your own education, of course, has to be regarded with suspicion.
As a matter of philosophical belief I think we should question all things that are suspected to be incorrect information in our lives. We should also challenge ourselves to look for things within our beliefs that may not be true. Inconsistencies in some narrations of history and government, particularly, most certainly exist. It is not wrong to explore what the motivations for such errors are.
We must take all of the available facts and create a theory that matches those facts. Don't create a theory and then seek facts to prove it while rejecting facts that are inconsistent. That’s how you earn your tin foil hat. If anything you find places your theory in doubt and can't be disproved, your theory is wrong and needs to be updated. Hey, we all want to be right. That’s just the way we are wired. The challenge is to be big enough to think that what you believe could possibly be wrong and needs to be revised. This does not make you wrong. It makes you more right.
So from this point on, this article will explore some of the things I have seen in my own education that have proven in my mind to not be true. All of the following things are also still being commonly taught.
The first of these is so common these days that it can’t be an accident. And it’s repeated over and over again; ad nauseam. The United States is a democracy. Democracy is a good thing because it means “power to the people.” It is always a democracy when people vote. The majority should rule because it is a representation of the will of the People. This kind of thing goes on and on. The examples in which this is manifested in society are seemingly endless.
So what are the facts that contravene this enough that forced me to reevaluate my education regarding them? See, I used to believe the above and agree with it but I couldn’t help noticing some problems.
Democracy, rather than being the right to vote, is defined as majority rules over the minority. What protections does democracy have for the minorities? None. That’s something that I have a problem with.
There is also my frequently commented on text of the United States Constitution, Article Four, Section Four, which states; “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” This occasionally elicits a snarky and disrespectful response that “a republic is a kind of democracy because people vote so it represents the will of the people, moron.”
Well…yeah. Right. According to your liberal education, and generally bad attitude, I can know what I’m dealing with.
I’ve written more on this subject in this article but there is a simple way to tell the difference between a democracy and republic. If you vote directly on federal issues you live in a democracy. If you vote on people to represent you and they in turn vote on federal issues on your behalf you live in a republic. The two are mutually exclusive. Sometimes people will say that there is direct democracy versus indirect democracy, because there are representatives who are elected, but that just changes the form of government from a democracy to a republic. That’s what republic means; representative government.
Next on my list of educational horrors is that the Pledge of Allegiance is patriotic. That’s what we are taught anyway. I’ve recently written about this and don’t care to duplicate it here. So you can just browse on over to this article, The Pledge of Allegiance, and read about it there.
Moving on to the next subject we have the ever demonstrable fact that history is written by the victor so that the victor looks much better than they really were and the defeated look much worse.
Lincoln fought to free slaves and the Emancipation Proclamation is proof of that. Lincoln’s overreach was necessary to save the Union and the United States wouldn’t exist without him. Lincoln was honest and all of his actions were above reproach, even to the point of being personally endorsed by God Himself—yes, someone did once make that argument to me. States aren't constitutionally allowed to secede. The federal government has to control everything otherwise the States will forget about the rights of the People, so slavery would have continued forever without the "Civil War."
Counter to these educational points are the Emancipation Proclamation, which it is taught that Lincoln wrote in order to declare all slaves as free. To this I can easily say that you should actually read it. Contained within it is a list of all of the areas of the country which were exempted from it. Those areas include four States from the North that still held slaves, Washington DC, as well as any other part of the country and US territories abroad where the Union was still in control. It only freed the slaves in parts of the country in which he was not in control. So the Emancipation Proclamation, even according to some of his own cabinet members, Salmon P. Chase for example, freed nobody.
Continuing on that point is a little thing I call “Lincoln’s Paradox.” If it is wrong for a person to use force to hold another person in subservience to them against his will, as with slavery, how is it right for a nation to use force to hold entire States of people in subservience to them against their will? The best argument I’ve ever gotten on this point is the statement, “I believe that’s what God told him to do.”
The Fourth Debate with Douglas—September 18, 1858; just read the first statements by Lincoln in this debate. Is anybody here in favor of white supremacy? I can unambiguously say that I am not. But Lincoln, by his own words literally said that he was.
It is difficult to doubt how great a man Lincoln was. Just look. His likeness graces two forms of our currency, statues and monuments uncountable and even the faces of mountains. Just remember that people used to build monuments to Stalin as well.
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address is full of inconsistencies with what the schools are teaching. You should read it for yourself.
The idea that Lincoln’s unconstitutional overreach was necessary to “save the Union” and yet somehow still he supported the Constitution is an obvious contradiction. As Ayn Rand so helpfully pointed out, “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”
Speaking of things that are wrong, hundreds of countries have ended slavery. It is folly to think that the United States wouldn’t have done the same thing considering how unpopular slavery rightfully is. And there are dozens of historical examples of states leaving countries which continued to exist. Our very own and honorable State of Texas seceding from Mexico is just one of many examples. Here’s a news flash; Texas and Mexico—I know this is a surprise to some—still exist. So does Portugal and Spain. I’ll leave it to you to research the rest.
After that we have the idea from leftist Political Science professors that fascism is a right wing form of government and communism is left wing. This makes no sense. One is a big and powerful form of government telling people how to live, as being distinctly different from the other, which is a big…and…powerful…form…of…government…telling…people…how…to…live. See the difference? Neither do I, except in their methods of forcing the will of big government on the People.
Next is that the First Amendment applies to everybody in government. So logically a teacher telling a class or student to quiet down is a violation of the First because Congress established the Department of Education. The problem is that over stretching the First in such a way creates the opposite effect, limiting the free speech of the people involved in government itself. So we have the lunacy from the Supreme Court that it is unconstitutional for students and teachers to read their Bible or pray while at school, because, God forbid, someone might say something that endorses a religion. And we just can’t have people who are in the government saying what they want. See?
Speaking of the Supreme Court, we are taught that the Supreme Court has the authority to decide what is and is not constitutional. Imagine how I felt when I discovered that I’d been betrayed by none other than Schoolhouse Rock! Sigh…
Well? That is what some of you think isn’t it?
Look, the Constitution is simple. That’s why in my spare time I make videos like this. If you don’t believe me just read it. Sure, some of the words you’re going to have to work a bit to get a good understanding of. And the grammar is really quite dated. But you can get over it. You have it within your ability to understand what it says directly and for yourself. After that you cannot be lied to about its contents.
Well, it is said in frequent arguments to me that such and such court says this, that and some other thing about what the Constitution means so.... Yeah, well, so your case is that a bunch of tyrants got together and disagreed with me because I refuse to agree with them about the virtues of tyranny. Other than that, what's the point? I unambiguously and openly speak about the benefits of freedom under a constitutional government, as defined within the actual text of the document itself, and they surreptitiously speak about why they should be in control of everything. In spite of what tyrants in courts say, right is still right and wrong is still wrong. The bottom line is if something isn’t in the Constitution it isn’t in the Constitution. And far too frequently we are told that things that aren’t in it are in it, while things that are actually in it somehow don’t mean what they say. This is seriously very dangerous to our freedom, which I write more about right here.
The above is not at all completely comprehensive. These are the ones that I think are most dangerous because they all work to prevent us from restoring our constitutional republic and the freedoms gained therein. Even in speaking them or committing my thoughts, thusly and in writing, I am taking part in heresy against the powers of the United States federal government. Maybe I’ll even make the potential terrorist list.
There are many things we have been taught that are simply not true. Some are just honest mistakes or misunderstandings on the part of educators. Even were I to assume that these are made in innocence, I still would have to suspect everything because you can’t predict where the mistakes are or what the outcome of misunderstandings will be. In the area of politics and history I am highly suspicious of everything I’ve been taught. There is a lot to gain or lose based on what we have been told to think of as true.
It is within the nature of propaganda to change the story and even redefine words. The United States and the People therein are not immune to this effect.
This does not make it a conspiracy. It makes it observably true.
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