“How would you characterize this moment?” CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asked Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian (and occasional Biden advisor) Jon Meacham.
“I think you have a dedicated minority of the population — it was the secessionist slave-holding interests in the 1850s,” responded Meacham. “Today, it is this vast swath of people who have found a home in the Republican Party, who are no longer part of a coherent and constructive and good-intentioned conversation about the future of the country.”
Meacham then posited that “a democracy fundamentally depends on our capacity to see each other not as adversaries — or heathen — but as neighbors.”
Wait . . . did the tenured television expert say our whole system relies on not considering those you disagree with politically as “the other,” just mere seconds after comparing a “vast swath” of Republicans to slaveholders and essentially accusing them of being incoherent, destructive, and evil?
While Meacham bemoaned “these” otherwise undefined Republicans, CNN flashed pictures of the January 6th rioters on the screen. Hmmm. Obviously with the best of intentions.
Next, Zakaria sought the input of another Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin . . . also a well-known plagiarist.
“The answer” to seeing folks as this “other,” according to Goodwin? “I believe it’s national service,” she argued. “You get people from the city to the country, country to the city, you begin to create a new generation that has shared values.”
She’s delusional, but serious.*
Notice that her Pulitzer Prize-winning psychopathy would force millions of young (read: less powerful) citizens into government make-work, to be directed and “re-educated” by Washington-based experts . . . like Goodwin (and Meacham).
The other thing? Ironically, the program aired on Independence Day.
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* Last week, in a New York Times op-ed, Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway urged “compulsory national service for all young people — with no exceptions.” He contends forcing young people out of their chosen life paths will “build bridges between people” and “shore up our fragile communities.”
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Nothing like a draft and an ongoing war to unite the country.
Goodwin is speaking to a national indoctrination program of the youth, to acquire the minds of those who escaped the urban public education programs and/or been raised in families adhering and teaching the Judeo/Christian morality.
National service is especially required for those not voluntarily advancing their indoctrination by attending college.
All must be cleansed of the morals and principals this country was founded upon (and required to continue successfully).
The every individual must succumb to the State, and be taught to believe the State, the collective, is the diety, defines morality and secular humanism is the only “true” belief.
That is the present war, our cultural revolution – which seeks to convert the county to situational ethics and total governmental authority.
As many as possible must come to understand what is planned and happening or the Revolution will continue and succeed, ruining the grandest experiment in governance ever attempted.
Weren’t the insurrectionists on Jan 6th Republicans? What morals and principles were they exhibiting?
Actually the “insurrectionists” were Antifa and FBI agents or informants.
Did you make it to high school? Stupid is as stupid says!
These Pulitzer winners show just how worthless that award has become.
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
You must be super dangerous!