Ray9
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In the fall of 1963 some of us who were supposed to be headed for college had to choose our curriculum. Mine kept getting rejected because I was choosing easy courses so I could get it over with and I kept getting kicked out of school for having long hair. Finally a guidance councilor told me that I had the third highest IQ in the class and that I was lazy. He gave me three choices, physics, chemistry or comparative government. I took the comparative government.
He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.
Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.
We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.
The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.
Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.
The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.
America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.
He was right about the lazy part but that course had an impact on my thinking that has lasted a lifetime. Jack Mayes headed the class and to this day I don’t think the school could have picked a better person to do it. Mayes was typical of high school instructors of the times. He’d grown up during the Great Depression and like his contemporaries he knew that nothing that didn’t from hard work was worth anything.
Castro had reached out to the communists and the Cuban Missile Crisis had American citizens digging fallout shelters. The Korean War was just a decade old and Vietnam was lurking in the shadows. Mayes made it clear that we were to make up our own minds about the historical evidence presented.
We studied various forms of government from early Greek democracies to modern hippie communes and then the entire last half of the course focused on modern American democracy vs. Soviet/Chinese communism.
The consensus at the end was that democracy is exclusively exceptional and that it will prevail because the end does not justify the means and the collective wisdom of the people is superior to the directed oppression of the intellectual elite.
Unfortunately this is not how history has unfolded. Yes, the Soviet Union collapsed but it did not expire-it creeped into free societies on the campuses of colleges while it slowly and deliberately supplanted a free press with the targeted, divisive propaganda of political correctness.
The Eastern Bloc Nomenklatura now wears the clothes of the American Deep State and the plague of a world government is at our doorstep. Mayes never could have predicted that the US Constitution would come under attack from an underhanded US political establishment falling all over itself to throw it into the bonfire of global communism.
America is the last place on Earth where real democracy endures. When it’s gone here it’s gone forever.