Old Blue,

The Left now controls the national narrative. Have you ever checked out what is going on in college history courses? Or high school history courses? Literature and civics? I graduated from high school in 1973, did my three years in the Army afterwards, and then graduated from college in 1982. I can speak a bit about the Left, since I had once been a “fellow traveler.” I don’t recognize at all what is now the fare in our schools. It has changed that much.

My preference, for one bad choice among a lot of bad ones and worse ones, is that we get inoculated from socialism now rather than later. The only thing that makes me regret that choice is the thought of Iran getting nuclear weapons and using them when we have an appeasing socialist in the White House. Millions of people will die, and that is no laughing matter.

I don’t want to comment on other things said in this thread, regarding what could or what will happen. They are all hypotheticals, but my broad description of where we are now and how we got to this point is solidly factual. I know from firsthand experience in academia how deeply burrowed in the Gramscians are and how powerful and far-reaching their influence is. When I was a Jesuit seminarian I was one of those Leftist, academic intellectuals who was seeking an honest way to promote socialism. Obama’s significance is that he is a positioned person who has been on a path for over 25 years. I am including his time in college, since Frank Marshall Davis sent him forth with advice we will never be privy to. We can only surmise what that advice was, given his ideological loyalties.

I think we should be prepared for ANYTHING, but find ways to get around the stranglehold that the media and academia have on the presentation of the national narrative and current events. One of the vexing challenges I experience, and one which I am sure many on this board also experience, is the fact that many people in my life are not emotionally or intellectually disposed towards giving me a fair hearing about these issues of national crisis and how our future should find its way back to the principles contained in the Constitution. There is just so much BDS out there. The atmosphere is poisoned with it. Also, with a couple of relatives I have asserted that Barack Obama is a closet socialist/Marxist and was laughed at and dismissed – without any chance whatsoever of being allowed to bring forth the evidence of this.

The only thing I can conceive of that would bring us back from disaster would be the kind of broad disillusionment the nation experienced before the end of Jimmy Carter’s days in office.