Scandal of the Week

By Tammy Derouin

The scandals are endless.  It’s difficult to comprehend how a president and his administration, plagued with criminal behavior, are still in office.  How does the president, who swore to uphold the Constitution, continually get away with dismantling the law of our land?

I would have to say lack of education and information play a huge role.  Distractions are the answer for every unbelievable scandal of the week.  One scandal brought down Nixon.  Can you imagine the reaction if someone from the White House would have answered a question by saying, “It was so long ago?”  Back then the press actually looked for the story.  Who was behind the corruption and why?  Today the press anxiously waits to be instructed what to write.  Asking the wrong question could result in a scolding.

We have lost a generation.  I was fortunate to go to school when the Pledge of Allegiance was a privilege to recite, not a controversy.  I had teachers who were passionate about teaching.  The Constitution was studied, not hidden.  Political Science inspired debate.  We could disagree on issues without fear of retribution.  Those who felt change was necessary still understood there were proper procedures and rules to follow.  We understood the balance of power and that no one branch is all powerful. We were taught the importance of the Constitution.  

  

There are progressives in every age group.  However, it’s really disturbing when I see such disregard for the Constitution, as well as a sense of entitlement, in those who are old enough to remember when the United States was a great and powerful nation.  The United States was the super power.  We once defended our homeland.  But, that was when American citizens were free, not the target of the federal government. 

It’s easy to see the lack of American knowledge in the younger generations.  It’s also easy to see why.  The Pledge of Allegiance is controversial.  Wearing red, white and blue may offend non-citizens.  Expressing your belief and support for the Bill of Rights labels you as a radical and possibly dangerous.  We are told the Constitution is old, dusty, and full of negative liberties. 

The Department of Education has used their union foot soldiers to fulfill the agenda of the left.  Our children are being indoctrinated and conditioned to accept the word of the government.  I was taught to question authority.  That’s the pesky little problem the government wishes to eliminate.

The educational system is using its power to enslave all future generations.  Children are being taught to accept one political belief.  The president is being elevated to a position that Americans once considered intolerable.  When children sing songs of praise about their political leader and read books that depict the leader as an extraordinary individual while the enslaved press uses halo images to imply a god like aura, those in my generation and older should be seeing red flags.  That’s called Communism. 

When a government controls the news, education, medical care, food supply, transportation and every other aspect in your life, the government controls you.  No human leader is divine yet when every avenue of information is cut off and government propaganda is spoon fed to the population, the government will make you believe anything it wants you to believe.  Communist China is an excellent example.  The population has been conditioned to accept the word of the government.  When a population willingly gives up their independence for the false security promised by a government, the enslavement begins.  Once upon a time you were able to survive on your own.  Once you accept all the entitlements you won’t be able to do anything on your own.

I came across a video following the Memorial Day weekend.  If you are familiar with the O’Reilly Factor, you know Jesse Watters.  His holiday Q&A is mind-blowing.  Many were unable to answer basic questions about American history.  Here are some examples.  Who did we fight in the Revolutionary War?  What was the Civil War?  Who was the first president?  One named George Washington as the second president, after Lincoln.  The tough questions involved who bombed Pearl Harbor and who won the cold war?  When young Americans who have completed high school cannot answer basic questions about American History, we are lost as a free and independent nation.  It’s a frustrating video but worth checking out at Fox News.

The Department of Education has failed miserably.  Why do I think they don’t see it that way?  We have been set up for failure and we cheer for more.

“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne