“Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state. The state will take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing. Your child belongs to us already … what are you?”
– Adolf Hitler

Oftentimes when we see the headlines regarding Obama’s ever-growing list of abuses against the American people, we seem to be under the delusion that this is something that only happened in foreign countries in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s.

When we look back at the atrocities committed by Hitler, Mao Zedong, Stalin and Mussolini, we say, “That will never happen here.” We turn a blind eye and choose not to see the parallel between then and what is happening here through the “foreign to America’s Constitution” leader in the White House the American people tolerate.

For example, Mao, without regard to the laws, went to the young to have them uproot the capitalists, his “political opponents.”

Under Mussolini, you could not teach in school unless you carried the card of the Fascist Party.

To ensure that youth fully supported Communism, Stalin’s major vehicle of political education was through the Communist League of Youth, without which he would have never succeeded. Continue reading →