From a Time When Communism Was Taught Right
American Thinker,
by
Kent D. Worley
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
11/25/2022 5:31:07 PM
When I was a senior in high school, I was required to take and pass a government class as a condition to graduate. My teacher was a retired Illinois state trooper. Naturally, my teacher had certain opinions about the criminal justice system and the courts. My teacher was not a big fan of the Miranda decision. His issue was not against informing a suspect about his rights; it was more about how the landmark decision was used to invalidate many good arrests on picayune issues. He complained that career criminals, especially murderers, would have their charges dropped by weak judges for matters not related to the arrest.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 11/25/2022 7:23:53 PM (No. 1342240)
Yes. In tge sixties Florida required all HS seniors take "Americanism vs. Communism". We read Animal Farm and studied the Soviet Union.
And I spent a decade in the 2000s doing business in the former Soviet states, saw what a mess they were struggling to get past.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/25/2022 9:42:58 PM (No. 1342300)
I commented about this a few days ago when I posted another AM article. Back in Illinois and in eighth grade, our school principal, Mr. Kroll, taught a one-day long class about communism and propaganda. He was a WWII vet with one leg missing. He looked at us straight in the eye (every one of us, I might add) and warned us strongly to not get complacent a that there would be another battle for America's soul someday in the future and that communism would try to infect America for good and in our lifetimes. He urged us to stand up and confront it and not be blinded by the msm's propaganda wars.
In our high school government class, Mr. Johnson, the school principal and another WWII vet, warned us of exactly the same thing. They both called it and here we are with the face of communism right in front of us even though we took their instructions seriously. So why are we here.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 11/25/2022 9:56:38 PM (No. 1342306)
Both of my parents talked with us about communism, theory and practice. My first ever social studies paper was on the "collective farms" in the USSR. We read the dystopian novels. We learned about the horrors of totalitarianism at a young age. We also gained an "understanding" of WWII as our Dads and relatives fought in it and told us as much as our young minds could grasp.
We find ourselves in an era of phantasms, unreality, fairy tales, lies and lies on top of lies, and the, yes, Orwellian nightmares stemming from 2+2=5.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MDConservative 11/25/2022 11:08:40 PM (No. 1342332)
In eighth grade I got in deep trouble with the school authorities when I said in class that I would like to visit the Soviet Union. I was not "promoting" communism or dictatorship, but I wanted to see for myself a society that functioned under such a system. How could it?
Some years later I got my "wish", and traveled not only in the Soviet Union, but also East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
The living standards were not up to American standards. Food was often second rate with stores offering a narrow range of meat and produce, creating a repetitive menu and diet. Leftovers were re-cycled through meals from entrees to soup.
The "secret" police were hardly secret. They wanted you to know you were being watched, sometimes even clumsily followed in the streets. You might find them in your room when you returned. Nothing personal or sinister, just business. Entry into each country was the first step into this milieu, designed to send a clear message.
As awful as communism is and totalitarian governments are, they have widespread support, particularly among the "middle class" that populates the bureaucracy and business willing to "spread it around", as well as among the working class that is dependent on what they can get to live. Americans cannot understand that, for example, the Soviets offered Russians hope and progress after the Czars. Every revolution offers hope. Few deliver on the dream.
Our revolution was founded on mistrust of government, which is reflected throughout its history and in its structure of divided powers. Sadly, many if not most Americans trust government, desire that it it does the right thing for the "common good." That's not the American ethic of the founding. It's where we are today. We're all socialists now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 11/26/2022 7:13:25 AM (No. 1342427)
Back in the 50’s, The Red Menace was universally looked as an evil joke nobody took seriously compared to America. Now we’ve got a couple of generations worth of dummies who may be willing to give that crap another shot .....you know “It will work if we have the right people in charge of it”
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
franq 11/26/2022 9:06:40 AM (No. 1342518)
Too many people are naturally lazy and greedy. This is why communism fails.
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