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Tuesday, April 11th, 2023

US Fascism Is Spreading Under the Guise of “Patriotic Education”

Author:     Henry A. Giroux
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     April 10, 2023
 Link: US Fascism Is Spreading Under the Guise of “Patriotic Education”
Stephan:  

Americans just don’t seem to get that they are being played by a well-organized multi-aspect strategy designed to dismantle our democracy and turn America into an anocracy. It also seeks to transform our educational system from kindergarten to university in order to indoctrinate our children into a fascist worldview, thus preparing for the next generation. The Republican Party is just the cult manifestation of this strategy. This all dates back at least to the Reagan administration when this group changed the tax code so that a small group could become richer than anything ever seen before, then they started restructuring the courts. Next, they began what has become the Great Schism Trend. The only thing that can stop this is the American people voting Republicans out of office while democracy still exists. It is all going to depend on how the election of 2024 comes out.

Great Oak High School students leave campus in protest of the district’s ban on “critical race theory” curriculum at Patricia H. Birdsall Sports Park in Temecula, California, on December 16, 2022. Credit: Watchara Phomicinda / The Press-Enterprise / Getty

The relentless state-based attacks on Black people in the U.S. and the war being waged against public and higher education are not unrelated.

In the present political and ideological climate, far right political leaders, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) have declared a war on institutions of public and higher education, which they’ve identified as centers of “unpatriotic education.” Most far right Republicans fear higher education as a bulwark against their authoritarianism and hence see students as a threat to their propaganda machines and fascist politics. As a result, the right wing has kicked into overdrive in an attempt to target educational institutions as a site for policing dissent, eliminating unions, indoctrinating faculty and students, and for normalizing white Christian nationalism, white supremacy and pedagogies of repression.

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 10:32 am

    Socialism is more like the way a Democracy where everyone has equality, with every vote counting and every voice heard, and only the truth should be told by the Media.