"Molders of Young Minds"

Fifty+ years ago, America was a country in a blender; we had riots in the streets, a welfare system that was just getting its’ feet wet, a war not everyone supported and the start of a drug culture that has blossomed into a societal disaster today.

In the 1940s, colleges were conservative places that regarded their duty as one of promoting a mindset of success and hard work; G.I.s came home and went to school after seeing the worst devastation and murder this planet had ever seen, and they wanted something better for their children’s future; especially in America, the “Land of Opportunity”.

In later years, some of those children went to another war, a war in a small country where poverty was the norm and ignorance of anything better was all they knew.

Some of those children came home and were treated like criminals by the nation that sent them to that faraway land, and they suffered for it, taking drugs and sometimes taking their own lives. Some of those children went on to school, so their children would have a father who could provide them with those things he saw the rest of the world didn’t have.

Some of those who stayed home and became part of the “Yippies and Hippies” also went to school and many of them became the teachers of the next generation. They read their “Little Red Book” and the “Communist Manifesto”, never seeing the real effects of that horrid philosophy; and they now mold the minds of those soldiers, marines, airmen and sailors’ children. The children of those “misguided minds” are the new generation of those “Yippies and Hippies” and are continuing to spread the disease of communism with abandon to the grandchildren of those who served this nation; spreading more poison!

Here are only two names, names which most of you probably don’t know, yet names that today are shaping the thoughts of your children and grandchildren:

The first name is William Penn, not the founder of Pennsylvania, but a professor at Michigan State University, who made this statement in 2013, before the Republican Convention took place. ”If you go to the Republican Convention in Florida, you’ll see all the Republicans with their dead skin cells washing them off; they are cheap and they don’t want to pay taxes because they have already raped this country and gotten everything out of it they possibly could!”

A similar rant took place just a few days ago by adjunct professor, Brent Terry of Eastern Connecticut State University, which raised such a stink, he was forced to make a public apology saying, “During my creative writing class yesterday, I allowed my political opinions (called Republicans racists) to color the discussion, I regret the language I used and I apologize to any student in the room that was offended.” In reality, Professor Terry was confrontational with a student who was questioning his rhetoric and Terry attempted to belittle him in front of his classmates. He didn’t know his “political opinions” were being recorded for posterity to see. I wonder how many classes this type of behavior actually took place in without the benefit of a recorded record?

I agree with two party politics, a system America has enjoyed over these many generations; yet I am disturbed that our system of “higher education” has become a “breeding ground” for miscreants who want to inflict their “personal political opinions” on young minds without the benefit of alternative beliefs being available.

I live in a college town, and I have overheard many of our young people spouting theories which I know are just regurgitated lectures from their “teachers”, laced with political venom and vitriol and with no relevance to actual fact.

I have great concern that we are allowing our colleges and universities to become “soap boxes” for the worst type of propaganda from anti-American malcontents.

This is what happens when those “Yippies and Hippies” get into a position of influence; and I don’t know if America can recover from this generation of poisoners; these “molders of young minds”!!!