The center-left in the United States is no longer a viable political force. Once among the largest segments in the political spectrum, it meekly surrendered to and has been essentially absorbed by the American Marxists. This was a realignment almost entirely due to the breathtaking level of gullibility and ignorance of ostensibly well-educated self-described liberals.

Over the years, this naïveté and obliviousness have been a source of amusement and head-shaking incredulity. However, these traits have now become so dominant among an ever-growing segment within American society that the future of this nation as a prosperous and freedom-loving country is in serious jeopardy.

There is little doubt that a major contributing factor to the accelerating ignorance of much of the citizenry can be traced back to a Marxist-leaning education establishment that, for the past fifty years, has been increasingly focused on indoctrination, not education.

Curricula that had been used for over a century in secondary and higher education and that were designed to foster appreciation of the nation’s founding tenets and the development of reason and independent thinking were deliberately abandoned. Instead, curricula were developed that fostered a herd mentality wherein being a mindless part of the designated in-crowd became the........

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