{"id":561933,"date":"2021-06-12T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T16:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=561933"},"modified":"2021-06-12T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T16:06:39","slug":"prager-the-single-best-thing-americans-can-do-to-retake-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-the-single-best-thing-americans-can-do-to-retake-america\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAGER: The Single Best Thing Americans Can Do To Retake America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprager-the-single-best-thing-americans-can-do-to-retake-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=561933&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3362846D-2775-4AB6-976C-679CAC146ED0-1200x800-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The most frequent question people pose to me is: What can I\/we do to fight back against the nihilistic anti-American destruction of virtually all the country\u2019s major institutions?<\/p>\n<p>There is an answer.<\/p>\n<p>The single best thing Americans can do to counter the left-wing attack on America \u2014 against its freedoms, its schools, its families, its children, its governmental institutions, its sports, its news and entertainment media, its medical establishment, the CIA, the FBI, the State Department and the military \u2014 is to take their children out of America\u2019s schools.<\/p>\n<p>Other than in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), the vast majority of America\u2019s elementary schools, high schools, colleges, and universities teach your child or grandchild almost nothing important; prematurely sexualize them, thereby robbing them of their innocence; and harm them intellectually and morally. They rarely teach them, for example, art or music because they are too busy teaching them race-centered hatred of whites, of America and of America\u2019s values. Sending your child(ren) to most American schools is playing Russian roulette with their values \u2014 but unlike the gun in Russian roulette, which has a bullet in only one of its six chambers, the schools\u2019 guns hold four or five bullets.<\/p>\n<p>In many elementary schools, your child is taught that gender is chosen and that there is no difference between boys and girls (in a growing number of schools, the teachers are told not to call their students \u201cboys and girls\u201d); they are taught about masturbation; and many children from first grade on attend \u201cDrag Queen Story Hour,\u201d wherein an obvious man wearing women\u2019s clothing, garish makeup, and a wig entertains them.<\/p>\n<p>Given that all this is well-known, why do any nonleft \u2014 meaning, liberal or conservative \u2014 parents send their children to an American school?<\/p>\n<p>One reason is they are in denial. Many parents do not want to know what their children are being taught and the consequent damage done to them. They don\u2019t really believe school(s) will ruin their child, let alone their child\u2019s relationship with them.<\/p>\n<p>These parents should speak to any of the millions \u2014 yes, millions \u2014 of Americans whose children have contempt for America, for free speech and for their parents as a result of attending an American college or even high school. I meet such people at every speech I give, and I speak to them regularly on my radio show. Ask these parents, if they could redo their lives, whether they would keep their child in school.<\/p>\n<p>A second reason is they feel they have no choice. If they remove their child from the local public or private school (most private schools are just as committed to anti-American indoctrination over education as public schools), what will they do with their child? They often cannot find a local school that does not harm their child. They cannot necessarily even rely on Christian or Jewish schools. Most of them are as \u201cwoke\u201d as most secular schools. And if they do find a school that teaches rather than poisons, they may not be able to afford the tuition.<\/p>\n<p>The only other option, then, is to home-school one\u2019s child. The problem is that many parents assume this is essentially impossible. For one thing, they assume that one of the parents would have to leave his or her work, which would mean a serious reduction in the family\u2019s income. In addition, home-schooling strikes most people as simply too daunting a task, even if they could afford to take it on.<\/p>\n<p>Neither fear is entirely justified. It is true that, at least at the outset, a working parent may have to cut back from full-time work, and it is true that no matter what the family\u2019s financial condition, there are challenges to taking one\u2019s children out of school and home-schooling them.<\/p>\n<p>But given the low intellectual state of most American schools, the damage they do to young children\u2019s innocence and the anti-American, anti-white, anti-Western indoctrination in most schools, if you are a parent of school-age children, what is your choice?<\/p>\n<p>Other than a) finding a good school that b) you can afford, you have no other choice. You are fooling yourself if you think the odds are that after attending American schools from kindergarten through college (not to mention through graduate school), your child will turn out well-educated, intellectually alive, rational, kind, happy, well-adjusted, grateful to be American, and respectful of you and your values.<\/p>\n<p>While there are some wonderful young Americans who recently attended American schools, and there are some lost souls who were home-schooled, American schools are largely producing the following:<\/p>\n<p>Poorly educated students. Ask your college son or daughter to diagram a sentence; identify Joseph Stalin, \u201cThe Gulag Archipelago\u201d or the Soviet Union; name the branches of the American government; identify \u2014 or just spell \u2014 Beethoven; date the Civil War; identify the Holocaust; and name which sentence is correct \u2014 \u201cHe gave the book to my friend and me\u201d or, \u201cHe gave the book to my friend and I.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Angry young people. Why wouldn\u2019t they be? First, they graduate college with a huge load of debt, having received almost nothing useful for their money. Second, if they are anything other than a white heterosexual Christian male, they have been taught to regard themselves as victims of oppression. Third, their future is so bleak they may not even have one: They are threatened with extinction by climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The single best thing Americans can do to fight the left-wing destruction of the country is to withdraw from the \u201ceducational\u201d system that is actively, deliberately miseducating them by the tens of millions. If millions of American parents did so, the country would turn around as fast as you could say \u201cteachers unions.\u201d If they don\u2019t, their children will continue being used as guinea pigs in the Left\u2019s sick and dystopian experiment.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is \u201cThe Rational Bible,\u201d a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, \u201cNo Safe Spaces,\u201d was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most frequent question people pose to me is: What can I\/we do to fight back against the nihilistic anti-American destruction of virtually all the country\u2019s major institutions?There is an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280106,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3362846D-2775-4AB6-976C-679CAC146ED0-1200x800-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"PRAGER: The Single Best Thing Americans Can Do To Retake America","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3362846D-2775-4AB6-976C-679CAC146ED0-1200x800-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"PRAGER: The Single Best Thing Americans Can Do To Retake America","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}