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The left’s “Long March Through the Institutions” began in the 1960s and has been wildly successful. Leftists took over the government bureaucracy, the establishment media, the entertainment industry, and above all, the educational system. A recent survey demonstrated one of the results of this.
According to a Wednesday report in the UK’s Daily Mail, the educational system in the United States has now deteriorated to the point that “one in five young Americans has a positive view of 9/11 mastermind and Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden.” This news comes “according to disturbing results of a DailyMail.com poll.” Well, yes, it is disturbing, but no one who has been paying attention can say that it is unexpected.
“The Long March Through the Institutions” was a conscious leftist effort to emulate the success of Mao Zedong in China, but without resorting to the force of arms. Mao began his Long March in 1934 in order to evade the nationalist forces that were endeavoring to end the Communist threat in China once and for all. The term “Long March,” however, came to be associated with his slow, steady, patient rise to power, culminating in the Communist takeover of mainland China in 1949.
In America over the last half-century and more, the Long March Through the Institutions was the same kind of slow, steady takeover. Communists, leftists, and their allies gradually gained control of America’s colleges and universities, its primary and secondary educational systems, its popular culture, and above all, its ever-growing federal bureaucracy. The anti-establishment rebels (that is, the smelly hippies) of the 1960s have become the establishment all over the world and are working hard now to consolidate their power and crush all dissent. Remember those old photos of a longhaired, bearded young Bill Clinton and Hillary in John Lennon glasses, looking like love children?
What those love children and their allies have accomplished is clear from the Daily Mail’s survey: “Three in 10 Gen Z voters believe the views of the anti-Semitic terrorist leader who slaughtered thousands of innocent people were a ‘force for good.’” What’s more, “another DailyMail.com poll in October found one in 10 voters under the age of 30 had a positive view of Hamas, despite the group’s murderous attack on Israel that killed more than 1,300 men, women and children.” This explains the recent Osama bin Laden craze on TikTok. Hordes of witless millennials suddenly discovered the terror titan’s 2002 letter to America and professed to find wisdom in its whiny grievance-mongering and Jew-hatred.
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SKA says
Remember, though, this was a poll conducted in the UK where there is a growing Muslim minority. The poll seems to have made no effort to take note of the ethnic or religious composition of its samples.
Mike says
After Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. special forces at a large hideout house in Abbottsbad, Pakistan, Pat Condell said, “Instead of burying him at sea, they should have taken the son of a bitch to New York City, pickled him in alcohol and planted him on top of the Ground Zero mosque with a pork chop in his mouth and a firefighter’s hatchet up his ass, but facing Mecca of course, because we wouldn’t want to be…..disrespectful!” Wow….
FYI says
I’d rather be in a foxhole with an atheist than a muslim..especially if they like satire /parody.
The muslims have a habit of going allahuakbar and exploding and they are not into critical thinking or music or Jokes {“the awesome way of the infidels”}
Thank God i’m an infidel said the atheist.
Mike says
British comedian/documentary-maker Keith Allen: “Thank God I’m an atheist!”
Waldorf says
@Mike:
I love Pat Condell’s rants, but take a look at this link, especially the way this man was killed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Antonio_Bragadin : flayed alive by the mohamedans.
We wouldn’t want to be lowering us to the standards of the mohamedans, would we now?
So it’s a fun fantasy, but should remain just that.
By the way, Admiral Nelson’s body was pickled in brandy: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-scandalous-decision-to-pickle-admiral-horatio-nelson-in-brandy
I wonder, did anyone drink the brandy afterwards?
Statler says
LOL
patriotliz says
Long march of the (Leftist) Communists through the Western institutions to take over and destroy Judeo-Christian Western Civilization. Commies have also persecuted Jews although there are many Commies who are of Jewish ethnic heritage. Western Commie Globalists are now aligned with anti-Semitic Islam’s long demographic jihadi march through Western countries and their institutions to destroy it and establish a caliphate.
Waldorf says
Islam’s long demographic jihadi march: don’t they call that hijra? I know it refers to mohamed’s flight from Mecca to Medina, but somehow I also understand that it refers to demographic expansion of mohamedanism such as we’re presently experiencing.
Elizabeth says
Disgusting, alarming and deeply angering. WHO were the officials who selected enemies of democracy to indoctrinate – at OUR expense, our vulnerable children. A pox on them.
Hoi Polloi says
Homeschool and use all that time and energy to teach math and science.
Mike says
Or, at least teach some proper Social Studies and History, and recognize that, while great people such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt were certainly flawed (even by the standards of their respective eras), they weren’t the racist, oppressive tyrants that many modern Social Justice Warriors make them out to be, and they (those historical figures) did an immense amount of good overall, that more than compensated for their failings.
Hoi Polloi says
Some time spent countering their message is fine, but truthfully, math and science instruction are now so abysmal that even for kids in a better program, parents really should focus on those. Without having seen this deficit firsthand, I’m not sure it’s comprehensible. Kids can read history on their own, and families can discuss it in the car or at the dinner table, but building math skills as the basis for further scientific instruction and understanding is critical because they won’t even get the basics otherwise.
Kepha says
I make it a point to tell every government or history class that I teach that in the 20th century alone, governments worldwide took up the names of ethnic dignity, social justice, and scientific progress to kill, imprison, exile, or otherwise ruin more people than suffered for heresy, blasphemy, and witchcraft in the thirteen centuries between the conversion of Constantine and when associates of our own John Jay upheld the conviction of one John Ruggles for blasphemy.
As a former minion of the US State Department, it saddens me deeply to see my country now committed in international fora to promote organized perverion. I weep over ex-Pres Obama attacking the Islamocritical for “slandering” the “prophet” of Islam. Where is there an American leader standing for the right even of opponents to speak freely?
Yes, the disciples of Gramsci have made their triumphant march through the institutions, and the institutions are all the worse for it.
nicholas tesdorf says
The long march of the Left through the Educational Institutions certainly explains the poor level of education of the average American.
terry says
The long march of Satan upon History….