Socialism is winning our elections because it already won our classrooms
Watch the reaction to the primaries in New York last week and you will hear a word that would have ended a campaign a generation ago: socialism. Candidates now say it with pride. Commentators warn, accurately, that the platform beneath it, abolishing borders, defunding the police, seizing private property, is something far more radical than the politics most of the public grew up with.
TL;DR
- Socialist ideas, once campaign-enders, are now embraced by candidates, with platforms including abolishing borders and defunding police.
- These radical ideas did not emerge suddenly but were cultivated and taught in American classrooms for twenty years, starting in universities.
- Many faith-based institutions and educational bodies became complacent, treating education as a transaction rather than a formative process.
- Higher education is divided into institutions that have surrendered to ideology, those that uphold objective truth, and a large group in the middle that quietly abandoned their founding principles.
- The misuse of 'separation of church and state' has been twisted to silence the moral voice of the church, rather than protect it from state control.
- Education should form people, pursue truth, and pass on knowledge, not indoctrinate or process individuals.
- Christian universities like Southeastern are choosing to be places of Christian life formation, standing with parents and grounding students in truth.
- The future of American education depends on leaders in the middle finding the courage to stand for truth, not on radical voices.
- Surrendering the classroom puts the future of the country at risk.