Submission by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center
President Trump is making many valid changes. A major one is dismantling the politically deceptive Department of Education (something President Reagan also wanted to do), returning children’s learning back to the states and counties—where it belongs. The president has also eliminated the evolution-centric UNESCO education.
Now, if we are going to have any hope of finishing the job of removing the Marxist dumbing-down of our children, those states and counties must go further. They should destroy every textbook on every subject and start again from scratch. If (as is most likely the case) they do not, Trump’s action will be worthless—worse than worthless. The average parent will believe sound science, reason, and logic have returned to the classroom, when in fact they have not. This is political deception of the highest order, though visible in the left’s open opposition.
The same problem holds true with the great scam of climate change. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, knowing full well that the original study of “climate change,” written by numerous pseudo-scientists, was deliberately edited to scare the public. Many eminent scientists demanded their names be withdrawn; they refused to be used to promote one of the biggest lies foisted on the world’s population.
Despite this truth, the mainstream media, complicit in the scam, hid it from the masses. The global elite are still sounding the alarms, crying that the sky is falling, and too many citizens remain captive to the lie.
The people must be informed of the falsehoods they’ve been fed for more than 30 years. Yet it is hard to wrap your mind around the idea that almost everything you’ve been told—since kindergarten—is wrong. That the horrors you were warned about are, somehow, supposed to represent the truth.
It’s like when I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. A secretary was kind enough to fill me in on office chatter and “what was really going on.” After nine months, I learned she was a pathological liar. It was hard to go back and separate truth from falsehood. That’s what most people—those awake enough to realize they’ve been deceived—are dealing with now.
Consider the decades-long campaign against CO2. For years, we’ve been told it is dangerous, even though it is essential to life. Without it, we die, along with the plants and animals that sustain us. That is political deception on a monstrous scale.
Closer to home, a county mayor here in Tennessee wants to do the right thing, but he has clearly been indoctrinated—likely by the National Association of Counties or other NGOs that steer newly elected officials in the wrong direction. He recently announced his county’s 10-year plan, straight out of the Sustainable Development playbook, better described as UN-led control. He claims to have an open mind and wants to hear from constituents. That means we need to speak up. If we don’t, we are guilty of neglect.
I won’t even address the COVID lie here. Suffice it to say we have been fed deception after deception for decades. But as people wake up to one, and then another, they become more vigilant. They begin to verify before they accept. That is the first step to bringing reason and logic back into public life.
Once you wake up to one lie, your brain is less gullible the next time. And when many of us wake up to the lies and corruption, we are rightfully angry. As the famous movie line goes: “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”
But after yelling—or perhaps instead of yelling—those who are awakening have an obligation to act. They must help those of us who have been in this battle for decades put a stop to the lies. The surest way forward is to take back your city, county, and state.
It starts at the bottom, at the local level. President Trump can shut down the Department of Education or other agencies, but that alone won’t remove the deception from schools, offices, and even churches. Unless textbooks are replaced and teachers enlightened, real change won’t happen. For that, he depends on us.
Hillary Clinton once said, “It takes a village.” Close, but not quite. It takes an educated citizenry. We the people—those who have been watching and learning why our world is rotting from the inside out—must take charge. We must educate our educators, our mayors, and even our presidents. We have the information. We’ve been gathering it for decades. But information sitting on a shelf is useless. It must be used.
We still have time—before the fight escalates beyond truth and ideas to violence. Our children deserve to inherit a free world. Let’s make sure they do.
Wake up. Stand up. Meet with local officials. Speak out. Join forces to bring back the America of Washington and Jefferson.
Chesty Puller, the famous Marine general during the Korean War, once told his men at the frozen Chosin Reservoir: “Boys, we have them right where we want them. We are surrounded.”
This is America—and winning is the only way forward.
