Scott SoCal said:
Yes, of course. Sucks for me I had teachers that taught instead of indoctrinate.
Sure right from the mouth of the guy that was taught it's good
and right to take from the poor and give to the rich. Your world is one colossal propagandistic indoctrination into the (bad) ideology of the right wing agenda.
This is the indoctrination that the plutocracy has foisted upon America, that goes back to even before the criminal executions of Sacco and Vanzetti by the State, through the fanatical hysterics of McCarthy and Ayn Rand, and to the inhumanity of Reagan and the Neocons. And it has taken over even among many in the so called left of the government. This is also why the public school system in America is generally in such a deplorable state, why anything with the world
public in it is under ruthless assault and is being stripped of its financing, because the political class has allowed the private sector, for ideological reasons, to take over. Thus public schools are being replaced by ones being supplied with funds from the corporate universe to promote their ruthless indoctrination cause in making the nation's youth cogs in the wheel of its colossal business enterprise, lobotomized zombies of consumption and capitol, nothing else, which is passed of as their happiness; because if the public sector were allowed to foster it would undoubtedly think otherwise, in its interests, and pose a serious threat to the conflict of interests and corruption of this privatization of everything.
The most dangerous threat to democracy is allowing the plutocrats of the private business sector to have the necessary pressure to bear on the political class and first vilify and then take public funds away from the public schools, to then, through tax cuts and other incentives for the corporations, have the money redirected into a private school system that operates wholesale in their interests. But this is precisely what is taking place!
Anyone with a philosophical mind, with a viewpoint that even questions their cause, which is their indoctrination of the entire country into their private business agenda, is branded a socialist, or a communist, a dissident, a low life and a good for nothing fool, who is first ostracized and then tried and prosecuted, and usually put to death in some way or another; slowly in the form of a life-long and ultimately fatal illness, or else expeditiously through its judicial or military apparatus. That's the truth. This goes for heads of foreign states as well and their supporters. Their agenda leaves no room for disagreement and it has wiped out all critical thought and teaching in the schools, because it is threatening to their complete hegemony over everything,
literally everything, for which we don't have independent and free teachers anymore, which would be dangerous, but farm raised disseminators of the business mentality as is demonstrated by the complete disregard for intellectualism and culture in today's educational environment, to not besmirch the word
schools.
Your kind fears the independence and freedom of teachers, to instruct in ways that expose, challenge and obstruct the indoctrination work that the alpha class has enforced over society, and with which you have unquestioningly aligned yourself. You also believe that this makes you free, when in fact causes you to live in a rather unedifying state of most obsequious serfdom and conformism.
This is also why the conservative class harbors an outright hatred for intellectuals and the liberal newspapers, which it denounces as "enemies of the homeland".
PS: On the point about how to bring down the nation's debt, there are basically two viewpoints: the republican, which calls for massive and prolonged cuts for everything that's public; and the democratic, which places the highest burden on the rich by doing away with the Bush tax cuts and heavily increasing the fiscal responsibility of those who ran the debt up in the first place since the Clinton years.
As usual the dems will have to arrive at some compromise and, once again, the plutocracy will derive great advantage at the expense of society.
There are also basically two positions within the ideology of the state, which transcend its mere bipartisan political structure: namely the one that works toward building a world that is more just and egalitarian and one that,
de facto by its policies and premises, does just the opposite; and hence works unremittingly toward realizing a world that is more unjust, in-egalitarian and hierarchical. I don't see how these positions can be reconciled and really could not care less for making the compromises of a political-business arrangement that has long since been morally bankrupt. Its ultimately about reason and objectivity, over mystification and subjectivity. And I despise the hypocrisy of political correctness, which says that to disseminate information and teach means not taking a position about anything or having a bias in the classroom or in life.
PSS: To disagree and dissent are democratic rights and so is the right to communicate ideas, but what is happening is that the private sector wants to hold sovereignty even over the public debate, by demolishing all things public (schools, health care, public television, etcetera) and hence eliminating all competition, thus shaping the discussion to its image and likeness, to then pave the way for a society and a state that is completely controlled and organized by private interests. The work of
their indoctrination is nearly complete, as is evidenced by a disdain for all things culturally aligned with a public outlook and that inhibit an individual's freedom to have access to wealth without any social responsibility among the majority of the population, which the ideologues constantly package and propagandize as the "American Dream" and "Our Way of Life".
To top it all off, then there is is the huge problem in the American democracy of having a considerable aspect of the conservative class determining who gets elected to the White House in the republican party and who does not. Thus even the more moderate elements within the faction are essentially held hostage to them. They reside in the so called "moral majority" and whose political and economic outlooks couldn't be furhter in conflict with the teachings of the Christ, of whom they claim be devout worshipers and in whose example they claim to model their lives. The grotesqueness of the hypocrisy has no shame and knows no limits.
Let's, then, talk about
indoctrination.