The Dumbing Down Of American Politics

It's disappointing to see some on line pundits dismissive of this item by Cliff Kincaid.

In his biography of Barack Obama, David Mendell writes about Obama's life as a "secret smoker" and how he "went to great lengths to conceal the habit." But what about Obama's secret political life? It turns out that Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist.

Sadly, the concepts of freedom versus statism that continue to wage an ideological struggle for supremacy in the world today apparently have to be encapsulated in an Ayn Rand novel, or a video game to be appreciated by some today.

Americans are becoming every bit as dumb, as they are culturally self-centered and obsessed. What passes for intelligence today simply doesn't measure up to classic thought.

Comments

[Christopher Davis]

"Americans are becoming every bit as dumb, as they are culturally self-centered and obsessed. What passes for intelligence today simply doesn't measure up to classic thought."

Pompous jerk.

[Dan Riehl]

And your point, moron?

[seekeronos]

Caught between Scylla and Charybdis, the nation is on Obama.

We either get the closet Marxist or the closet Islamist, or perhaps both: a monster who will push us headlong down the path to complete loss of liberty, whilst with the other hand he enables the jihadists to openly wage war on us at home.

[Dave]

Why do you suppose classic thought has been removed from university programs?

Marxism can only survive when the public doesn't recognize it in a larger context.

Freedom can only lose its appeal when the public feels safe enough to abandon it in favor of security.

And we know there's no such bargain, that security only comes through struggle and freedom.

There's a reason that classical western philosophical thought is replaced by 'african studies' and 'women's studies' and so forth. Classical western thought tends to invalidate marxism and collectivism of all kinds, when it is properly taught and applied.