In Huntingtown, Maryland, a school bus driver heard an 11-year-old boy talking about how he wished he had a gun to protect everyone from bad guys. You know—like a normal American kid, or at least like how a normal American kid used to be able to think of himself, until silly, freedom-fearing, anti-violence fanatics and ideologues were allowed to get their hands on the controls of the culture. But this is 2013, and we have an irresponsible President who speaks about justifying any measure “if it will save the life of just one child.” So the bus driver reported this innocent conversation to the principal, who suspended the sixth grader for ten days, telling him that “with what happened at Sandy Hook if you say the word ‘gun’ in my school you are going to get suspended.”
Fact: This is blatant indoctrination, state-sponsored bullying and attempted mind-control.
Fact: This was the direct, predictable, and quite possibly intended result of the irresponsible, cynical, emotional, factually-misleading rhetoric engaged in by the President and Vice-President, Senator Feinstein and others in Congress, liberal media advocates like Piers Morgan, David Gregory, CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times, grandstanding Hollywood celebrities and sympathetic but biased figures like Gaby Giffords and the Sandy Hook parents in the wake of the Newtown shootings.
Fact: This cannot be brushed off as the foolishness of one addled and hysterical fool principal. The bus driver has\s been infected by the Left’s anti-gun madness. Since the principal was not immediately told that he was an over-reacting knucklehead and required to write the Bill of Rights on the blackboard a hundred times of seek new employment at J.C. Penney’s, we know that his superiors are addled and hysterical fools as well. Since a mob of parents did not promptly march on the school board and demand that child-abusing hysterics no longer be allowed to have charge of their children, it is reasonable to assume that the anti-American contagion exhibited by the principal has infected much of the community too.
Fact: The intimidation of the state was brought to bear against the innocent family of the boy, since he dared to express delusions of courage, heroism and proactive conduct in the ongoing battle for good and right, proving, in this burgeoning Maryland Amerika, that he had not been properly inculcated with the state-approved values of pacifism, surrender to state power, and obedience to the authority of the almighty Left. A sheriff’s deputy thus was dispatched by the school to the boy’s home, where the deputy tried to search it without a warrant, according to the boy’s family. “He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and the deputy said he’s going to have to search my house. Search my house? I just wanted to know what happened,” the father said. The man was able to avoid the illegal search after filling out a four-page questionnaire issued by the sheriff’s office, which he should not have had to answer at all.
Maryland is one of our most liberal states, and I gather that a lot of the citizens there, perhaps a majority, see nothing wrong with this scenario. You know, I don’t like writing in the tone I used above, and I don’t like feeling the sinking, “oh my God, the paranoid right wing nuts were right!” sinking feeling in my stomach that made me write that way. But the months of media-assisted propaganda seeded and cheered on by the White House, the emotion-based, fact-free hectoring by Feinstein, Mark Kelly (Gaby Giffords’ puppeteer), media scolds, Biden, the President and the rest have successfully created a metastasizing cultural attitude where this kind of outrage can not only occur, but be defended. In such a culture, all of the extravagant warnings issued by the likes of Mark Levin, Sen. Ted Cruz and even certifiable loons like Michele Bachmann can no longer be dismissed as right wing fantasies. A culture that allows a child to be punished for dreaming of being one of the crime-fighting, gun-wielding heroes that the united States has always embraced in fiction and reality is fully capable of seizing citizens’ firearms. Such a culture is capable of criminalizing the desire to protect one’s home and family. Such a culture is a threat to the Bill of Rights and American values.
And whether they intended it or not—and my conclusion today may be different than what it was just a few months ago—our elected leaders are accountable for nurturing such a culture within the United States, and that culture is dangerous, divisive, and un-American. President Obama claims to favor “teaching moments.” If he agrees that the irresponsible message and philosophies he appeared to be embracing in the wake of Sandy Hook was misinterpreted, then he needs to take responsibility and say so. If he does not, then I may be forced to apologize to those I have derided for their predictions of a future America facing internal insurrection. If you think that prediction is too dire, then you tell me: where, when and how does the indoctrination and disrespect for basic individual rights stop? Who is going to stop it, when it emanates from the highest offices in the land, and is bolstered by a submissive media?
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Sad that the Revolution began with New Englanders, and to see their descendents today.
I saw an episode of American Pickers (History Channel series about looking through people’s junk for possible antiques or retro collectibles) that was set in Maine. A junk collector indicated that he was at a flea market or rummage sale of some sort. He found in a pile of old rusty toys an OLD OLD *toy* musket with a trigger and lock mechanism that was completed rusted tight.
He mentioned that as he picked up the obviously *INOPERABLE* *TOY* *MUSKET*, people around him grew uneasy and he heard comments such as “Oh my god, is that gun?”, “That’s horrible”. He even admitted to fealing odd about handling the *INOPERABLE* *TOY* *MUSKET*.
That’s the kind of brainwashing we have to deal with from the descendents of those who founded our nation. Hell, in this specific case these were Joshua Chamberlain’s people for crying out loud.
Hold on Jack. Most liberals I know would not support this punishment — because liberals also support that whole free speech concept. And schools are out of control generally. Inconsistent treatment of bullying comes to mind. And it’s not just guns — I once was a guardian ad litem for a young boy who brought a knife to school. He didn’t use it, but he brought it one day to protect himself (it was a violent inner city school). He had no record of any violence whatsoever, but because the knife was discovered (he didn’t attempt to use it, he just told a kid he had one in his backpack), he was expelled and put immediately into the JV system. There, he did learn to become a petty criminal and ended up going away for a longer sentence for attempting to steal a car. This young man might have very well had a different life if the school’s knee jerk reaction hadn’t been to have him immediately prosecuted. This was many years ago before there was all this media attention about school shootings. This is more about schools having bright line rules that are blindly applied more than anything else.
How is treatment of bullying inconsistent?
In this case, I am not even sure there was a clear, explicit rule against saying the word, “gun”.
And if there were, see Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969)
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Seriously? You actually think that?
Try disagreeing with Obama policy, and see how much they support your right to free speech.
I’ve never seen the left try to get the Government to shut down criticism of Obama. Public criticism of speech is not a violation of a right to free speech. Where do you get your information, Sarah Palin?
Really…
So efforts to silence Beck, Limbaugh, and anyone else critical of the administration is what, just for the lulz?
You’re an adorably useful idiot, tgt…
Who is trying to get the government to shut them down?
I think it’s hard to argue that the “Fairness doctrine” isn’t an Orwellian way for the Left to limit and censor conservative talk radio.
You mean the doctrine that no longer exists?
Irrelevant. It stands as debunking your argument beginning with: ” I’ve *never* seen the Left…” Emphasis mine.
No, it doesn’t, as the fairness doctrine (1) predates Obama, and (2) wouldn’t shut down criticism of Obama.
Ablative’s statement is still stupid. He’s suggesting that the private individual’s campaigns to private companies and the public is a violation of free speech.
Fair enough in the specifics
Right. But it is still advocated by the Left—I have heard Randi Rhoades and others beat the drum for it for years. Do you doubt that if it would fly, the Left wouldn’t love to impose it? Did you not read the calls, some from members of Congress (idiots, I grant you) for pulling Rush Limbaugh off the airefor “hate speech” when he called Sandra Fluke a slut?
I am not making the statement that their aren’t asshats on the left that support the fairness doctrine.
I actually don’t recall calls from congress for pulling Rush Limbaugh off the air for hate speech, but I don’t doubt they, stupidly, occurred.
Neither of those, though, contradict my statement: “I’ve never seen the left try to get the [g]overnment to shut down criticism of Obama.” or support Ablative’s: “Try disagreeing with Obama policy, and see how much they support your right to free speech.”
Yes, on those points you are on solid ground.
Prominent members of the Left try to force self-censorship where Obama is concerned, by casting all criticism as “racism.” Martin Bashir’s claim yesterday that “IRS” is the new “nigger” was a particularly odious example of that. I ultimately decided that it was too stupid to bother writing about. But this guy is on MSNBC 5 days a week!
Agreed.
To be fair, he did say that he had never seen the left do it…
Which means that if it happens on MSNBC nobody sees it. Local public access gets better ratings than those people…
Is that supposed to be an argument for something?
Chris Plante, speaking of Bashir, said this AM, “The man is making the dozens of people who watch him believe that that requiring government accountability is racist!” I almost drove off the road.
The “media” has been consolidated into the hands of a very powerful few. Even when there are “Liberal” success stories, and there have been consistent ones – they are pulled off the air for sports, religious or reich-wing programming nationwide – amid protest of their audience. It’s a canard that these are unprofitable.
The gutting of the “fairness” doctrine, Orwellian nameplate and all, is controlled by these “media elites” who chirp insistently about how Liberal the media is, but in all actuality is not. Only a certain point of view is allowed to be broadcast, or “the people of american gas and energy freedom” or “monsanto & co” will pull their $bazillion ad campaign.
Obama is merely the continuation of the Bush Doctrine in many aspects – conservatives should be glad.
Ugh.
Nice answer for a question you can’t. Answer.
What was the question?
What was the question TGT was supposed to answer?
yeah, my fault – more like a statement. I heard this on Bill Press this morning, paraphrasing: “All 1000 of the nationally syndicated and funded Right wing radio hosts call out Obama for trying to suppress their point of view, meanwhile all successful Left wing radio hosts (where are they all again?) On the internet as independent web-based programs.
I know this for a Fact because my home town, Kansas City, does not have a “progressive” radio station at all. So basically, the “ugh” of tgt is the only thing he can say to address that he is bitching about a “problem” of the poor, persecuted right is completely Manufactured Myth. Which is their job to Perpetuate.
I think a large amount of complaints by the Right in regards to media domination by the Left is that Televised media and Cinema is generally without question a virtual Leftist monopoly.
There the argument can be made, which one has the majority audience of Americans?
If TV and Movies really do dominate our information sources, then the Right does have a fair argument to be defensive of governmental imposition on their little niche in radio.
Bill Press is a good example of why there is a dearth of progressive radio stations. He isn’t honest, he isn’t smart, he isn’t fair, and he isn’t entertaining—he’s just angry and partisan This is like conservatives complaining that all the satirical news shows come from the left. They do, because the Right hasn’t come up with one that anyone would want to watch.
I’d take Press’s opinion more seriously if the Left would admit the tax-payer funded bias of NPR and PBS.
Blame, such “Progressive” stations have been tried…
Tried, and failed.
THAT is Free Market, not the calls to attack advertisers who buy time during successful shows…
blame,
The “ugh” was to the secret cabal of conservative media elite. The owners and producers of TV and print journalism do lean left. Some of that, unfortunately, bleeds into the content. The producers and content of radio is very rightward, but that’s what the market has wanted. I don’t think those owners lean particularly right.
Left-wing politicians who have publicly stated their support for the Fairness Doctrine include Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, and John Kerry.
It’s not like we’re talking about some tiny lunatic fringe.
Like the Alien and Sedition Acts, it’s not around any more because it’s indefensible- not because Democrats didn’t try to defend it.
John Kerry also has straight-up said Tea Party voices shouldn’t be given equal time.
Would you like to argue any other irrelevant points that I’ve already stipulated to?
I hated what Rush said about Fluke — he was deliberately being obnoxious — but no one should try to get him off the air. That’s what the free market is for. As long as people want to listen to him, he will keep his show. The same goes for all programming.
No one should use the government to try to get him off the air. Trying to get him off the air without the government IS free market.
Right.
Allow me to express my shock and amazement that you doesn’t seem to understand the concept of “free market” either.
Oh, wait. I’m not.
Well shit, this just got fucking awkward…
No, it is not.
I’m not surprised you don’t understand the distinction, what with you having little to no grasp as to what “free market” is and all, but I will try to use small words so you can follow along…
The Free Market solution would be support for someone opposite Limbaugh, someone whom YOU agree with.
The Statist solution is what you suggest – actively seeking to attack the revenue of shows and people you disagree with in order to silence them.
The former has the possible eventual outcome of someone going off the air, but it is not the primary goal.
I keep forgetting that I’m such an idiot. Thanks for reminding me Meathead. I’ll turn in my diplomas and law license tomorrow. Wouldn’t want to keep living a lie.
Delightful Appeal to Authority/Accomplishment fallacy, Beth. You make sucking at arguments look so EASY…
You aren’t the sort of lawyer who actually has to show up in court, are you? If so, I certainly hope you are a prosecutor.
Again, you and tgt have horribly flawed concepts of what “Free Market” is, but it really isn’t your fault. After all, your party entirely disdains them, so why would you actually have any idea what they actually are?
Statist requires, well, using the state. Both of your solutions are free market solutions. Heck, without the latter, the free market doesn’t work. It’s just consumer pressure being placed on commercial interests.
here’s an example that contradicts the whole “free” market illusion. The market is only “free” as the corporatocracy allows it to be. As Carlin said so eloquently, paraphrasing: “…our freedoms have been boiled down to “paper or plastic?” or what flavor bagel we want.”
Here’s a link to a guy 20+ years ago and his water-charged engine.
Notice the title of the video – and there’s LOTs with the same title.
So this guy builds a better mousetrap (Tucker-esque) and is crushed. That is not a free market.
The car didn’t run on water, it ran on hydrogen, and you can’t separate out hydrogen for less energy than you get out of the reactants. Period. This is basic physics.
The rest of his idea – powering a car with hydrogen – is not dead. It just lacks two key things – safety (hydrogen go boom) and infrastructure (where get thing that go boom).
You’re starting to sound like one of those conspiracy nuts, dude… You should watch out for that.
AM,
You think blameblakeart is starting to sound like a conspiracy nut?
You mean the one Pelosi and others have said they want to bring back?
That line of attack was already tried and shut down. https://ethicsalarms.com/2013/06/06/boy-do-i-ever-hate-thinking-like-this-and-curse-the-irresponsible-leaders-who-made-me/comment-page-1/#comment-78058.
So the fact that prominent members of the Left have sought such tools for shutting down opinions they don’t like is NOT a refutation of your claim that the Left would not, does not do such things?
Whatever you say, princess. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Assuming I’m the princess here — yes, that’s exactly what I mean Meathead. Everyone makes buying decisions (inlcluding tv, radio, and print media containing ads) based on personal choice. That is the free market at work. The government should stay out of it, but I don’t care if individuals or groups get involved in trying to influence others. Heck, every advertisement is trying to influence me, lobbyists try to influence politicians, and corporations can contribute to political causes and candidates. I personally don’t do it because I think proselytizing is tacky – but tacky doesn’t equal unlawful or unethical.
Or maybe tgt was the princess here. Either way, I stand by my comment.
Ignoring the fact that organized efforts to attack advertisers for programs you don’t agree with in an effort to cause them to stop advertising and thus cost people money so shows get shut down is, by definition, an effort to silence people you don’t agree with, your argument loses based on the fact that – and I really am not shocked I have to say this again, this is you we’re talking about here – many very, very prominent and influential people on the Left have called for either the actual silencing of certain media figures or the reinstatement of the fairness doctrine, which would largely do exactly that.
Seriously, Beth, how the hell is it that there isn’t someone behind you saying “inhale… exhale… inhale… exhale…” all day and night, every day and night?
AM,
Ignoring the fact that organized efforts to attack advertisers for programs you don’t agree with in an effort to cause them to stop advertising and thus cost people money so shows get shut down is, by definition, an effort to silence people you don’t agree with
What does this have to do with the right of free speech? Are you intentionally moving the goalposts, or do you still not understand the point I’ve been hammering on?
AM,
The fairness doctrine covers topics, not speech on those topics. It’s not a viable tool for shutting down speech.
Given the events that you describe here, how can your previous post be correct?
To expect students to respect the authority of public schools today is like expecting Jews to respect the authority of Adolf Hitler in 1938.
” Martin Bashir’s claim yesterday that “IRS” is the new “nigger” was a particularly odious example of that. ”
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Oh my God.
Oops…Sorry if you were lucky enough to miss that…
Bashir must have meant that in the public consciousness (that is, of the public with all the wrong thoughts), the n-word label has been applied to the IRS after being hijacked from the public with all the correct thoughts, who have been considering “tea partiers” the persons most worthy of the label.
No, he was very clear what he meant: the only reason the IRS scandal was being pursued by Congress was to “get the black President.” This is MSNBC. Baskir makes Sean Hannity look like Lowell Thomas.
Oh. I wasn’t even connecting Bashir’s use of the n-word with Obama, just with a new group(IRS)-vilification-by-association use of the word, compared with earlier “niggerizing” of the TEA party people by their enemies.
Ironically, Toure made a claim not too long ago along the lines of how the right was attempting such a feat with Obama…
Jack, once again I agree with you on many levels, but your insistence on blaming the “left” for this is just plain wrong. And please excuse any typos – this is voice recognition software.
As we discussed before in previous posts, the ‘the left’ and ‘the right’ are misnomers. Because this is not a linear problem. TheStructureofThought® behind politics, and the way they are expressed and taught, should be in three dimensional format… It is not just a simple linear two dimensional “which side of the page you’re on” scenario.
For us to evolve Forward, towards the Positive ThoughtStructure® , this needs to be brought to our collective attention and Implemented into the way we think about, in all actuality, everything.
Think about it This way: Instead of imagining a page where you’ve got “leftist ideas” on the left-hand side of the page and “rightest” ideas on the right-hand side of the page, imagine a globe or sphere where all the traits are expressed as points on the surface of the sphere.
Like any traveler on the globe, if you walk in a straight line far enough “to the right” per se, you’ll eventually come back around the other side. This is what is happening in politics today, again, on many levels. So called “progressives” agree with many of the aspects of the way the most extremist “tea partier” would think… That’s because they’ve they’ve walked so far away from each other on the surface of the sphere that they met around on the other side.
The source for all this aggravation and indoctrination ‘1984’ culture is the patriot act, period.
Talk about indoctrination – being felt up by the TSA and herded like cattle to go through inspections before we all get on flights which are needless and ineffective – All of these steps are conditioning, and the erosion of our rights and personal liberties. We have been turned into a docile, Hypnotized society – And this poor bus driver is a victim of that mindset, If he was truly just mentioning that to the principal in passing…
If he was being a tattletale and working In a Gestapo type Manner, however, that is the slippery slope that is been laid out before all of us, Left or Right. Remember, the patriot act is a 1200 to 1400 page document… It was supposedly written and submitted within a month of 9/11 happening.
You can’t tell me it wasn’t already written and ready to be jammed it down our throats at the first opportunity… And it’s as neocon – “right wing manufactured Negative ThoughtStructure® as anything, and nothing to do with the so-called “left”.
I have a piece of art that I have produced that is devoted to this topic. It’s entitled ‘Two Dimensional Politics Extruded into Four Dimensional StructureofThought®.
And yes, I have copyrighted with the national trademark registry the phrase ‘theStructureofThought®.’ If you’re got it, flaunt it..! It’s a digital piece – so if you’d like a copy, let me know and I’ll email it to you.
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So if I’m reading this correctly, the ‘left’s’ vile tactics are vile because they are behaving so far left, they are actually indistinguishable from the villainous right. But the TRUE left is noble and pure, and should be sought after, because after all, the only alternative is the villainous right. Thus, the administration’s vile behavior is only proof of how vile the right is, and they really should try to be more left…
Slick.
The mainstream left still thinks of statements like this a cuckoo. I really hope they don’t succumb.
[Big yawn] (Well, I have been getting a little more sleep lately.) Jack. Jack, Jack, Jack! Let us not miss the teaching moment in this Maryland case of the uncivil 11-year-old. The real lesson there, is that even 11-year-olds must respect Reactionary Governance.
Reactionary Governance: It’s what the prevailing powers in America today insist must be the American Way forever. It is the conservatism, inherent to progressivism and liberalism, which progressives and liberals deny they trust, possess, endorse, practice, and promote. The only rational faith is the faith that governance must be reactionary. Otherwise, without it, progress won’t be sustained, let alone made possible, and the ends – or end, that is, Reactionary Governance, which justifies any means necessary – cannot be established and sustained. People cannot be trusted to self-govern; therefore authority over people must be centralized, and nonconformity as specified by persons in authority must be deliberately, disproportionally, and severely corrected.
(Waxing tongue-in-cheek from here…I guess I need another nap…)
We’ve come a long way. Let us not abandon now our faith in Reactionary Governance.
I used to be what I thought was a real nice, progressive hybrid of conservatism and liberalism. Was I ever so wrong! I failed to see the error of my ways – I was so inadequate and inferior. But, the federal government, the media, and the education establishment saved me, rescued me from that pit, that living hell of confusion and despair, and empowered me – well, empowered me to see the light, namely, that the only way I can experience the thrill and benefit of power is by wholehearted participation in Reactionary Governance.* It’s all the basis we have for hope. It’s all the reason we have to hope for change. It’s our only hope to make the change we want, to last. Finally, it’s our only hope for making and sustaining any future changes we may want.
Jack, you are thus duly admonished: Blog on, but remember who you owe your allegiance to (whether you want to “pledge” it or not). And shut up about that uncivil Maryland 11-year-old – unless you’re going to admit how wrong you have been. Don’t let the self-serving, pessimistic predictions of the so-called conservatives – those poor, inferior, delusional believers in anachronistic, discredited notions of self-governance – beguile you; you are right to ignore their tinfoil-hatted paranoia. There’s nothing to it, nothing at all, nothing to look at there, so just move along. There are more important things to do, and right away. Move on, now, so that all those good people doing their government jobs (with guns) can make sure that all the people who should not have guns get their guns taken away, and so that all those educators can make sure that young minds are not corrupted with thinking about guns. People can have the right to think about and talk about guns after they prove themselves trustworthy to do so – and only then, maybe a few of those people can actually talk about guns, and have guns, if they have government jobs. Trust the government – it’s there to help you.
*UPDATE: I am not sure, but it sure seems like there might be some connection here with concepts of Positive ThoughtStructure®.
LOL Exactly !! Thank you for “getting it”… so glad you did.
Are you sure someone else didn’t already theorize your 3-dimensional politics?
(a website I discovered in 1998ish….)
This is great – I’ve saved the link, thanks tex. I don’t claim to be the first – thru my own research, I am drawing my own conclusions here and thinking for myself. I’m a big proponent of 3D thought – or “thinking like a vegan” via the movie “Contact”, which, I believe, is in and of itself, is the contact. We are the music makers – we, are the dreamers of the dream.
If you shoot me your email address, I’ll send you that PDF I offered Jack a few replies back. blakeArt@gmail.com. I have tons of crazy shit going on – if you’re interested, I’d love to strike up a correspondence. thanks again!
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OK, before I complete my judgement, I have to have an answer to a very simple question…
What is your opinion of “timecube”?
1) Conspiracy theorist, Me? Never happen. And how do you know that car “just runs on Hydrogen?” you got facts to back that up, or is that a Herman Cait statement? Looked like it ran on water and had plenty of get up n go to me from that old as crap video.
2) As of this moment, I have no idea what “Timecube” is or what it means – I have never even heard of it. I will google it and let the NSA know I did a search for it.
3) DUDE – what do I have to worry about by being a “Conspiriacy Theorist” – and what exactly do you mean by that statement? Maybe… because of the present government overreach perhaps? You even making the observation that “I need to be careful…” in my comment above (I couldn’t respond directly to your comment, there was no “reply” under it.)
means that you are living in fear of some sort. I am not. Reality is a pretty strange state of being… believe me.
1a) You are exhibit A of a generally left wing conspiracy theorist.
1b) I’m not sure the fraud for that one specifically, but the general fraud was done two ways: (1) a mechanism to convert the water to hydrogen that had a second power source, or (2) just a second power source. Here’s wikipedia’s take down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-fuelled_car. You can follow references if you want…or just be satisfied that it defies multiple laws of physics.
2) Heh.
3) He actually said “You should watch out for that.” It looks like a polite way to alert you that your writing sounds insane, and you won’t be taken seriously if you sound insane.
” The intimidation of the state was brought to bear against the innocent family of the boy, since he dared to express delusions of courage, heroism and proactive conduct in the ongoing battle for good and right, proving, in this burgeoning Maryland Amerika, that he had not been properly inculcated with the state-approved values of pacifism, surrender to state power, and obedience to the authority of the almighty Left. “
That line, I’d say is half of what is wrong with the gun debate. A general attack on the self-reliance of individuals, a general degradation of the belief that people can be good and achieve good and aggressively advance the cause of good independent of authoritarian approval and direction.
Erode the notions of individualism, erode the assertiveness and self-starting attitudes that made America great by vilifying people who still believe in those virtues. Slowly cow people into a belief that there is something wrong with them if they have those attitudes, instill those anti-self ideas early on and the only recourse a person has is to believe in the government’s guidance over all things.
I have seen few more succinct and precise lines describe the social ill that being spread amongst the populace than that one.