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		<title>By: BagLady</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BagLady]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2013 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You mention American exceptionalism.  Although there are those who would have it mean &#039;superior&#039;,  I am unsure in your case.  Here is de Tocqueville&#039;s take on the subject.



&quot;The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may
 be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar 
one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial 
habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds
 from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of
 Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing 
into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been 
able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix 
the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, 
his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in 
drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone 
bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to 
heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the 
example of the American people&quot; 


Then you mention marriage being between man and woman only and the rights of the unborn child,  but then speak of the importance of small government.  Surely matters of morality should be left to the Church and governments should get on with providing the infrastructure which was why we invented them in the first place.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You mention American exceptionalism.  Although there are those who would have it mean &#8216;superior&#8217;,  I am unsure in your case.  Here is de Tocqueville&#8217;s take on the subject.</p>
<p>&#8220;The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may<br />
 be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar<br />
one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial<br />
habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds<br />
 from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of<br />
 Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing<br />
into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been<br />
able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix<br />
the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions,<br />
his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in<br />
drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone<br />
bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to<br />
heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the<br />
example of the American people&#8221; </p>
<p>Then you mention marriage being between man and woman only and the rights of the unborn child,  but then speak of the importance of small government.  Surely matters of morality should be left to the Church and governments should get on with providing the infrastructure which was why we invented them in the first place.</p>
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		<title>By: BagLady</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BagLady]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2013 08:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s as may be but I didn&#039;t mention &quot;spending&quot; I said 51% of &quot;revenue&quot; which is very different.  It shouldn&#039;t be but it is true, and true  of every country in the world according to the World Clock: http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock     

 Systems now seem to go against all laws of logic and I wonder if we didn&#039;t fall down a rabbit hole somewhere mid-20th century.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s as may be but I didn&#8217;t mention &#8220;spending&#8221; I said 51% of &#8220;revenue&#8221; which is very different.  It shouldn&#8217;t be but it is true, and true  of every country in the world according to the World Clock: <a href="http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock" rel="nofollow">http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock</a>     </p>
<p> Systems now seem to go against all laws of logic and I wonder if we didn&#8217;t fall down a rabbit hole somewhere mid-20th century.</p>
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		<title>By: BagLady</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BagLady]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except MF didn&#039;t feel the need to resort to rudeness in his argument.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Except MF didn&#8217;t feel the need to resort to rudeness in his argument.</p>
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		<title>By: Charlene</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlene]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 06:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Im making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great article. Thanks Dennis.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article. Thanks Dennis.</p>
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		<title>By: Smoking Hamster</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Smoking Hamster]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense spending doesn&#039;t even make up a quarter of total federal spending.

I know towns are collapsing. One small one is Detroit. That is what happens when you have one party left wing rule for 50 years.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/14/152671813/50-years-of-government-spending-in-1-graph]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Defense spending doesn&#8217;t even make up a quarter of total federal spending.</p>
<p>I know towns are collapsing. One small one is Detroit. That is what happens when you have one party left wing rule for 50 years.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/14/152671813/50-years-of-government-spending-in-1-graph" rel="nofollow">http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/14/152671813/50-years-of-government-spending-in-1-graph</a></p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s precisely the result of the government involved in the &quot;equitable distribution.&quot; Milton Friedman already explained - in a language so simple that even nitwits like you would understand if they only listened - that only market can achieve true equitable distribution void of any prejudice and bias. Angels don&#039;t work for the government. Crooks do.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s precisely the result of the government involved in the &#8220;equitable distribution.&#8221; Milton Friedman already explained &#8211; in a language so simple that even nitwits like you would understand if they only listened &#8211; that only market can achieve true equitable distribution void of any prejudice and bias. Angels don&#8217;t work for the government. Crooks do.</p>
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		<title>By: para_bellum</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[para_bellum]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice argument.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice argument.</p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently from the body of your posting here, you did not have access to good education, and, obviously your parents did not find the way to compensate for the lack thereof.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently from the body of your posting here, you did not have access to good education, and, obviously your parents did not find the way to compensate for the lack thereof.</p>
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		<title>By: S.L. Rachford's Ire</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[S.L. Rachford's Ire]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Anthony Napoleon wrote about this in &quot;The Progressive Virus&quot;. Your article is spot on sir. Thank you for a great read. Stay on top of the children.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Anthony Napoleon wrote about this in &#8220;The Progressive Virus&#8221;. Your article is spot on sir. Thank you for a great read. Stay on top of the children.</p>
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		<title>By: BagLady</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BagLady]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But the real thing to watch out for is the way leftists punish white children. 



Takes me back to my own schooling when I was in the minority.  At the time I put the teacher&#039;s animosity to me  down to white on white.  Later on I realized she  expected more from me simply because of the advantages I had over the locals,  and don&#039;t let&#039;s forget that teachers have targets to meet in exams and will push quite hard to achieve them.



However, I would agree with you about the dangers of left wing teachers.  They do tend to foist their own beliefs onto the children and this should be a definite no-no.  Religion and politics have no place in education before post-grad level.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But the real thing to watch out for is the way leftists punish white children. </p>
<p>Takes me back to my own schooling when I was in the minority.  At the time I put the teacher&#8217;s animosity to me  down to white on white.  Later on I realized she  expected more from me simply because of the advantages I had over the locals,  and don&#8217;t let&#8217;s forget that teachers have targets to meet in exams and will push quite hard to achieve them.</p>
<p>However, I would agree with you about the dangers of left wing teachers.  They do tend to foist their own beliefs onto the children and this should be a definite no-no.  Religion and politics have no place in education before post-grad level.</p>
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		<title>By: BagLady</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BagLady]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thank God you are not my dad.  To go through  life with no self-determination, with parents living vicariously through me, giving me no credit for any intelligence of my own and stifling my creativity would surely put me on a path to anarchy.


All you have to do to be a good parent is to provide a loving, secure environment, food and access to a good education.  



You overestimate the importance of parents.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thank God you are not my dad.  To go through  life with no self-determination, with parents living vicariously through me, giving me no credit for any intelligence of my own and stifling my creativity would surely put me on a path to anarchy.</p>
<p>All you have to do to be a good parent is to provide a loving, secure environment, food and access to a good education.  </p>
<p>You overestimate the importance of parents.</p>
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		<title>By: BagLady</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BagLady]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well said Jason.  The only problem is your country is on its ass under your version of capitalism.  

And as for equitable distribution,  1% of the population has 35% of the total net worth.  Warren Buffet has picked up a cool $45billion while the country goes to hell.  Whole towns are collapsing and the number of soup kitchens is increasing at an alarming rate.  It is not the rosy First World country you describe I suspect, but then you do turn over 51% of your total income to the Pentagon.  Way to go.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well said Jason.  The only problem is your country is on its ass under your version of capitalism.  </p>
<p>And as for equitable distribution,  1% of the population has 35% of the total net worth.  Warren Buffet has picked up a cool $45billion while the country goes to hell.  Whole towns are collapsing and the number of soup kitchens is increasing at an alarming rate.  It is not the rosy First World country you describe I suspect, but then you do turn over 51% of your total income to the Pentagon.  Way to go.</p>
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		<title>By: BagLady</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[BagLady]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American military strength is the greatest contributor to world peace and stability, 



That is the point I stopped reading this daft article.  Sorry]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>American military strength is the greatest contributor to world peace and stability, </p>
<p>That is the point I stopped reading this daft article.  Sorry</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Musser</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Musser]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would dare say that many conservatives may be conservative politically, but they are liberals at home in terms of training up/disciplining their children ...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would dare say that many conservatives may be conservative politically, but they are liberals at home in terms of training up/disciplining their children &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Sheik Yerbouti</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sheik Yerbouti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to worry about the leftist public school system &quot;indoctrinating&quot; my children and that I&#039;d have to spend a great deal of time deprogramming them.  But I don&#039;t anymore thanks to the leftists themselves.  Children aren&#039;t stupid and can easily see a double-standard.  They see teachers look the other way when minority kids act up in class but come down on the white kids like a hammer for the same infractions.   When they see a &quot;minority&quot; student elected to class president simply because all the &quot;minority&quot; votes went to the lone non-white candidate, they are not too stupid to figure out what&#039;s happening.
 
And when they get lessons about how horrible white people have been throughout history they don&#039;t instantly switch over to &quot;white guilt&quot; mode.  Plenty of them seek the truth (thanks to the information age).  
 
But the real truth here is that parents can&#039;t simply turn their children over to public schools and hope for the best.  THAT is begging for marginalization and possible failure.  But the real thing to watch out for is the way leftists punish white children.  They go after their grades first and foremost.  This is something they NEVER do to non-white students.  That alone should be a real eye opener.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I used to worry about the leftist public school system &#8220;indoctrinating&#8221; my children and that I&#8217;d have to spend a great deal of time deprogramming them.  But I don&#8217;t anymore thanks to the leftists themselves.  Children aren&#8217;t stupid and can easily see a double-standard.  They see teachers look the other way when minority kids act up in class but come down on the white kids like a hammer for the same infractions.   When they see a &#8220;minority&#8221; student elected to class president simply because all the &#8220;minority&#8221; votes went to the lone non-white candidate, they are not too stupid to figure out what&#8217;s happening.</p>
<p>And when they get lessons about how horrible white people have been throughout history they don&#8217;t instantly switch over to &#8220;white guilt&#8221; mode.  Plenty of them seek the truth (thanks to the information age).  </p>
<p>But the real truth here is that parents can&#8217;t simply turn their children over to public schools and hope for the best.  THAT is begging for marginalization and possible failure.  But the real thing to watch out for is the way leftists punish white children.  They go after their grades first and foremost.  This is something they NEVER do to non-white students.  That alone should be a real eye opener.</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is so true. I was born to conservative parents, and until I was 17 I was a hard left winger. The most important thing is to back up your opinions with facts, overwhelming facts. Children, especially teenagers aren&#039;t just going to take your opinions lightly, that&#039;s why I didnt listen to my parents, they never gave me facts, they just told me I was wrong. Anyone would resent that, and I did. It was only cold hard logic, and clear examples that showed me why capitalism and right wing thinking was best.

Show your children the failure of Communist Russia, show them how the Russians lived in poverty there. Show them how Socialist Europe failed (It&#039;ll happen by the time your children have grown up), show them what big government spending can do to a country and a continent. Show them the failure of mass immigration policies all throughout history. Tell them about the dangers of Islam, give factual examples (I.e. Islam and India, the worst slaughter in all of human history, 80 million dead). Show them real racism, the Jim Crow laws and other racist policies from around the globe, and tell them that what is racist now would have made MLK cringe. Show your kids the superiority of our system, how it has brought wealth and is indeed the most equal system of all at wealth distribution. It is not enough to tell them they are wrong, you have to tell them why.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is so true. I was born to conservative parents, and until I was 17 I was a hard left winger. The most important thing is to back up your opinions with facts, overwhelming facts. Children, especially teenagers aren&#8217;t just going to take your opinions lightly, that&#8217;s why I didnt listen to my parents, they never gave me facts, they just told me I was wrong. Anyone would resent that, and I did. It was only cold hard logic, and clear examples that showed me why capitalism and right wing thinking was best.</p>
<p>Show your children the failure of Communist Russia, show them how the Russians lived in poverty there. Show them how Socialist Europe failed (It&#8217;ll happen by the time your children have grown up), show them what big government spending can do to a country and a continent. Show them the failure of mass immigration policies all throughout history. Tell them about the dangers of Islam, give factual examples (I.e. Islam and India, the worst slaughter in all of human history, 80 million dead). Show them real racism, the Jim Crow laws and other racist policies from around the globe, and tell them that what is racist now would have made MLK cringe. Show your kids the superiority of our system, how it has brought wealth and is indeed the most equal system of all at wealth distribution. It is not enough to tell them they are wrong, you have to tell them why.</p>
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		<title>By: DownTurn</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DownTurn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They key thing is to admit to yourself that you have to indoctrinate your child yourself, and that if you refuse to, somebody else will, probably for the worse.


You have to realize that the moment you let the child &quot;form his own opinion&quot;, you&#039;ve already lost, because nobody forms their own opinion left alone in an ideological vacuum, everybody forms their opinions under influence and to various degrees everybody tries to conform to whatever environment he happens to live in.
Especially young people, lacking the life experience to make their own informed and firm decisions, tend to overestimate the value of the &quot;consensus&quot;, and their main motivation to do something becomes &quot;because everybody else is doing it too&quot;. They wear the same clothes, listen to the same music, the peer pressure dynamic becomes the main driver of basically everything they do.

I do not know the right way how to shield off your child from marxist influences in a time where the places of formal education have been seized and politicized by marxists by their &quot;long march through the institutions&quot;.

I guess parents will have to really ponder what is more important to them in the long term, either that their child gets a valuable formal education and degree but loses their values along the way, or that they keep the values but at the cost of a less valuable education and job.

We maybe already are at a point where these two goals have become mutually exclusive, so instead of trying to get your child keep their values through college, parents have to decide whether they want them going to college at all.

It all depends on the parent&#039;s priorities, on how highly they regard their own &quot;values&quot; and how much they want them to be passed to future generations.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They key thing is to admit to yourself that you have to indoctrinate your child yourself, and that if you refuse to, somebody else will, probably for the worse.</p>
<p>You have to realize that the moment you let the child &#8220;form his own opinion&#8221;, you&#8217;ve already lost, because nobody forms their own opinion left alone in an ideological vacuum, everybody forms their opinions under influence and to various degrees everybody tries to conform to whatever environment he happens to live in.<br />
Especially young people, lacking the life experience to make their own informed and firm decisions, tend to overestimate the value of the &#8220;consensus&#8221;, and their main motivation to do something becomes &#8220;because everybody else is doing it too&#8221;. They wear the same clothes, listen to the same music, the peer pressure dynamic becomes the main driver of basically everything they do.</p>
<p>I do not know the right way how to shield off your child from marxist influences in a time where the places of formal education have been seized and politicized by marxists by their &#8220;long march through the institutions&#8221;.</p>
<p>I guess parents will have to really ponder what is more important to them in the long term, either that their child gets a valuable formal education and degree but loses their values along the way, or that they keep the values but at the cost of a less valuable education and job.</p>
<p>We maybe already are at a point where these two goals have become mutually exclusive, so instead of trying to get your child keep their values through college, parents have to decide whether they want them going to college at all.</p>
<p>It all depends on the parent&#8217;s priorities, on how highly they regard their own &#8220;values&#8221; and how much they want them to be passed to future generations.</p>
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