Reading, Writing and Redistribution By Andrew Puzder
It’s no secret that today’s college campuses are hotbeds of radicalism. Polls confirm that millennials approve of socialism, and viral videos documenting the outrage spilling out of these “safe spaces” regularly make the news. But the indoctrination of American youth begins, in many cases, well before they ever set foot on a college campus.
Today, subtle and not-so-subtle attacks on capitalism, profit, and economic success occur at all levels of education. Even our youngest students get a daily dosage of anti-capitalist/pro-socialist thought in the classroom. It shouldn’t come as a surprise considering who’s doing the teaching. American teachers are in effect a left-wing interest group and make up a significant part of the Democratic voter coalition.
The nation’s largest teacher’s union, the National Education Association (NEA), made more than $20 million in political contributions in 2015 and 2016, with 90 percent of that amount going to Democrats or left-wing causes. The union believes universal health-care coverage is a “moral imperative” and that “education advocacy and social justice advocacy go hand in hand.”
The second-largest teacher’s union, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), donated $12.4 million during the 2015 to 2016 political cycle, with 99.6 percent going to Democrats or liberal causes, and passed a resolution to “take on Wall Street” and “too-big-to-fail banks.”
These days an entire infrastructure exists for left-wing teachers to indoctrinate students in their delusions. More than a dozen national or regional organizations exist to provide guidance and lesson plans to high-school and middle-school teachers interested in teaching students about social justice……
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