Timothy Birdnow

Thomas Jefferson is arguably the father of universal education in America. He believed (correctly) that liberty could only exist with an informed, educated public. (So did most other Founders which is why they restricted the vote to landholders, who generally were more likely to be educated.)

Jefferson said it many times:

That is why John Dewey, who was a radical socialist, created public education in the first place; he wanted to take control of the educational system in America so he could brainwash the youths. He apparently had read his Jefferson but put Jefferson's plans to work in the service of darkness.

Yes, few understand the definition of socialism which is forced government ownership or control of the means of production. I once had an argument here on Facebook with a guy I grew up with (he was older than me, actually) who was a big labor union guy. He had absolutely no idea what socialism is. None. He was shocked when I provided the definition to him - he thought socialism and a big welfare state were the same thing. When I told him Sweden was not a socialist country he was absolutely flabbergasted; his union always told him it was. I pointed out that Sweden is actually more business friendly than the U.S. (which it was then) and he couldn't believe it.

That is what a public school education buys you.

That's why so many believe Fascism is "right wing" too; because they don't have a clue of what socialism is or how it applies. Fascism is socialism with a nationalistic character. Mussolini turned away from the Italian socialist PARTY because he believed people needed a spiritual component to their ideology and the Italian Socialists were pure materialists - more llike the Marxists. So he created a system whereby the People were God and the State was the Church. This is straight out of Rousseau, who was both father to fascism and grandfather to communism. Rousseau suggested deifying the People and making the State it's holy church, I might add.

Now many people believe "right wing" and "fascism" are one in the same when in fact they come from completely different intellectual roots. In fact, "nationalism" which is what fascism was called before Mussolini, was of great concern to the Conservatives of the 19th century; they knew it's poisonous roots. "Nationalism" has come to mean Patriotism but then it meant what today we call Fascism, or Naziism. It was worship of the People with the State as their holy church.

The fact is Fascism is socialist. Government owns or controls industries and determines who gets what and for how much. It is a doctrine of extreme regulation. It compels the individual to accept the constant intervention of government in their lives. Mussolini said "all within the state, nothing outside of the state, nothing against the state" meaning every aspect of life is to be governed by the community. The idea was they were going to build a "new man". This is qualitatively no different than what the Communists were trying to do, except that Communism sought to subsume the nations into the larger hegemony whereas Fascism sought to deify the country instead o the whole collective. In fact, the Communists had a slogan before Hitler attacked them "First Brown then Red" and they saw Fascism/Naziism as an intermediate stage between Capitalism and Communism, one that would eventually fade away as people took the final step.

But few know any of this, believing that socialism is merely a "fairer" distribution of wealth, helping the poor and whatnot. They think it is the message of Christ, which of course it's not; Jesus commanded YOU to be charitable, to be kind, to be loving, to help your neighbor NOT the state, which has to steal wealth from one person to give it to another. Freee will is lost completely in a socialist scheme.

The Left piggybacked on Christian thought. I would add God created poverty as one of the punishments to Man for the first sin and He could solve it any time He wishes. He doesn't need our help. Poverty is there to give us the opportunity to be charitable, to be more like Christ.

Another thing; corporatism is dangerously close to fascism, and no less a personage than G.K. Chesterton understood that. Chesterton once said "the difference between a Capitalist and a Socialist is a bigger paycheck" and by Capitalist he meant the crony capitalist we see in this day and age. I hate the term Capitalist precisely because it came from Karl Marx as a pejorative; it's free enterprise versus all the isms, which are all artificial. Free markets are natural, natural law in action. People naturally trade with one another. Isms require convoluted models and draconian regulatory schemes.

At any rate this ignorance is by design and it is a self-perpetuating ignorance (like the lie that a socialist told in a textbook he put out back in the 19th century that people thought the world was flat until Columbus - it was a lie but a whole generation grew up believing that and many still do.)

"my People are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6

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