Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Crossroads IRL" channel.

  1. It's the "Long March" through our educational institutions. The Soviets made it impossible for anybody to openly support socialism. There was just no hiding the Gulag, and no stopping Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago." Since you couldn't rationally defend communism or its re-branded socialism, the idea was to de-construct capitalism. "Look at how unfettered capitalism has run amuck! Look at how people live in poverty!" It was never capitalism that was being criticized, but fascist features that crept in when big corporations learned how to manipulate the rule set at the source by bribing Congress and the regulatory agencies created to regulate them. This became what is known as "crony capitalism," which isn't free-market capitalism, at all; rather, it is capitalism with a rule set that is distorted by a small number of very powerful interests and interest groups, what we call "public-private partnerships," today, with a straight face. Public-private partnerships and regulatory capture creates, in essence, a fascist system, in which everything is under the government, nothing is outside of government, and no one may be against the government (according to Mussolini). What people don't understand is that communism = socialism = fascism. They're all the same thing, with different brand names and all brands claiming to be better than all other brands. But functionally identical: You will get what the government gives you and you will obey the government without question in all things. This sounds a lot like an atheist's version of "Divine Right of Kings," back in the old days of monarchy. Different labels. The same exact "lords and ladies telling the serfs what to do and the serfs better darn well be happy and better darn well OBEY." So aristocracy = communism = fascism = socialism. Functionally identical. Just applied with modern tools and modern terminology but the same fundamental idea: The individual must give up all autonomy and property to the collective, and the collective will decide what to give to the individual, if they feel like it, and when they get around to it.
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  2. Thomas Sowell picked up where Ayn Rand left off, and he's a lot more accessible to the masses than Ayn Rand, who was a pure intellectual and pretty neurotic.
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  3. It's inevitable by the nature of public schools. Everybody's paycheck depends on political decisions. That's where it starts. "How could you betray us by voting Republican? You KNOW they want to take OUR MONEY!"
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  4.  @Bruce-h8t  Just get the government OUT OF EDUCATION and make these institutions compete for customer dollars rather than government dollars. Parents care a whole lot more about the quality and pricing of education than any bureaucrats. "Public education" takes price valuation and quality control right out of the picture. They aren't pleasing their clients. They're pleasing the government bureaucrats who can de-certify an institution for federal financial aid if they don't toe the political line being set forth by a handful of psychopaths in government.
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