In 'Language and Human Development' (1), I argued that the child from age 2 to about 12 is in an information absorption state, or in more modern jargon, is programmable. Even though, as I then argued, the adolescent teenager becomes somewhat rebellious and a know-it-all, what he or she thinks they know is mostly what has been programmed during the learning period. In mature homogeneous societies this programming of the religious and cultural mores, and the general knowledge of the society, plays a major role in its stability.
Unfortunately, this programmable aspect of the human child plays a negative role in the current battle between the political Left and Western Civilization. In a democracy the majority of voters determine what the government does. Since by definition a half of all voters are below the median in intelligence, co opting the support of the lower half can be a winning strategy for controlling the government. This is the bread and butter of the Left, which these days is the Democrat Party.
The founders of our government knew this and alluded to 'Qualifications' to vote for the only direct representatives of the people – the House of Representatives. Presumably they hoped that even the lower half of the qualified voters would be intelligent and knowledgeable enough to make reasonable choices for their representatives. But inexplicably they left it up to the States to determine these 'Qualifications' for even the Federal elections. This is the Achilles Heel of our Constitution. In the last two centuries Constitutional Amendments have not only resulted in the Senate and even the Presidency determined by the popular vote (with a minor peculiarity resulting from the Electoral College), but in addition the States have eliminated any semblance of qualifications for voting. The current crop of elected Democrat politicians leave little doubt that, without 'Qualifications', the lower half of the electorate is not competent to vote for their government, or even their representatives.
The Left's Marxist movement is now over a century old. Its strategy at first was to co-opt the blue-collar workers by infiltrating the labor unions. This was less successful than they had hoped, perhaps because Western Civilization workers were reluctant to cede total control to the government. It helped that the rate of collapse of communist experiments across the globe woke up too many 'low information voters' (Rush Limbaugh's favorite term).
During the mid 20th century the success of several despots in co-opting the youth – Hitler's Brown Shirts, Mao's Red Guard, etc. – led the Left to change their focus to the educational systems. This approach has the advantage that, as described above, the child is innately programmable until puberty, and that programming is almost impossible to undo.
Using the educational systems to program the youth is almost perfect, but a problem remained. The nuclear family can, if aware of the problem, block the ideological programming of the schools. Thus the Left launched a parallel effort to augment the takeover of the educational systems with the destruction of the nuclear family. Feminism pushed the married female to get a job and let professional baby sitters raise the young. This effectively blocked most efforts by the family to interfere with the programming of the young by the Left. The degree of support of socialism by the younger generations is testimony to the effectiveness of the Left's current game plan.
Charlie Kirk was a serious threat to the Left's indoctrination of the young. Charlie had to go. However, assassinating Charlie may have been the wrong strategy for nullifying his efforts. By making him a martyr they have lost significantly more ground with the young than they have gained. Fortunately, intelligence has never been the long suit of the Left.
(1) Musings and Rants - 1985-2016, Marcus Everett, CKCPC3 Publishing, Nowata OK
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