The Great American Dumb-Down Derby

The Democrats’ Master Plan. Muted Minds, Borderless Brains, And Bookless  Classrooms Because Who Needs Facts When You Have Feelings.

Although the quip “Dumbing-Down” is often used in jest as a snarky pejorative to illicit a laugh or two at the expense of some poor dimwits cranial vacancy, the sad reality is that it illustrates America’s current, diminished, and quite frankly, subpar educational standards where our schools, under the watchful eye of Democrats have become little more than feel-good indoctrination camps. All courtesy, of course, of virtue-signaling Progressive professors peddling Left-wing lullabies, prioritizing pronouns over principles, grievances over grammar, and LGBTQIA2S++etc.etc., batshit crazy gender studies with Drag Queen Story Hour electives over reality and the xx xy facts of biology, and the ABCs of actual arithmetic

American learning institutions—whether from the classrooms of crayon-clutching kindergarteners to the college campuses of diploma-dazed undergrads—once the world’s scholastic centers for academic excellence, built to foster intellectual rigor, trigger critical thinking skills, debate, and spark independent thought, have devolved into first-rate Left-wing echo chambers. Effectively becoming bargain bins of mediocrity, conveyor belts, if you will, churning out assembly lines of groupthink, compliant cogs with third-rate degrees who think-less and question-nothing, trading curiosity for conformity one seminar at a time. 

The truth is, it’s not a joke anymore; it's quite literally a quiet crisis that is threatening the viability of our Republic.

The fabric of our once-formidable Nation—this shining city on a hill, a beacon of hope, brimming with optimism, with promise, boundless potential, ingenuity, and endless possibilities has been—under Progressive policies and leadership, or moreover, lack thereof—fraying at the seams like a cheap polyester tie at a Democrat fundraiser. Unraveling thread by thread, leaving us teetering on the brink of losing it all: our identity, the heart and soul of our Nation—a Nation of doers, not defeatists.

And why?

Well, because of a biblical-level outbreak of willful stupidity, that's why. 

A raging, self-inflicted and self-sabotaging epidemic of ignorance, of cluelessness; a symphony of political illiteracy where not only civic amnesia treats the Constitution like a forgotten gym membership—paid for in full, but gathering dust in a drawer while we binge-watch bad decisions, but that is also so profound, it rivals AOC’s economics degree where economic delusions are so catastrophic they dwarf the green new scam's promise of trillion-dollar windmills churning out jobs for imaginary elves.

Needless to say, all masterminded by the Marxists on the Left-side of the political divide. You know, the blue-brain-trust of Socialists who:

1)— Peddled “Build Back Better” as code for “Borrow till Broke.”

2)— Believe that "Equity" means handing out participation trophies whilst divvying up equal shares of the scraps after they have feasted on our children’s futures.

And who also: 

3)— Believe that “Progress” is measured in hashtags of performative outrage, virtue-signaling, and inflating the national debt with rainbow-colored fairy dust. Of course, whilst lecturing us about micro-aggressions, whilst the bartender-turned-breadline architect and her Progressive pals in the Democrat Party endeavor to push our real-world macro, and/or for that matter, our micro-economy nosediving off a cliff, spiraling into a soul-crushing, Soviet-like dystopian hellhole where the only thing rationed faster than breadcrumbs and healthcare is common sense.

Suffice it to say, if ignorance is bliss, the Left must be floating on a cloud of taxpayer-funded unicorn farts… but I digress.

In any event, for my distinguished badge-wearing alumni fellows of the University of “Captain Obvious”—where our motto is "Duh, ya think!"—It is crystal-freaking-clear that Democrats are auditioning Americans for roles in “The Woking Dead—Welfare Edition." A riveting new series starring a Nation full of dependent, catatonic idiots but with more pronouns, served up with a side of homicidal transgender lunatics, garnished with smug sanctimony, denial, and the evisceration of ingenuity and enterprise, fueled, of course, with a piping hot chaser of gaslighting and gobbledegook grievances, topped with Kamala's cackling wisdom, sleepy Joe's sundowning soliloquies about "Freedom" whilst censoring and locking up Republicans, and lest we forget, Presidential hopeful, Newsom's wildfire policies of “Just pray for rain.”

The fact is, Nations rise and fall, not because of barbarians or asteroids, but because of, or under, the crushing weight of the un- or ill-educated. 

History has shown and proven time and time again that Nations go belly-up and under because of the ill-informed, the misinformed, the ignorant, the smug, sophomoric simpletons, the apathetic, entitled couch potatoes, and those spellbound in a hallucinogenic haze of idealism run amok.

You know, Cultural Marxist idealism that has been sold to our youth courtesy of the Donkey Dynasty, whose lobotomized logic of dopamine-driven drivel has replaced facts with feelings as they virtue signal and play Social Justice Warrior word salad games. Tossing, turning, and chopping feel-good buzzwords, like “Inclusivity,” “Tolerance,” "Unity,' and “Diversity,” into manipulative unspoken synonyms for “Divide and conquer,” and “Gag and Censor.”

From his Florentine Histories, in the preface of Book II, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote: “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”

To paraphrase American philosopher George Santayan: The fact is—Those who don’t read don’t know their history, and those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat the past…  

Knowledge is power. It is a potent, formidable force because it empowers those of us with functioning brains to exercise our gray matter, to use our noggins as it were, to call bullshit on the blue-brigade’s feelings over facts, fantasies, and fairy tales. 

Which is precisely why an informed populace—even one armed with just the bare-bones basics of civics, the Constitution, and our Republic's inception, it’s hard-fought battle for freedom—poses not merely a headache, but pure poison, a raging inferno that scorches the Democrats' pie-in-the-sky realm that is built on whitewashed history, contrived Constitutional contortions, and a tangled web of twisted lies and deceitful delusions. 

You see, knowledge—delving into our Republic’s unvarnished history books, not only exposes the Democrat Party’s putrid past, their inherently hateful and racist nature. Revealing their legacy of white supremacy rooted in slavery, their segregationist, Jim Crow history, and their KKK terrorist organization—(founded in 1865 by six Confederate Democrats, including Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Party's first Grand Wizard. All of whom who terrorized Black Republicans in order to restore White Democrat rule in the South during Reconstruction)—and thereby shredding their facade as the “Party of Compassion,” but it also undermines the Party’s structural integrity, its carefully constructed edifice of power, that sustains and enables it to thrive and exert influence and control over people.

One dose of daylight, and their whole "For the people" Ponzi scheme comes crashing down, crumbling like a house of cards around them. 

Ergo, the last thing the Left wants is an informed public—because, you know, who needs pesky facts when you've got feelings on speed dial, right? 

So, naturally, as a matter of course and Progressive propaganda, Democrats have spent decades being the busy bees of brainwashing. Buzzing about from chalkboards to the ballot box, controlling the messaging and scripting the narrative, in the long-running series, "Sesame Street meets the ABCs of Cultural Marxism and Soviet propaganda.”

The undeniable fact of the matter is, Democrats have mastered the art of manipulating minds, playing on people’s emotions, tugging on heartstrings, and exploiting the public’s vulnerabilities, particularly our youth, the most malleable amongst us, with their Oscar-winning sob stories and fear-mongering fairy tales under their “We care” cape as self-anointed Social Justice Warrior Superheroes—because, you know, nothing says "Empathy" like engineering emotionally charged fictional fables with the occasional bought-and-paid-for “Mostly-Peaceful” protest, otherwise referred to as blazing "Riots," thrown in for special effects. 

The unfortunate reality is, rather than lifting people up by prioritizing and promoting policies that actually tackle life's gritty gauntlet of problems and provide real, pragmatic, logical solutions to life’s challenges, Progressive Democrats espouse and peddle pie-in-the-sky utopian notions, illogical rationalism, fantasies, and programs that support and encourage “Big Government Dependency.”

When you think about it, it's a genius grift, really: cradle-to-grave coddling that corrals the masses, trapping them in a vicious cycle of Government handouts and permanent poverty, thereby ensuring the Progressives' edifice of control and hence “Permanent Absolute Power.”

Sure, the self-styled "Social Justice Warrior” squires on the Left side of the widening political divide will speak a good game, profusely swearing and professing in a digital flood of Kumbaya videos, to be fighting for not only the betterment and benefit of the American people writ large, but also to lift the forgotten up and out of poverty like Robin Hood, except, of course, with hashtags, not arrows.

However, in the cold, hard, unfiltered light of reality, what Democrats are, in point of fact, doing is cosplaying, with a hidden agenda and bad intentions. 

As they say, “Talk is cheap.” Or, in this case, expensive—and possibly even deadly. 

You see, the naked truth peeking out from beneath the Democrats' Progressive petticoats is that they are consolidating and fortifying their edifice of power. They are facilitating, promoting, and protecting their personal and political priorities, interests, and allies—slinking through the back door, the servants' entrance with that timeless tango of "Funding for favors or favors for funding,” whilst also sashaying through the front door, via the legislative process where every bill is a porked-up banquet for their darling donors. 

Of course, all whilst the marginalized and the vulnerable, the people Democrats purport to care about, are fed crumbs. You know, just enough to keep them sufficiently poor so that they qualify for continual unremitting Government welfare benefits and subsidies that keep them down, dependent, and chained to the Democrat Party. 

Suffice it to say, policies that not only neuter and eliminate one’s ability to pull oneself up by the bootstraps, to break out of the cycle of dependent poverty, but legislation that also guarantees both the preservation of the permanent, Deep State bureaucracy and lifetime tenure for their unelected bureaucratic grifters and partners in political crime—because, you know, nothing screams equity like ironclad job security for the pencil-pushers plotting their serfs impoverished future from their air-conditioned ivory towers…

But I digress. 

Haven’t you heard? It’s all for the greater good.

You know, Absolute Power wrapped in a rainbow ribbon, served with a side of One-Party Centralized Administrative Nanny State smothering, where Big Brother doesn't just watch, but wipes your sniffer, picks your pockets, and pats himself on the back for being compassionate.

Democrats are pathological liars and galactic grifters with a flair for the fantastical. They perpetually promise their proletariat base—and now, their new voter base, Illegal Aliens—the earth, moon, and stars, occasionally throwing in a complimentary asteroid belt to sweeten the deal, vowing to swaddle their obedient serfs in Socialist freebies, via their legislative laundry list of lavish lunacy, if they elect them.

It's the ultimate come-hither con: "Vote for us, and we'll solve all your problems and vanquish your suffering with our magic wand of wizardry and wealth redistribution!”

Unfortunately, too many Americans have fallen for the lie—they have chomped down on the Democrats' chum and are now hypnotized in a tryptophan trance, a haze of blue-state baloney, after binging on a smorgasbord of gourmet delusions and daydreams. 

And why?

Well, as I discussed earlier, we are living in an increasingly “Dumbed-Down” society, marinating in a lobotomized brain-stew of the uninformed and misinformed because as I also mentioned earlier Progressive politicians and their pals, you know, those blue-blooded Bolshevik barons and their propagandist proxies, have been allowed to turn our schools into Left-wing, Cultural Marxist indoctrination camps, churning out barely bookish bumpkins who are about as literate and as critically minded as a rock. 

The unfortunate reality is that a whopping 19% of high school graduates cannot read, 14% of adults cannot read, while 21% of adults are fumbling through life at a sub-fifth-grade reading level. 

Yet oddly enough, in the face of these alarming statistics, Democrats—ever the optimistic arsonists—keep bankrolling and shoveling our taxpayer dollars into the bonfire pit of Left-wing teachers’ union tantrums, who are demanding we double down on their crown jewel, on Obama’s Common Core—that math-mangling, word-wrestling wonder that they have known since day one was about as effective as teaching quantum physics to goldfish—because, you know, nothing fixes a literacy apocalypse like funding the very flamethrower that torched it.

As Thomas Sowell put it: “How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?”

We have permitted Democrats to replace our liberty and freedoms with dependence through ignorance, where “Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession; their ignorance.” 

Too many voters now rely on others to do their thinking for them, and the results speak for themselves... A Dumbed-Down society. 

If Americans continue to allow Progressives to puppeteer their thoughts, ideas, and opinions, they will, in short order, be gift-wrapping our self-determining power—our sovereignty, our Constitutional Republic—that is “Of the People, By the People, and For the People,” and shipping it off to them, to Democrats, express delivery to Tyrannyville, to a dictatorship that is “Of the Government, By the Government, and For the Government.” 

Educate yourself… learn to read and read to learn. READ! READ! READ… Knowledge is Power. The more you know! 

Linda Genzel Editor @WECU News

Opinion.