Suppose you learned that one in three young people is convinced the earth is flat. And that many believe the Moon landing was faked in a NASA studio.  Imagine you read that a third of young folks will tell you the Holocaust never happened.

Would this news disturb you? If it did, would you think our education system maybe has a few holes? After all, these people are not long out of school.  And a third of them amounts to many millions. You would not think loony cultists could capture that many minds.

Would you perhaps place some blame on social media? Knowing that they are the primary sources of news and information for millennials.

Perhaps you would blame time. The years that have passed. You know, young people know so little about World War II and the slaughter of Jews. And they were not around to follow the astronauts and their voyage on television.

That takes care of the Holocaust and Neil Armstrong. (Psst, millennials. He was the… Oh, never mind.) As for those believing the earth is flat, you could only blame ignorance.

Some recent surveys find one-third of American millennials (25 to 34 years old) have “favorable” feelings about communism. Think about that. Communism.

For sure, there are many culprits who contributed to these beliefs. Educators, for instance. Many millennials had teachers who failed to teach the evils of communism. Many had professors who praised communism. The profs downplayed the bad publicity communism earned. They claimed communism is good. But bad guys hijacked it in some countries. Gave it a bad name.

We had such idiots even from the 1930’s to the 50’s. Communism was alive and butchering then. Yet many profs, journalists, and Hollywood types of those years were gulled by the propaganda. They knelt at the communist altar. Claimed the USSR was nirvana.

Hell, we have profs today who sing communism’s merits. They are as demented as those who deny the Holocaust.

Too too harsh, Tom. After all, we always need to consider…

Bull-tweedie maximus!  We don’t need to consider anything other than communism’s utter failures. Anyone over 50 who praises communism belongs in a padded cell.

Free and informed people ought to agree upon a few things: Eggs don’t bounce. No bones in tripe. You can’t straighten bananas. And communism has been abominable.

The USSR adopted communism. It rammed it down the throats of its own people. And later down the throats of millions of semi-slaves.  In countries it took over after World War II. It sponsored and encouraged the spread of this disease to more countries.

Under its beloved communism the USSR butchered tens of millions of people. It imprisoned them within its borders. It flung countless folks into unspeakable gulags. It tortured them for speaking out. It deliberately starved them to force the state ownership of farming. It ruled by poisonous brutality.

China took up communism under Mao. Under that system it doubled up on the atrocities of the USSR. Mao’s regime tortured, savaged and murdered 50 or 60 million people. Today Chinese communists imprison over a million Muslims in concentration camps.

Cambodia’s communists loved what they saw in the USSR. They worshiped Mao as a prophet. In tribute, they embraced communism. And then went out and perpetrated one of the worst mass killings in history.

Cubans have exterminated thousands for their resistance to communism. Two million Cubans have fled that miserable failure of a country.

Oh, if you visit you are guided to parts of Cuba that look rundown but okay. But Cuba, by law, squelches freedoms you take for granted. It virtually imprisons its people. It tortures anyone who steps out of line.

And then we have the disgraceful North Koreans. I won’t waste the space to describe the depravities of their hell hole.

Communism is a despicable system.  It leads to mass killings, to starvation, to brutalities. It fosters ghastly sadism.

And one-third of our millennials think favorably of it? What does this say about our education system, then? Do millennials also love Bubonic Plague?

If this country can turn out such ignorance we ought to be turning our education system upside down. Its wheels have fallen off.

To use medical analogies, the system needs a purge. A total colonoscopy. And the profs and teachers who encourage students to look favorably upon communism deserve lobotomies. In truth, any freedom-loving person should gag at the mention of communism. No system could be more vile.

If we cannot educate our young people in the atrocities of communism we might as well bring back witch burning, worshiping of goat dung and the like. And while we are at it, let’s give the Nobel Peace Prize to Hitler posthumously. After all, we always need to consider…

From Tom…as in Morgan.

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